sexual attraction

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This exclusion extends beyond the doctor’s office: Assumptions that all people experience sexual attraction and romantic desires, also known as allonormativity, are embedded in housing, taxing and marital systems.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2024

Bisexual — a person who has emotional, romantic or sexual attraction for a person of more than one gender.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Aromantic is an umbrella term used by people who don't typically experience romantic attraction, while somebody who is asexual does not experience sexual attraction to anyone.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2023

“And what is sweeter than a romance based on friendship, not initially based on a physical or sexual attraction, but on a deep connection?”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023

By that sentence, Tolstoy meant that, in order to be happy, a marriage must succeed in many different respects: sexual attraction, agreement about money, child discipline, religion, in-laws, and other vital issues.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond