sexual desire
Example Sentences
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Asexuality includes a spectrum of people who experience little to no sexual desire.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
I reached out to Sari van Anders, a professor of psychology, gender studies and neuroscience at Queen’s University in Canada, whose research interests include connections between women’s sexual desire and testosterone.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021
“Dracula” has been read as a metaphor for capitalism, colonialism, sexual desire, anxieties around the New Woman.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2020
A more holistic approach would address the different ways in which gender, sexuality and sexual desire intersect with racial and socioeconomic backgrounds to influence someone’s sexual decision-making.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 7, 2018
Like not a few of those seduced by the wild, McCandless seems to have been driven by a variety of lust that supplanted sexual desire.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
