If the ovaries are cut away, particularly if it is done early in life, the woman has no sexual desire and no enjoyment.
In other words, man is the aggressive animal, so far as sexual desire is involved.
In describing the customers of houses of assignation, it has already been remarked that in the first class many of the female visitors take that step, not for gain, but impelled by affection or sexual desire.
The operation of sexual desire on the female sex is a mooted question among English writers on prostitution.
But it must be repeated, and most decidedly, that without these or some other equally stimulating cause, the full force of sexual desire is seldom known to a virtuous woman.
The aversion to coitus is real, but it is often due, not to failure of sexual desire, but to the inhibitory action of powerful extraneous causes.
Harry Campbell investigated the periodicity of sexual desire in healthy women of the working classes, in a series of cases, by inquiries made of their husbands who were patients at a London hospital.
Guyot says that the eight days after menstruation are the period of sexual desire in women (Bréviaire de l'Amour Expérimentale, p.
In one case reported from the Westminster Hospital in London, a man of sixty, after a violent fall on the chest, suffered enormous enlargement of the mammae, and afterward atrophy of the testicle and loss of sexual desire.
The menses had never appeared, and there seemed to be no sexual desire.
Another case is that of a child, nineteen months old, whose breasts and external genitals were fully developed, although the child had shown no sexual desire, and did not exceed other children of the same age in intellectual development.
Moreover, the expression of sexual desire by the play of the physionomy may be confounded with that of other sentiments, so that one who appears libidinous is not always so in reality, and inversely.
Although the organic phenomenon of the accumulation of semen in the seminal vesicles is absent in woman, there is produced in the nerve centers, after prolonged abstinence, an accumulation of sexual desire corresponding to that of man.
By sexual desire (libido sexualis) we mean the manner in which the sexual appetite manifests itself in man.
Up to the age of 14 I felt much perplexed and depressed by my views on sexual desire, and was convinced that they were peculiar to myself.
But until I was 15 I really knew nothing of sexual matters, and it was not till I was at least 17 that I was conscious of sexual desire, which I repressed with shame.
For girls he had no sexual desire whatever, though he was much associated with them.
While the preoccupation with feet and shoes persisted throughout life, it never became a complete perversion and never replaced the normal end of sexual desire.
It is only in the very grossest forms of sexual desire that it is altogether absent.
Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals.
But I imagined that if I could find a girl who would satisfy the condition of being an intellectual companion to me, all my troubles would be over; my sexual desire would be satisfied, and I could devote myself to work.
The girl showed no sexual desire; but at that time this did not attract my attention.
A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.
Even when castration is effected in infancy, sexual desire is not necessarily rendered impossible.
The Impulse to Strangle the Object of Sexual Desire--The Wish to be Strangled.
But in spite of his expectation and good will the only result was to disperse every trace of sexual desire.
All love, however ethereal it may pretend to be, is rooted solely in the sexual instinct; it is nothing more nor less than specialised, strictly speaking individualised, sexual desire.
But genuine personal love is not kindled by instinct; it is not differentiated sexual impulse; it embraces the psycho-physical unity of the beloved without being conscious of sexual desire.
When a man experiences a sexual desire, does that not indicate that the desire should be satisfied?
The feeling of sexual desire, called passion, is caused almost entirely by the mind.
Let a boy who is conscious of sexual desire, tempted to practice the secret sin, take a brisk walk for three or four miles and his passion is gone.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sexual desire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
