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Voss, Robert A. Schmidt, “Archaeologies of Sexuality: An Introduction”, in Robert A. Schmidt, Barbara L. Voss, editors, Archaeologies of Sexuality, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 2:", "text": "Sexuality, then, is related to both biological sex and gender, and simultaneously is quite distinct from them. […] We employ sexuality to refer to all kinds of sexual relations, including sexual activities, eroticism, sexual identities, sexual meanings, and sexual politics.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2003, John Harrison Burnett, Fungal Populations and Species, Oxford University Press on Demand, →ISBN, page 282:", "text": "An alternative pattern of change from sexuality to asexuality in Ascomycotina could involve the widespread occurrence of female sterility. Both asexuality and 'female sterility' are widespread in Ascomycotina, and this may indicate that many ascomycotous Fungi Anamorphici have lost sexuality by a gradual process initiated by the loss or mutation of a gene other than an MTF resulting in 'female sterility'. […] There is also clear evidnece that loss of sexuality has occurred more than once in Talaromyces [A] and, in addition, asexual species are separated from sexual species by short branch lengths in terminal clades […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2005, Signe Arnfred, “Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa: Introduction”, in Signe Arnfred, editor, Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa, 2nd edition, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, →ISBN, page 7:", "text": "The time has come for re-thinking sexualities in Africa: The thinking beyond the conceptual structure of colonial and even post-colonial European imaginations, which have oscillated between notions of the exotic, the noble and the depraved savage, consistently however constructing Africans and African sexuality as something 'other'. This 'other' thing is constructed to be not only different from European/Western sexualities and self, but also functions to co-construct that which is European/Western as modern, rational and civilized.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2005, G. H. Walter, Insect Pest Management and Ecological Research, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 166:", "text": "The asexuality of insects is, in almost all cases, known to be a derived condition. That is, their evolution was contingent on the sexuality of their ancestral forms. Only a few asexual groups are 'species' rich and ostensibly asexual […]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex." ], "id": "en-sexuality-en-noun-XW1tE00u", "links": [ [ "sexual", "sexual" ], [ "characterized", "characterized" ], [ "distinguished", "distinguished" ], [ "sex", "sex" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "jinsiyya", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "جِنْسِيَّة" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "seksuálnost", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сексуа́лност" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualitat" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "性別" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "xìngbié", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "性别" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "et", "lang": "Estonian", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "seksuaalsus" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "seksuaalisuus" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "sukupuolisuus" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "seksualiteetti" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Sexualität" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "sexoualikótita", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "σεξουαλικότητα" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "szexualitás" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "id", "lang": "Indonesian", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "seks" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "alt": "せいべつ", "code": "ja", "english": "matter of male/female distinction", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "seibetsu", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "性別" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "ja", "english": "matter of sexual reproduction etc.", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "sekushuariti", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "セクシュアリティ" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "alt": "性別", "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "seongbyeol", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "성별" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "ml", "lang": "Malayalam", "roman": "laiṅgikata", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "ലൈംഗികത" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "se", "lang": "Northern Sami", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "seksualitehta" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "seksualitet" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "sex" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "nn", "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "seksualitet" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "seksualność" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidade" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualitate" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "razlíčije polóv", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "разли́чие поло́в" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pol", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "пол" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "sexualita" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "sexualitet" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "tl", "lang": "Tagalog", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "pagkasariin" }, { "_dis1": "82 1 1 5 11", "code": "te", "lang": "Telugu", "roman": "laiṅgikata", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "లైంగికత" } ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1995, Betty N. Gordon, Carolyn S. Schroeder, Sexuality: A Developmental Approach to Problems (Clinical Child Psychology Library), New York, N.Y., London: Plenum Press, →ISBN, page 119:", "text": "[W]hen adults with mild mental retardation are allowed to express their sexuality in appropriate ways, they are, in general, competent in terms of biological capability, sexual desire, and the psychological significance they attribute to sexual behavior[…]. However, they typically lack basic information about sexuality that would enhance their ability to engage in intimate relationships, as well as help them to be aware of the implications of that behavior and to protect themselves from exploitation.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1998, Susan Moore, Doreen Rosenthal, “Adolescent Sexual Behaviour”, in John Coleman, Debi Roker, editors, Teenage Sexuality: Health, Risk and Education, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 41:", "text": "Listening to teenage girls on the telephone discuss for an hour who held whose hand at a party underscores the universal adolescent fascination with burgeoning sexuality.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2000, Anne Stirling Hastings, “Introduction”, in Discovering Sexuality that Will Satisfy You Both: When Couples Want Differing Amounts and Different Kinds of Sex, Gretna, La.: Wellness Institute, Inc., →ISBN, page 1:", "text": "Millions of people in recovery are going to work on their sexuality. Some identify themselves as recovering sex addicts, some as incest survivors and some simply know they are having sexual \"problems.\" An exciting outcome of this massive energy expenditure is the opportunity to discover the real nature of sexuality. As these millions find out the truth—and live it—the world's sexuality will change.