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Answer for the clue "Like much of Shakespeare's and Sappho's love poetry ", 10 letters:
homoerotic

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Word definitions for homoerotic in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also homo-erotic , 1916, from homo- (2) "homosexual" + erotic .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Arousing a homosexual desire. 2 Pertaining to homosexual love or desire 3 homosexual

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or concerning homosexual love

Usage examples of homoerotic.

The text attempts manfully to marginalize the homoerotic element, but cannot quite control it.

The text also represses homoerotic and oedipal desire and connects the two.

If this carries a charge of homoerotic attachment, well then, so much the better.

But it takes something more than garish action with homoerotic undertones to hold my interest for two long hours.

During recent decades, homosexual love stories and homoerotic fiction have come out of the closet.

The plan itself was simple-positive reinforcement delivered contingent upon heterosexually induced arousal and punishment administered as a consequence of exposure to homoerotic material.

In the sensational neoclassical gymnasium he thought he saw them lurking behind the homoerotic Greek bronzes.

Enjoy this nibble of a savory homoerotic delight, TASTE THIS by Leigh Ellwood, available May 23, 2006 at Samhain Publishing.

The plan itself was simple—positive reinforcement delivered contingent upon heterosexually induced arousal and punishment administered as a consequence of exposure to homoerotic material.

So long as my circumstances were as they were, he said, and my motives remained free of perversion, he saw little to choose between auto and homoerotic activity: masturbation, while more normal in the eyes of most New Tammanians and less liable to cause public embarrassment, carried its dangers in the same single-handedness that recommended it: loveless and reclusive, it fed the fantasies of the timid and could aggravate any tendencies to impotence or withdrawal from engagement with others -- narcissism and schizophrenia, he asserted, were the masturbator's inclinations in the realm of psychopathy.