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

In January 2006, Benedict issued his first encyclical, “God Is Love,” in which he endorsed love between man and woman, including erotic love, if within marriage and for the purpose of creating children.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 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