sexual desire

Example Sentences

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Asexuality includes a spectrum of people who experience little to no sexual desire.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Gut bacteria can even affect your mental state by producing mood-altering neurotransmitters like dopamine, which regulates pleasure, learning and motivation, and serotonin, which plays a role in happiness, appetite and sexual desire.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2022

Asexuality reveals the flaws of a society based so deeply on sexual desire.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2020

“Dracula” has been read as a metaphor for capitalism, colonialism, sexual desire, anxieties around the New Woman.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2020

Like not a few of those seduced by the wild, McCandless seems to have been driven by a variety of lust that supplanted sexual desire.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer