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

How do demographic features such as age and sex drive this heterogeneity?

From Salon • Apr. 9, 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

Zoologists have long argued the panda’s reputation for a low sex drive was misleading because it was based solely on captive animals.

From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2020