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
“Dracula” has been read as a metaphor for capitalism, colonialism, sexual desire, anxieties around the New Woman.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2020
A more holistic approach would address the different ways in which gender, sexuality and sexual desire intersect with racial and socioeconomic backgrounds to influence someone’s sexual decision-making.
From Scientific American • Aug. 7, 2018
A century later, a superbly realized Henry James wrestles with the essential chilliness of his vocation as a writer and his absence of sexual desire for the woman who is his soul mate.
From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2018
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
