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

“Dracula” has been read as a metaphor for capitalism, colonialism, sexual desire, anxieties around the New Woman.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2020

And it felt like my valid criticism of the way men were treating me had translated as lack of sexual desire.

From Slate • Oct. 19, 2018

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