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sexless
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sexless
having or showing no sexual differentiation


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After stating that the answer to the family secret came to her in an epiphany--"In a split second I knew what it was, in a split second of hate and love I knew w hat it was"--Ursa gives that answer in a highly ambiguous way: "A moment of pleasure and excruciating pain at the same time, a moment of broken skin but not sexlessness, a moment just before sexlessness, a moment that stops just before sexlessness, a moment that stops before it breaks the skin" (184).
The word "gender" is a term only for the grammatical classification of words, and includes neuter gender or sexlessness (see an unexpurgated OED), whereas there is no neuter gender in the sexes, only male or female.
I hate that word," he says, "because androgyny implies sexlessness, and I'm all for--and have built my career on--clothes that are sexy.
 
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