SEXUALITY


Meaning of SEXUALITY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

female

I knew how to drop into the stereotypes we learn as female sexuality ....

Indeed, this intelligent and controlled female sexuality is what makes human communities possible.

What is strikingly absent in nineteenth-century thought is any concept of female sexuality which is independent of men's.

They seem fortunate to some because they are left to pursue young women without being caught in the coils of female sexuality .

It was female sexuality that constituted the social problem, because through it the race was perpetuated.

Rather than a brief performance, female sexuality is a long, unfolding process.

Blackwell's radical ideas point to the tentative beginnings of a discourse on active female sexuality .

In the 1860s medical interventions into the contagious diseases debate polarized earlier representations of female sexuality .

human

And secondly, propositions about human sexuality in general, and its relationship to the development of human civilizations.

The answers come from a variety of professionals who deal with human development and sexuality .

But it seems that information technology is affecting human sexuality , too.

Over the next three decades, many theologians took a fresh look at the whole subject of human sexuality .

male

Max breathed out powerful male sexuality in every movement.

A dread of black male sexuality remains.

It was the language of purity which mobilized many women to develop a trenchant critique of male sexuality .

And it would give us a new understanding of the statues with phallic necks or other representations of male sexuality .

He was standing close, holding her breathless with his gaze, every inch of him exuding male sexuality .

Untamed, they can indulge their short-term and promiscuous male sexuality and many do.

It needed to focus on the reform of male sexuality and the improvement of working-class morals.

She is in constant pursuit of ways in which to accentuate male sexuality and to provide men with comfortable clothes.

strong

Harriet Walter plays her excellently as a woman who combines a strong sexuality with a defiant nobility of character.

At its strongest , sexuality within holy matrimony was only justified as a necessary part of reproduction.

■ VERB

express

Society is ambivalent about recognising that elderly people have a legitimate wish to continue to express their sexuality in physical ways.

But physical disabilities can make it difficult for you to express your sexuality .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a study of human sexuality

Gradually he came to understand and accept his own sexuality .

She has written a fascinating book on female sexuality .

Teenagers are often confused about their sexuality , for example whether they are gay or straight.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But escalation is not usually associated with adult sexuality .

Do you think specific arts events should receive public funding, or are you unhappy about gay sexuality being publicised.

One account specifies reproduction as a sexuality as the prime cosmogonic factor.

Society is ambivalent about recognising that elderly people have a legitimate wish to continue to express their sexuality in physical ways.

The question of sexuality further complicates racialized encounters, such as racial harassment and violence.

Their dangerous, uncontrolled sexuality is destined to be muted by the life-long practice of inhuman austerities and self-denial.

They told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the scandal amounted to an abuse of power, not sexuality .

With their mix of male and female imagery, snakes are sexuality incarnate.

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