Sometimes we are told that the sight of the nude in art may awaken the child's sexual impulse, sometimes that morality forbids such representations of the nude.
Was the boy's impulsive desire to kiss his tutor a sexual impulse?
While some, like Morasso, assert that sexual impulseis a main cause inducing women to adopt a prostitute's career, others assert that prostitutes are usually almost devoid of sexual impulse.
In the case of women who have no defect of sexual impulse there is yet the same pressure of civilized morality pushing them into neurotic states.
Clevenger, Spitzka, Kiernan, and others have also regarded thesexual impulse as protoplasmic hunger, tracing it back to the presexual times when one protozoal form absorbed another.
We may, in other words, attempt to analyze the sexual impulse.
The experience of veterinary surgeons also shows that the sexual impulse tends to persist in animals after castration.
There is, for instance, the highly important consideration that the sexual impulse of the individual may be conspicuous in two quite distinct ways.
That which presents itself in the individual consciousness as sexual impulse in general, without being directed towards a definite individual of the other sex, is in itself, and apart from the phenomenon, simply the will to live.
But what appears in consciousness as a sexual impulse directed to a definite individual is in itself the will to live as a definitely determined individual.
Since, on the contrary, the will wills life absolutely and for all time, it exhibits itself also as sexual impulse, which has in view an endless series of generations.
In a book published in Leipsic we find the following thought expressed: "Sexual impulse is neither moral nor immoral; it is simply natural like hunger and thirst.
Such being the intensity of sexual impulse, it is not to be wondered at that with both men and women sexual abstinence frequently leads to serious disorders of the nervous system, and in some cases even to insanity and suicide.
Elizabeth Blackwell says in her essay on "The Moral Education of the Young in Relation to Sex": "Sexual impulse exists as an inevitable condition of life and the foundation of society.
All the sentiments of affection that bind a woman to a man are not derived from the sexual impulse but ~from instincts of devotion and submission acquired by adaptation~.
In the study of perversions we have gained an insight into the fact that the sexual impulsehas to struggle against certain psychic forces, resistances, among which shame and loathing are most prominent.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sexual impulse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
