erotic

Example Sentences

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“In the literary texts that we have, female gladiators are not described in any kind of an erotic context,” Anna McCollough, an Ohio State researcher, told LiveScience in 2012.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2024

Morgan Fairchild, who played Perry's on-screen mother and erotic novel writer Nora Bing, said: "I'm heartbroken about the untimely death of my 'son', Matthew Perry."

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2023

Note that I did not say that any of it was erotic.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2023

However informed by Hitchcock, “Decision to Leave” is pure Park Chan-wook — his earlier movies include the original “Oldboy” and the erotic thriller “The Handmaiden” — through and through in form, style and temperament.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

It was not an erotic love, but a love of shared madness, of conversations that were electric and boundless, of ambitions that ran beyond realities.*

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee