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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sexuality
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sexuality

Sexuality \Sex`u*al"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.
--Lindley.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sexuality

1789, "action or fact of being sexual;" see sexual + -ity. Meaning "capability of sexual feelings" is from 1879. Meaning "sexual identity" is by 1980.

Wiktionary
sexuality

n. 1 (rfex) that which is characterized or distinguished by sex 2 (rfex) sexual activity 3 (rfex) the concern with, or interest in sexual activity 4 (rfex) sexual potency 5 (rfex) sexual orientation 6 (rfex) sexual identity, gender 7 (rfex) sexual receptivity

WordNet
sexuality

n. the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus" [syn: sex, gender]

Wikipedia
Sexuality (album)

Sexuality is the third studio album by French artist Sébastien Tellier, released on 25 February 2008. The album was produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, who is best known as one of the members of Daft Punk.

Sexuality (disambiguation)

Human sexuality is the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses.

Sexuality may also refer to:

  • Sexuality (biology)
    • Animal sexuality
    • Plant sexuality
    • Sexuality of fungi
  • Sexual attractiveness
  • Sexual identity
  • Sexual orientation
  • "Sexuality" (Prince song) (1981)
  • "Sexuality" (Billy Bragg song)
  • Sexuality (album), an album by Sébastien Tellier
  • Sexualities (journal), a peer-reviewed academic journal on sociology
Sexuality (Prince song)

"Sexuality" is the second track on Prince's 1981 album, Controversy. The song was also released as a single in Germany, Japan and Australia.

"Sexuality" is a fast-paced track, built around a synth bass line and drum machines. Much like " Controversy", a funky rhythm guitar is used throughout the song with brief stabs of rock thrown in. Similar to the song " Uptown", Prince describes a society free from prejudice as a "New Breed". The political number also takes jabs at tourists and the sensationalism of television.

Prince reused the "Sexuality" line "reproduction of a new breed/Stand up, organize" on the title track for his 2001 album, The Rainbow Children.

The B-side of the single was "Controversy" in Germany and Japan, while Australia paired it with " I Wanna Be Your Lover", from 1979's Prince.

Sexuality (Billy Bragg song)

"Sexuality" is the ninth track on Billy Bragg's 1991 album, Don't Try This at Home. The song was his best-known hit of the time, and was also released as a single which reached #27 on the UK charts and #2 on the U.S. Modern Rock charts.

"Sexuality" is an anti- homophobia and generally sex-positive song. It was written by Bragg with Johnny Marr, who also plays guitar on the recording.

The music video, which was conceived and directed by comedian Phill Jupitus, features Kirsty MacColl singing backing vocals as well as Jupitus himself.

Usage examples of "sexuality".

Yet this ambivalence is not unique to cross-dressing, for when it comes to dealing with their sexuality people seem to want either therapy, catharsis, or pornography.

In general, Sartre was suspicious of psychoanalysis, put off by what he saw as dogmatic symbolism, mechanistic explanation, a preponderant role for the unconscious and sexuality, and an analytic method dividing the personality into hermetic components rather than attempting to comprehend it both in its singularity and, synthetically, as an indivisible totality.

Her interest in him surged, attracted by the blatant sexuality in his whisky-rich voice.

And these mythical machineries of evil Lolita narratives perpetuate a misogyny that imposes developmentally abnormal sexuality on some females and simultaneously punishes all females for any sexuality.

Lolita and bad female sexuality, a reading that then overdetermines the book, that imposes itself upon its own text.

All right, you could always overpaint and for the sake of attempting that glimpse of her sexuality, I would certainly do so once at least, but this was not a two-month painting or even a one-month painting.

What other results could have been expected when American society began to overvalue on the one hand security, censorship, an imagined world-saving idealism and self-sacrifice in war, and on the other hand insatiable hunger for possessions, fiercely competitive aggressiveness, sadistic male belligerence, contempt for parents and the state, and a fantastically overstimulated sexuality?

The words dared Annette to probe into the sexuality of a paraplegic, which, being old-world in that sense, Annette would not do.

It was there that he recruited participants for his amateur pornographic videos, there that he encouraged his wife to expand her list of clients, there that he would listen on the intercom system while she made love, or peep through the holes he had cut in the doors to watch, and there, too, that he would indulge his passion for perverted sexuality.

Tests on a wide range of subjects indicate that the automobile, and in particular the automobile crash, provides a focus for the conceptualizing of a wide range of impulses involving the elements of psychopathology, sexuality and self-sacrifice.

When monological thought turns nature into God, then spiritual liberation consists not in resurrecting a forgotten Spirit but in digging up a repressed sexuality.

Jon Sandell projected a raw sexuality that would have aroused a response in any woman.

Instead of declaring his sexuality, he is driven to adopt the pose of playboy, thus attracting the criticism reserved for transracial adulterers.

Had he truly been that adolescent, crouched breathless in an alley behind a dumpster, acknowledging for the first time the undeniable tropism of sexuality?

The two of them then danced the tandav, the great and terrible dance of procreation, awakening the entire universe with their tantric sexuality, and at the moment of their joining, by using the formidable energies unleashed by their union, Lord Brahma was able to restore Kama to his body.