sexn.¹

Brit.

/sɛks/, U.S.

/sɛks/

Forms:

α. Middle English–1600s sexe, Middle English– sex, 1500s seex.

β. 1500s sext.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French sexe; Latin sexus.

Etymology: < Middle French, French sexe the genitals (c1200 in Old French as sex ), gender, state of being male or female (c1230, 14th cent. as a social category, 1546 with reference to plants), sexuality, physical lovemaking, eroticism (1856) and its etymon classical Latin sexus (u- stem) state of being male or female, specific qualities associated with being male or female, males or females collectively, sexual organs, of uncertain origin (perhaps compare secāre to cut (see secant adj.), though the semantic connection is unclear). Compare Old Occitan sexe (1420), Catalan sexe (1515), Spanish sexo (first half of the 15th cent.), Portuguese sexo (1572), Italian sesso (14th cent.).Latin had also a form secus , neuter (indeclinable). With the third sex at sense 1b compare French troisième sexe (1817 with reference to masculine women, 1847 with reference to homosexuals). With the weak sex at Phrases 1a compare post-classical Latin sexus fragilis (c1455 in a British source), Middle French, French sexe fragile (1546), also sexe foible (1601). With the fair sex at Phrases 1a compare French beau sexe (1646). With the better sex at Phrases 1c compare post-classical Latin sexus melior (a1200 in a British source). With the in sense 3a after Middle French, French le sexe women, the female sex collectively (1580). A number of compounds from various semantic fields have earlier equivalents formed with sexual adj. (e.g. sexual organ at sexual adj. 3a, sexual discrimination n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 1, sexual offence n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 2).

a. Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions; (hence) the members of these categories viewed as a group; the males or females of a particular species, esp. the human race, considered collectively. Occasionally with plural verb.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > sex > a sex

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race1558

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. vi. 19 Of all þingez hauyng soule of eny flesch: two þou schalt brynge in to þe ark, þat male sex [L. sexus] & female: lyuen with þe.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 303 In suche Wormes is no sexe of male and femele.

?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iv. pr. vi. 137 Þilke same ordre neweþ aȝein alle þinges growyng and fallyng a-doune by sembleables progressiouns of seedes and of sexes, þat is to sein, male and female.

c1447 Queen Margaret To King in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. Introd. p. lxiii (MED) Docteurs sentences..parformyd daily twyes..to laude and honneur of sexe feminine.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere ii. p. clii I had as leue he bare them both a bare cheryte, as wyth the frayle feminyne sexe fall to far in loue.

1559 J. Aylmer Harborowe sig. E4^v Neither of them debarred the heires female..as though it had ben..vnnatural for that sexe to gouern.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. ii. sig. P3^v The sexe of womankind of all other is most bound to haue regardfull eie to mens iudgements.

1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will sig. F3^v A woman they imagine her to be, Because that sexe keepes nothing close they heare.

1612 R. Johnson Crowne-Garland Goulden Roses sig. E8^v Our sex are given to range.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 274 If wee respect the..conformation of both the Sexes, the Male is sooner perfected..in the wombe.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 774 It was a weakness In me, but incident to all our sex .

a1704 T. Brown Satire against Woman in Wks. (1707) I. i. 82 Thy Sex are all Pandora's; Mischiefs all.

1730 J. Swift Let. to Mrs. Whiteway 28 Dec. You have neither the scrawl nor the spelling of your sex.

1763 G. Williams in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) I. 265 It would astonish you to see the mixture of sexes at this place.

1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iv. 54 Our sex are like poor tradesmen.

1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) vi. §35 The sensibility of the female sex appears..to be greater than that of the male.

1839 H. Malcom Trav. (1840) 40/1 Neither sex tattoo any part of their bodies.

1846 Ecclesiologist Feb. 41 The propriety and necessity of dividing the sexes during the publick offices of the Church.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxv. 210 She was by no means so far superior to her sex as to be above jealousy.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. i. 161 It was a school..for both sexes.