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2015, Alessandra Lemma, Paul E. Lynch, editors, Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:", "text": "The blindness that psychoanalysis had for penetrating anal sexuality as an active sexual construct, and for receptive anal sexuality as a possibly vigorous, muscular, and active option, was surely multiply determined, and without doubt related to a similar undervaluation of the active workings and possibilities that can be a part of vaginal receptivity.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Sexual activity; concern with, or interest in, sexual activity." ], "id": "en-sexuality-en-noun-hq9aRJkX", "links": [ [ "Sexual", "sexual" ], [ "activity", "activity" ], [ "concern", "concern" ], [ "interest", "interest" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "ast", "lang": "Asturian", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidá" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "seksualnost", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сексуалност" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualitat" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "性活動" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "xìng huódòng", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "性活动" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualiteit" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "seksi" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualité" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidade" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Sexualität" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "collaíocht" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "ml", "lang": "Malayalam", "roman": "laiṅgikata", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "ലൈംഗികത" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "se", "lang": "Northern Sami", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "seaksa" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "seksualność" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidade" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualitate" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "sɛksuálʹnaja aktívnostʹ", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сексуа́льная акти́вность" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "sex" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "sexualita" }, { "_dis1": "7 72 4 11 5", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidad" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "jinsiyya", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "جِنْسِيَّة" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "ast", "lang": "Asturian", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidá" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "be", "lang": "Belarusian", "roman": "seksuálʹnascʹ", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сэксуа́льнасць" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "bn", "lang": "Bengali", "roman": "jōunota", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "যৌনতা" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "seksuálnost", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сексуа́лност" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualitat" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "性慾" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "xìngyù", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "性欲" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualiteit" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "seksemo" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "seksuaalisuus" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "seksualiteetti" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualité" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidade" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Sexualität" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "miniyút", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "מִינִיּוּת" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "szexualitás" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "nemiség" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sessualità" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "alt": "せいよく", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "seiyoku", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "性欲" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "alt": "性慾", "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "seong'yok", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "성욕" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "lv", "lang": "Latvian", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "seksualitāte" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "ml", "lang": "Malayalam", "roman": "laiṅgikata", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "ലൈംഗികത" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "mt", "lang": "Maltese", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sesswalità" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "mi", "lang": "Maori", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "hōkakatanga" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "seksualność" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidade" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualitate" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "sɛksuálʹnostʹ", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сексуа́льность" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "sexualita" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidad" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "seksuálʹnistʹ", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сексуа́льність" }, { "_dis1": "6 81 3 7 3", "alt": "性慾", "code": "vi", "lang": "Vietnamese", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "tình dục" } ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1985, Paul M. Quay, The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, Calif.: Ignatius Press, →ISBN:", "text": "As his sexual activity is aggressive, so he is interested in display and in manifestation of his sexuality, if not directly, then in contest against other men. And the whole of his life manifests his inner need to take initiative.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1988, Rosemarie Morgan, Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 35:", "text": "[Thomas] Hardy relies heavily upon the natural object metaphor to provide him with a language of female sexuality that is not of the fastidious, fey, 'lilies-and-lace' category. In keeping with his heterodox views—that a voluptuous woman is a fair product of nature, fit and healthy in body and mind, neither degraded by her sexuality nor mentally or morally degenerate—he relies upon wholesome, 'natural' objects to evoke her healthy sexual appetite.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012, Jennifer Hillman, Sexuality and Aging: Clinical Perspectives, New York, N.Y.: Springer, →ISBN, page 77:", "text": "[S]he often would ask him to come inside the ladies' room and make sure that no one would come inside while she was changing. […] He also was able to see that while unusual requests played into his traditional expectations about sex roles and his desire to protect her and assert his sexuality with her, they were anything but professional. 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Voss, Robert A. Schmidt, “Archaeologies of Sexuality: An Introduction”, in Robert A. Schmidt, Barbara L. Voss, editors, Archaeologies of Sexuality, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 2:", "text": "Sexuality, then, is related to both biological sex and gender, and simultaneously is quite distinct from them. […] We employ sexuality to refer to all kinds of sexual relations, including sexual activities, eroticism, sexual identities, sexual meanings, and sexual politics.