eroticism
Example Sentences
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While many in the ace community are sex-positive without necessarily wanting to have sex themselves, sometimes queerness gets reduced to an eroticism that leaves out ace identities, she said.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2024
A vast Indian literature attests to mutably gendered men and women, elite as well as folk traditions of androgyny and same-sex eroticism.
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2018
But Dalí's interests went beyond eroticism and the human form, straying into memory, religion and even the world of science.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2017
Our attitudes about its presence or absence indirectly reflect all manner of viewpoints and hang-ups connected to taste, class, ethnicity, modesty, eroticism, and hygiene.
From Slate • Jul. 9, 2014
The lights were on, as usual, since Serena Joy always avoided anything that would have created an aura of romance or eroticism, however slight: overhead lights, harsh despite the canopy.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
