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sexual desire

NOUN
concupiscence
Synonyms




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

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2023

I reached out to Sari van Anders, a professor of psychology, gender studies and neuroscience at Queen’s University in Canada, whose research interests include connections between women’s sexual desire and testosterone.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021

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

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2020

Fleabag originated at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival when Phoebe Waller-Bridge delivered a funny, frank one-woman show about sexual desire and grief, earning her multiple Edinburgh Festival Fringe awards.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 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




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