sex drive
Example Sentences
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Prof Grubin said hormonal medications have "pretty serious side effects" and "somebody would have to really want to get their sex drive under control to agree to be on those drugs".
From BBC ● May 22, 2025
In 1952 he was convicted of “gross indecency” over his relationship with another man, stripped of his security clearance and forced to take estrogen to neutralize his sex drive.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
It used to be called the “master gland” because it secretes the hormones that run many of the body’s functions: growth, metabolism, lactation, sex drive and reproduction.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022
“The reality of motherhood,” she writes, “is incontinence, boredom, weight gain, saggy breasts, depression, the end of romance, lack of sleep, dumbing down, career downturn, loss of sex drive, poverty, exhaustion and lack of fulfilment.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2017
Richardson’s view of Nietzsche’s doctrine of the will to power is this: Every person is made up of a bundle of “drives” – sex drive, hunger drive, drive for knowledge, and so on.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2012
