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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] surveys men’s sexual habits and performance. [Amer. Pop. Cult.: Misc.] Van de Velde study of the physiology and technique of marital sex. [Pop. Cult.: Misc.] popular 20th-century sex manual. [Misc.: Dr. Alex Comfort The Joy of Sex in Weiss, 239] pioneer explorations of sexual behavior based on interviews with 100,000 men and women. [Pop. Cult.: Misc.] published a study of sexual performance under laboratory conditions. [Sexology: Masters and Johnson Human Sexual Response in Weiss, 214]
his Oedipus complex makes erotic fulfillment impossible. [Br. Lit.: D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers in Magill I, 913] seven-volume Ellis work revolutionized attitudes toward sex and sexual problems. [Pop. Cult.: Misc.] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. |
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