What is "nonsexual"

Usage examples of "nonsexual".

A fetishist has been classically defined as a person who derives sexual gratification from a nonsexual part of the body or an inanimate object.

A supposed difference is that the vibrator has been specifically designed for sexual purposes, whereas the shoe is a nonsexual object that has been imbued with erotic qualities by the fetishist.

It seems that it is the attribution of erotic qualities to a nonsexual object, and the subsequent act of masturbation with that object, that constitutes the charge of fetishism.

Late-nineteenth-century sexual theorists appropriated the concept of religious fetishism to describe the condition in which a person achieves sexual gratification from an inanimate object or a nonsexual body part rather than from another person.

The definition of sexual fetishism also features the rather odd premise that there are sexual and nonsexual parts of the body.

Clinton, along with the societal cross-dressing social revolutionaries who thrived under his leadership, acted immorally in many nonsexual arenas.

In the lake the land-dwelling Makiem could wet down their bodies as needed, swim underwater for long periods for recreation, and there, for one glorious week a year, the otherwise nonsexual Makiem bred.

Perhaps with potential danger all around them, a simple nonsexual contact from a friend was something he needed right now, too.

I catch them tonguing down in the halls, that I remember this fact: I am his first nonsexual female friend.

By the time they reached the Temple of Birth the two women could hardly think of anything nonsexual, and the internal physical and mental pressure was almost unbearable.

He picked up the paint can and held it in front of himself while he tried to think mundane, nonsexual thoughts.

Idly he stroked her body in a tender but nonsexual way, his hand traveling lightly along her flanks, her belly, her cheeks, a purely esthetic enjoyment, simply enjoying the smoothness of her, the firmness of her skin and the taut flesh and muscle beneath it, the way he might stroke a finely carved statuette, or a thoroughbred racing-bandar, or a perfectly thrown porcelain bowl.

It was an insult to insist on modesty in a nonsexual situation among most of the fey, certainly among the sidhe.

I appreciate that there are types of nonsexual love among your people.

Gendibal did not see Novi again till after dinnertime, at which time she was brought to him by the woman to whom he had endlessly explained the situation-at least, the nonsexual character of the situation.