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sexuality [‚sek·shə′wal·əd·ē]
(biology)
The sum of a person's sexual attributes, behavior, and tendencies.
The psychological and physiological sexual impulses whose satisfaction affords pleasure.
(psychology)
The quality of being sexual, or the degree of a person's sexual attributes, attractiveness, and drives.
Sexuality
Flowers of Evil, The
thoroughly explore the possibilities of vice, depravity, and sin. [Fr. Poetry: Baudelaire The Flowers of Evil in Magill III, 399]
Hite Report
surveys men’s sexual habits and performance. [Amer. Pop. Cult.: Misc.]
Ideal Marriage
Van de Velde study of the physiology and technique of marital sex. [Pop. Cult.: Misc.]
Joy of Sex, The
popular 20th-century sex manual. [Misc.: Dr. Alex Comfort The Joy of Sex in Weiss, 239]
Kinsey reports
pioneer explorations of sexual behavior based on interviews with 100,000 men and women. [Pop. Cult.: Misc.]
Masters and Johnson
published a study of sexual performance under laboratory conditions. [Sexology: Masters and Johnson Human Sexual Response in Weiss, 214]
Morel, Paul
his Oedipus complex makes erotic fulfillment impossible. [Br. Lit.: D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers in Magill I, 913]
Psychology of Sex, The
seven-volume Ellis work revolutionized attitudes toward sex and sexual problems. [Pop. Cult.: Misc.]
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They both had a vulgar facetiousness which tickled her simple sense of humour, and a certain coarseness of nature; but what took her perhaps was the blatant sexuality which was their most marked characteristic.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Very much indeed of what we call moral education, he said, is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.
The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context
 
 
 
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