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2003, John Harrison Burnett, Fungal Populations and Species, Oxford University Press on Demand, →ISBN, page 282:", "text": "An alternative pattern of change from sexuality to asexuality in Ascomycotina could involve the widespread occurrence of female sterility. 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Gordon, Carolyn S. Schroeder, Sexuality: A Developmental Approach to Problems (Clinical Child Psychology Library), New York, N.Y., London: Plenum Press, →ISBN, page 119:", "text": "[W]hen adults with mild mental retardation are allowed to express their sexuality in appropriate ways, they are, in general, competent in terms of biological capability, sexual desire, and the psychological significance they attribute to sexual behavior[…]. 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Lynch, editors, Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:", "text": "The blindness that psychoanalysis had for penetrating anal sexuality as an active sexual construct, and for receptive anal sexuality as a possibly vigorous, muscular, and active option, was surely multiply determined, and without doubt related to a similar undervaluation of the active workings and possibilities that can be a part of vaginal receptivity.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Sexual activity; concern with, or interest in, sexual activity." ], "links": [ [ "Sexual", "sexual" ], [ "activity", "activity" ], [ "concern", "concern" ], [ "interest", "interest" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1985, Paul M. Quay, The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, Calif.: Ignatius Press, →ISBN:", "text": "As his sexual activity is aggressive, so he is interested in display and in manifestation of his sexuality, if not directly, then in contest against other men. And the whole of his life manifests his inner need to take initiative.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1988, Rosemarie Morgan, Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 35:", "text": "[Thomas] Hardy relies heavily upon the natural object metaphor to provide him with a language of female sexuality that is not of the fastidious, fey, 'lilies-and-lace' category. In keeping with his heterodox views—that a voluptuous woman is a fair product of nature, fit and healthy in body and mind, neither degraded by her sexuality nor mentally or morally degenerate—he relies upon wholesome, 'natural' objects to evoke her healthy sexual appetite.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012, Jennifer Hillman, Sexuality and Aging: Clinical Perspectives, New York, N.Y.: Springer, →ISBN, page 77:", "text": "[S]he often would ask him to come inside the ladies' room and make sure that no one would come inside while she was changing. […] He also was able to see that while unusual requests played into his traditional expectations about sex roles and his desire to protect her and assert his sexuality with her, they were anything but professional. She was, in fact, coming on to him the way he typically imagined a man would come on to a woman.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Sexual potency." ], "links": [ [ "potency", "potency" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2011, Rosie Harding, Regulating Sexuality: Legal Consciousness in Lesbian and Gay Lives, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 101:", "text": "[T]his prospective gay adoptive father chose not to disclose his sexuality to the caseworker who interviewed him at his home, rather than admit that he was a gay man, in order to avoid being told he could not adopt.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2016, Sue Westwood, Ageing, Gender and Sexuality: Equality in Later Life (Routledge Research in Gender and Society; 49), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:", "text": "Derek is the only participant to express ambivalence about both his sexuality and his gender identity. Aged 61, he has been married to women twice and has three children. He had no prior sexual encounters with men until he left his second wife in 1999, when he was 48, and began 'experimenting' with sexual relationships with men, soon identifying as gay: […]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Sexual orientation." ], "links": [ [ "Sexual orientation", "sexual orientation" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] }, { "glosses": [ "Sexual identity, gender." ], "links": [ [ "identity", "identity" ], [ "gender", "gender" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/sɛk.ʃuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "ipa": "/sɛk.sjuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "ipa": "/sɛk.ʃuˈæ.lə.ti/", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "audio": "en-au-sexuality.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cc/En-au-sexuality.ogg/En-au-sexuality.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/En-au-sexuality.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ælɪti" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "jinsiyya", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "جِنْسِيَّة" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "seksuálnost", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сексуа́лност" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualitat" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "性別" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "xìngbié", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "性别" }, { "code": "et", "lang": "Estonian", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "seksuaalsus" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "seksuaalisuus" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "sukupuolisuus" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "seksualiteetti" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Sexualität" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "sexoualikótita", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "σεξουαλικότητα" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "szexualitás" }, { "code": "id", "lang": "Indonesian", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "seks" }, { "alt": "せいべつ", "code": "ja", "english": "matter of male/female distinction", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "seibetsu", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "性別" }, { "code": "ja", "english": "matter of sexual reproduction etc.", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "sekushuariti", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "セクシュアリティ" }, { "alt": "性別", "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "seongbyeol", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "성별" }, { "code": "ml", "lang": "Malayalam", "roman": "laiṅgikata", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "ലൈംഗികത" }, { "code": "se", "lang": "Northern Sami", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "seksualitehta" }, { "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "seksualitet" }, { "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "sex" }, { "code": "nn", "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "seksualitet" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "seksualność" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidade" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualitate" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "razlíčije polóv", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "разли́чие поло́в" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pol", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "пол" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "sexualita" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "sexualitet" }, { "code": "tl", "lang": "Tagalog", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "pagkasariin" }, { "code": "te", "lang": "Telugu", "roman": "laiṅgikata", "sense": "that which is characterized or distinguished by