adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sexual attack
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There was no indication of a sexual attack.
a sexual obsession
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Sexual obsessions can take many forms.
a sexual relationship
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He admitted having a sexual relationship with a patient.
a sexual taboo
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The old sexual taboos had disappeared.
a sexual/biological urge
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Most of us feel the biological urge to reproduce.
a sexual/indecent assault
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Women who have suffered serious sexual assault are offered support and counselling.
physical/sexual/racial abuse
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Many children suffer racial abuse at school.
political/racial/sexual etc oppression
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They suffered years of political oppression.
racial/sexual equality
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The minister is a well-known campaigner for racial equality.
racial/sexual etc overtones
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football songs with violent overtones
sex/sexual discrimination ( also gender discrimination formal )
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She claimed she’d been the victim of sex discrimination.
sexual advances
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The witness said that he ‘went berserk’ when she rejected his sexual advances .
sexual behaviour
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a survey of human sexual behaviour
sexual conduct
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The politician’s sexual conduct had caused scandal.
sexual encounters (= occasions when people have sex )
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casual sexual encounters
sexual exploitation
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The film industry thrives on the sexual exploitation of women.
sexual habits (= what you normally do in sexual relationships )
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a survey of the sexual habits of gay men
sexual harassment
sexual health
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The programme aims to educate teenagers about sexual health.
sexual intercourse
sexual jealousy (= jealousy caused by sexual desire )
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Sexual jealousy is a common motive for murder.
sexual love
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Venus was the Roman goddess of sexual love.
sexual morality
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sexual morality
sexual orientation
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people of different sexual orientations
sexual politics
sexual repression
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sexual repression
sexual reproduction
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sexual reproduction
sexual/emotional/physical maturity
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He lacks the emotional maturity to appreciate poetry.
sexual/gender stereotypes
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Feminists justifiably object to these sexual stereotypes.
sexual/racial harassment (= because of someone’s sex or race )
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We need effective strategies to combat sexual harassment in the workplace.
sexual/reproductive/sex organs
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the male and female sexual organs
social/cultural/sexual etc revolution
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the biggest social revolution we have had in this country
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the sexual revolution of the 1960s
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have (sexual) relations (with sb)
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How have relations between fellow workers changed in the flexible workplace?
sexual orientation
sexual preference
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sexual inequality exists, to some degree, in every society.
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sexual relationships
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sexual reproduction
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Birds have developed a sexual difference in the colours of their feathers.
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Dr Ruth offers advice on sexual problems.
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He had to admit that his feelings for her were mostly sexual .
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Herpes is a disease passed on by sexual contact.
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It's important to take your partner's sexual needs into consideration.
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Men say that they are confused by today's sexual politics in the workplace.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All this was to feed into the stream of sexual radicalism in the early twentieth century.
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Californians voted heavily against recognising gay marriages in what was widely seen as a test of the state's sexual climate.
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The San Francisco that you have slowly and faithfully trained me to know and adore cares nothing for sexual orientation.