1914 Amer. Med. 9 531/1 By nature all human beings are psychically bisexual—capable of loving a person of either sex.

1958 Listener 27 Nov. 891/2 By using this technique of ‘colour-ringing’ the author was able to record the histories of some forty birds of each sex.

1980 Times 22 May 12 Once you put them on a horse the female sex are far more deadly than the male.

2007 J. Mansell Thinking of You v. 30 Gavin was an enthusiastic chatter-upper of the opposite sex.

b. In extended use, esp. as the third sex. A (notional) third division of humanity regarded as analogous to, or as falling between, the male and female sexes; spec. that consisting of: (a) eunuchs or transsexuals; †(b) humorously clergymen (obsolete); (c) homosexual people collectively.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > castration > person > collectively

the third sex1821

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto V xxvi. 148 A black old neutral personage Of the third sex stept up.

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV lxxxvi. 114 From all the pope makes yearly 't would perplex To find three perfect pipes of the third sex.

1873 Ld. Houghton Monogr. 280 Sydney Smith..often spoke with much bitterness of the growing belief in three Sexes of Humanity—Men, Women, and Clergymen.

1896 J. A. Symonds Probl. in Mod. Ethics (new ed.) vi. 78 Burton..was led to surmise a crasis of the two sexes in persons subject to sexual inversion. Thus he came to speak of ‘the third sex’.

1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers II. xviii. 230 A very considerable measure of latent or unconscious homosexuality can be detected in all normal people. If these findings are taken into account, then..the supposition that nature in a freakish mood created a ‘third sex’ falls to the ground.

1977 C. Isherwood Christopher & his Kind ii. 20 Hirschfield..was..as a leading expert on homosexuality. Thousands of members of The Third Sex, as he called it, looked up to him as their champion.

2005 N.Y. Mag. 21 Nov. 77 He..tracks down..the ‘third sex’ hijras of India, the ‘lady-boy’ kathoey of Thailand, [etc.].

2. Quality in respect of being male or female, or an instance of this; the state or fact of belonging to a particular sex; possession or membership of a sex.

a. With regard to persons or animals.Since the 1960s increasingly replaced by gender (see gender n. 3b) when the referent is human, perhaps originally as a euphemism to distinguish this sense from sense 4b. The word sex tends now to refer to biological differences, while gender often refers to cultural or social ones.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > sex > quality or condition

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c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 239 (MED) By the mouthe of a womman of fraile sexe was this woord passed.

1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 71^v If by corps supposed may be her seex, then sure a virgin she.

1616 T. Scot Philomythie sig. ¶2 Like as hares change shape and sex, some say Once euery yeare.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 50 A criticall view of bones makes a good distinction of sexes.

1682 G. Hartman Digby's Choice Coll. Rare Secrets ii. 225 Persons of all Ages and Sexes.

1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 7 Mar. (1948) I. 208 I find I was mistaken in the sex, 'tis a boy.

1757 T. Smollett Reprisal iv. v As for me, my sex protects me.

1787 J. M. Adair Med. Cautions (ed. 2) x. 289 (heading) The quantity..of foods and drinks used by persons in health ought to be accommodated to age, sex,..and climate.

1825 W. Scott Betrothed xiii, in Tales Crusaders I. 250 I am but a poor and neglected woman, feeble both from sex and age.

1851 Waukesha (Wisconsin) Democrat 21 Oct. 1/5 This right to franchise has been governed by..sex in the most liberal communities.

1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales 116 Oysters are of distinct sexes.

1933 L. Spier Yuman Tribes vii. 209 She needed to know no more than the sex and relative ages of the siblings.

1962 Diss. Abstr. 22 2829/1 The sex of the recipient animal had no effect on the survival of isografted fetal tissue.

1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) vi. 137 This time the sex was in no doubt—a pair of stupendous breasts could be seen.

2004 Nation's Restaurant News (Nexis) 23 Aug. 4 It..agreed to hire workers without regard to sex and to make sex-neutral job descriptions.

b. With regard to plants (cf. female adj. 1d, male adj. 2).

