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

Asexuality reveals the flaws of a society based so deeply on sexual desire.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2020

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

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2020

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