sex", "word": "లైంగికత" }, { "code": "ast", "lang": "Asturian", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidá" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "seksualnost", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сексуалност" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualitat" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "性活動" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "xìng huódòng", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "性活动" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualiteit" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "seksi" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualité" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidade" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Sexualität" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "collaíocht" }, { "code": "ml", "lang": "Malayalam", "roman": "laiṅgikata", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "ലൈംഗികത" }, { "code": "se", "lang": "Northern Sami", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "seaksa" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "seksualność" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidade" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualitate" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "sɛksuálʹnaja aktívnostʹ", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сексуа́льная акти́вность" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "sex" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "sexual activity", "word": "sexualita" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidad" }, { "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "jinsiyya", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "جِنْسِيَّة" }, { "code": "ast", "lang": "Asturian", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidá" }, { "code": "be", "lang": "Belarusian", "roman": "seksuálʹnascʹ", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сэксуа́льнасць" }, { "code": "bn", "lang": "Bengali", "roman": "jōunota", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "যৌনতা" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "seksuálnost", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сексуа́лност" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualitat" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "性慾" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "xìngyù", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "性欲" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualiteit" }, { "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "seksemo" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "seksuaalisuus" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "seksualiteetti" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualité" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidade" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Sexualität" }, { "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "miniyút", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "מִינִיּוּת" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "szexualitás" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "nemiség" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sessualità" }, { "alt": "せいよく", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "seiyoku", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "性欲" }, { "alt": "性慾", "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "seong'yok", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "성욕" }, { "code": "lv", "lang": "Latvian", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "seksualitāte" }, { "code": "ml", "lang": "Malayalam", "roman": "laiṅgikata", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "ലൈംഗികത" }, { "code": "mt", "lang": "Maltese", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sesswalità" }, { "code": "mi", "lang": "Maori", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "hōkakatanga" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "seksualność" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidade" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualitate" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "sɛksuálʹnostʹ", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сексуа́льность" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "sexualita" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualidad" }, { "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "seksuálʹnistʹ", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "сексуа́льність" }, { "alt": "性慾", "code": "vi", "lang": "Vietnamese", "sense": "concern with or interest in sexual activity", "word": "tình dục" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "potentnost", "sense": "sexual potency", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "потентност" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "sexual potency", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "potència sexual" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "sexual potency", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "virilitat" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "sexual potency", "word": "potenssi" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "sexual potency", "word": "kyky" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "sexual potency", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "seksualność" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "sexual potency", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualitate" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "sexual potency", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "virilitate" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "polovája potɛ́ncija", "sense": "sexual potency", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "полова́я поте́нция" }, { "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "jins", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "جِنْس" }, { "alt": "huwiyya(t) jinsiyya", "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "هُوِيَّة جِنْسِيَّة" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "sexe" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "gènere" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "identitat sexual" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "sexual identity", "word": "性別" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "xìngbié", "sense": "sexual identity", "word": "性别" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "sexual identity", "word": "sukupuoli-identiteetti" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "sexual identity", "word": "sukupuolinen identiteetti" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "sexe" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "sexualité" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "Geschlecht" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Geschlechtlichkeit" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "sexoualikótita", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "σεξουαλικότητα" }, { "alt": "せいべつ", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "seibetsu", "sense": "sexual identity", "word": "性別" }, { "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "seongbyeol", "sense": "sexual identity", "word": "성별" }, { "code": "mr", "lang": "Marathi", "roman": "Laingink Asmita", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "लैंगिक अस्मिता" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "seksualność" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "identitate sexuală" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "polovája idɛntíčnostʹ", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "полова́я иденти́чность" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pol", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "пол" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "sexual identity", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "sexuell identitet" } ], "wikipedia": [ "Human sexuality" ], "word": "sexuality" }
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