ΚΠ

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 28 Some seeme to haue both sexes and kindes: as the Oke, the Lawrell and such others.

1631 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 49 There be sexes of hearbes..namely, the Male or Female.

1720 P. Blair Bot. Ess. iv. 237 These being very evident Proofs of a necessity of two Sexes in Plants as well as in Animals.

1790 W. Smellie Philos. Nat. Hist. I. 245 There is not a notion more generally adopted, than that vegetables have the distinction of sexes.

1848 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) II. 80 Change of Sex under the influence of external causes.

1867 A. S. Fuller Small Fruit Culturist xi. 252 The Shepherdia, being diœcious, it is therefore necessary to plant one of each sex to obtain fruit.

1957 Fassett's Man. Aquatic Plants (rev. ed.) 182 In each sex the scales are often hairy, the many overlapping silky hairs of the expanding catkins making the familiar ‘Pussies’.

1990 National Gardening Mar. 38/1 The sex of an asparagus plant is dependent on a gene that breeders call the ‘m’ gene—a capital ‘M’ for male, and a small ‘m’ for female.

a. With the. The female sex. Now archaic or literary.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > women collectively

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womanOE

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1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 190 As he that had tolde a long tale before certaine noble women, of a matter somewhat in honour touching the Sex.

1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 101^v Not yet weighing with himselfe, the weaknesse and imbecillitie of the sex.

1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife ii. 24 He has a strange penchant to grow fond of me, in spight of his Aversion to the Sex.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 139 The men of Asia behave with more deference to the sex than you seem to imagine.

1789 A. Young Jrnl. 3 Nov. in Trav. France (1792) i. 220 The sex of Venice are undoubtedly of a distinguished beauty.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII lxxix. 94 We give the sex the pas.

1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. I. 22 Going ‘up stairs’, as the sex says, at 5 a.m. on the day after arrival, I cast the first glance at Funchal.

1920 D. Lindsay Voy. Arcturus i. 2 He was used to such receptions at the hands of the sex.

1986 T. Mo Insular Possession xi. 90 O'Rourke's antipathy to the sex may be entirely apocryphal.

†b. In predicative use, without the. Feminine. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > people > person > woman > [adjective]

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1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Cymon & Iphigenia in Fables 554 She hugg'd th' Offender, and forgave th' Offence, Sex to the last.

a. The distinction between male and female, esp. in humans; this distinction as a social or cultural phenomenon, and its manifestations or consequences; (in later use esp.) relations and interactions between the sexes; sexual motives, instincts, desires, etc.Now usually coloured by the more explicit sense at 4b.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > sex

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a1631 J. Donne Primrose in Songs & Sonn. in Poems (1912) I. 61 Should she Be more then woman, she would get above All thought of sexe, and think to move My heart to study her, and not to love.

a1643 W. Cartwright Siedge iii. vi, in Comedies (1651) sig. I8 My Soul's As Male as yours; there's no Sex in the mind.

1749 W. Melmoth Lett. by Sir Thomas Fitzosborne II. lxii. 119 There may be a kind of sex in the very soul.

1751 J. Harris Hermes i. iv. 41 Besides Number, another characteristic, visible in Substances, is that of Sex.

1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer 68 Athenè..has nothing of sex except the gender, nothing of the woman except the form.

1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways II. xiii. 325 A damsel..pursued by the idea of sex as the direct motive of every act of every person surrounding her.

1887 K. Pearson Ethics of Freethought (1888) xv. 429 What is the true type of social (moral) action in matters of sex?

1895 M. Crackanthorpe in 19th Cent. Apr. 614 The writers and readers who have strenuously refused to allow to sex its place in creative art.

1912 H. G. Wells Marriage ii. §6. 72 The young need..to be told..all we know of three fundamental things; the first of which is God,..and the third Sex.

1960 J. Bayley Characters of Love ii. 52 The appearance of Courtly Love..has left an immense legacy of received ideas about sex and society.

