sex
sex (seks)
noun
- either of the two divisions, male or female, into which persons, animals, or plants are divided, with reference to their reproductive functions
- the character of being male or female; all the attributes by which males and females are distinguished
- anything connected with sexual gratification or reproduction or the urge for these; esp., the attraction of those of one sex for those of the other
- intercourse (sense )
- the genitalia
Etymology: ME < L sexus < ? secare, to cut, divide: see saw
adjective
sexual sex education
transitive verb
to ascertain the sex of (chickens, etc.)
sex up
Slang- to arouse sexually
- to give appealing or titillating characteristics to
sex
n.
Ideas associated with sexual relationships
sexual attraction, sex appeal, magnetism, sensuality, affinity, love, courtship, marriage, generation, reproduction. A group, either male or female
men, women, males, females, the feminine world, the masculine world, androgynes. Gender
sexuality, masculinity, femininity, womanliness, manhood, manliness. Sexual intercourse
coitus, making love, the sexual act, going to bed with someone; see copulation, fornication.Genitals
genitalia, sexual organ, private parts, member*; see genitals.
Converse of object
- practice: People should therefore not inject; only inject safely with clean equipment if they do; use needle exchange and practice safe sex.
- have: He said: " Well, apart from having safe sex we haven't really got a problem then.
Preposition: outside
- marriage: As long he didn't try to insist that sex outside marriage was a danger to individuals and society alike.
Adjective modifier
- unprotected: STI s There are all manner of nasty problems you can pick up by having unprotected sex with someone who is infected.
- opposite: You have a right to equal pay with members of the opposite sex doing the same or a comparable job to you.
- anal: It is possible for a woman to become pregnant through anal sex.
- unsafe: If you have had unsafe sex, then seek help within 72 hours.
- casual: Some members think that casual sex is not wrong.
Modifies a noun
- discrimination: Examples of indirect sex discrimination are less likely to arise.
- offender: One reported incident involved the officer threatening a sex offender inmate with prisoner violence should they find images of children in his cell.
- hormone: The sex hormones are chemicals, which bring about gradual changes in the body.
- toy: At the present guide to using sex toy time!
- chromosome: One pair among the 23 pairs are the sex chromosomes.
- scandal: At a time when football has been more about sex scandals than the sport, Cardiff City didn't want to miss out.
Noun used with modifier
- cyber: Lots of cyber sex references also make this show complete.
Preposition: before
- marriage: Dealing With Your Spouses Sexual Past " Couples who've had sex before marriage will inevitably have sexual difficulties in marriage.
Preposition: with
- prostitute: Last update: 29 August 2002 QUESTION I had unprotected sex with a prostitute in the Middle East two days ago.
- stranger: Paralyzed in an accident, he asks her to have sex with strangers and describe the encounters.
His dominance is not that of one chosen as best fitted torulebut it issovereignty basedontheaccidentofsex.
I am becoming like the Irish Census, broken down by Age, Sex, and Religion.
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.
Gentleness, docility, and a spaniel-like affection are, on this ground, consistently recommended as the cardinal virtues of the sex; and, disregarding the arbitrary economy of nature, one writer has declared that it is masculine for a woman to be melancholy. She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears, whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
Far from being half a woman, a widow is the only complete example of her sex.Infact, thefinished article.
The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?
A few professional alienists understood his importance, but to most of the public he appeared as some kind of German sexologist, an exponent of free love who used big words to talk about dirty things. At least a decade would have to pass before Freud would have his revenge and seehisideas beginto destroysex in America forever.
La seule diffe¤ rence incontestable n'est pas celle des sexes ou des a" ges ou des forces, mais celle des vifs et des morts. The only incontestable difference isnot that of sexorage or strength, but that of the living and the dead.
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.
Though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him.
Everybody lies about sex. People lie during sex. If it weren't for lies, there'd be no sex.
Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.
Now,Watson, the fair sex is your department.
The Gulf War was like teenage sex.We got in too soon and we got out too soon.
A king is always a kingöand a woman always a woman; his authorityand her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
If God had meant us to have group sex, I guess he'd have given us all more organs.
My mother used to say, Delia, if S-E-X ever rears its ugly head, close your eyes before you see the rest of it.
In the sex war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
Literature ismostlyabout having sex and not muchabout having children. Life is the other way round.
For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal, count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility.
Money, itturnedout, was exactly likesex, youthought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
For there is a spot the size of a shilling at the back of the head which one cannever see foroneself.It is one of the good offices that sex can discharge for sexöto describe that spot.
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from another.
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex. I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope isgone.
Thus our twin souls in one shall grow, And teach the world new love, Redeem the age and sex, and show A flame fate dares not move: And courting death to be our friend, Our lives, together too, shall end.
My life was a strange one that summer, the last summer of its kind there was ever to be. I was riding high on sex and self-esteemöit was my time, my belle e¤ poqueö but allthewhilewith a faintflickerofcalamity, likeflames around a photograph, something seen out of the corner of the eye.
A romantic interest in our own sex, not necessarily carried as far as physical experiments, was the intellectual fashion.
There's almost as many different sorts of marriage as there's different sorts of people. There's the young things that marry for love, not knowing what they're doing, and the old things that marry for moneyand comfort and companionship. There's the people that marry for children. There's the people that don't intend to have children and that aren't fit to have them. There's the peoplethat marry becausethey're so much run after by the other sex that they have to put a stop to it somehow. There's the people that want to trya new experience, and the people that want to have done with experiences.
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
Sex and obscenityare not synonymous.
Sex had never before asserted itself in her so strongly, for in former days she had perhaps been too impersonally human to be distinctively feminine.
Sex is something I really don't understand too hot.You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away.
Sex is engaging in the first rounds but what sustains interest in the long run is power.
Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.
In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.
Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
He thought what a pity it was that all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened that really deserved a face, 14 he'd none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.
Sex 'n'drugs 'n'rock 'n'roll.
it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat
Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.
Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.
Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.
I thought of my mother, who would publicly campaign for birth control but would never even think she needed to talk to me, so firmly was she convinced that sex was something no womanöno intelligent womanöwould ever submit to unless she had to.
Sex! What is that but life, after all? We're all of us selling sex, because we're all selling life.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
'Cause some make forfeit of their name, And slave themselves to man's desire; Shall the sex free From guilt, damn'd to the bondage be?
She gave him sex and he gave her class.
The soft, unhappy sex.
In the Garden City Cafe¤ with its murals on the wall Before a talk on'Sex and Civics' I meditated on the Fall.
Women, even though they are almost too visible as sex objects in this country, are invisible people.
The weaker sex, to piety more prone.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
But Jesus, when you don't have any money the problem is food.When you have money, it's sex.When you have both it's health, you worryabout getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
It takes two to make a woman into a sex object.
Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough. (2) Too much.
I will endeavour to put the word sex in capital letters on the cover of every issue of the Literary Review under my editorship, regardless of its actual contents My purpose is simply to embolden booksellers.
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