2005 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Nov. 18 A lot of women now like men to pay for them on dates... We've dealt with the outdated view of sex underpinning this.

b. Physical contact between individuals involving sexual stimulation; sexual activity or behaviour, spec. sexual intercourse, copulation. to have sex (with): to engage in sexual intercourse (with).Now the most common general sense. Sometimes, when denoting sexual activity other than conventional heterosexual intercourse, preceded by modifying adjective, as gay, oral, phone sex, etc.: see the first element.safe, unprotected, unsafe sex, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse

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Sir Berkeley1937

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fanny1993

1900 H. G. Wells Love & Mr. Lewisham xvii. 144 We marry in fear and trembling, sex for a home is the woman's traffic, and the man comes to his heart's desire when his heart's desire is dead.

1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 57 If you want to have sex, you've got to trust At the core of your heart, the other creature.

1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer x. 174 Her arms went around his neck and his hand rested on her waist, and they had a brief moment of friendship before the sex began.

1962 Listener 7 June 1006/2 Why wasn't Bond ‘more tender’ in his love-making? Why did he just ‘have sex’ and disappear?

1971 Petticoat 17 July 6/2 The most conspicuous consequence of sex before marriage is the possibility of pregnancy.

1991 Locus May 38/3 She strongly disapproved of the sex and violence now making its way into young-adult fiction, under the guise of ‘problem stories’.

2005 Time 10 Oct. 45/3 Multiple studies have found most teens with same-sex attractions have had sex with both boys and girls.

5. slang or euphemistic. A person's genitals.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun]

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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis

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1664 T. Killigrew Princess ii. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 22 Another ha's gon through with the bargain... One that will find the way to her Sex, before you'le come to kissing her hand.

1807 R. S. Pandeet in J. H. Hindley Antient Indian Lit. 129 Taking two pieces of coloured cloth, dyed red, one of them for hiding his sex and the other for clothing his body [etc.].

1938 D. Gascoyne Hölderlin's Madness 18 And the black cypresses strained upwards like the sex of a hanged man.

1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It xviii. 162 His eyes turned to his pants, gaping open, and his sex sick as an overhandled rattler gaping through.

1977 T. Allbeury Man with President's Mind i. 9 The narrow white briefs that barely captured her sex.

2003 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 2 Mar. 2 And he put in a fake sex (penis) because he wanted to make the scene more real, more rude.

Phrases

P1.

a. the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex: the female sex, women. Similarly †the devout sex, †the woman sex, the second sex.In more recent use often ironical or humorous, but also sometimes offensive (when the phrase may be viewed as implying that women are inferior to men, as with the weak sex).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > women collectively

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womanOE

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womankindc1175

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the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex1536

the second sex1536

the woman sex1536

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mesdames1552

the fairer (also gentler, softer, weaker, etc.) sex1578

sex1589

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womenfolk1729

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ladydom1843

petticoatery1849

tea-body1865

muslin1884

the skirt1899

quim1909

womyn1975

womxn1991

the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > speak of or mention > talk about something specified

the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex1536

1536 P. Melancthon Confessyon of Fayth of Germaynes f. 24 This happenyd also..in Monasteries of women..not withstonding that the weake sexe or kynde ought more to haue ben spared.

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Eviiv The magnificency & liberalitie of that gentle sex.]

1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iii. sig. H4 I am bound by a strong vow to kisse all of the woman sex I meet this morning.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 246 The Pillar..at which the devout sex are always rubbing their Chaplets.

1688–9 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 294 Lovers and courters of the fair sex.

1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. Ded. sig. A2 To the Ladies, Gentlewomen, and Others, of the Fair-Sex, the Author Humbly Dedicates this following Work.

1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 435 The King insults the Goddess as she flies..Go, let thy own soft Sex employ thy Care.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xxiv. 142 The fair Sex have now nothing to do but dress and paint.

1801 Port Folio 23 May 166/3 I prefer the favours of the fair sex to the company of the soakers, and so there is an end to all drinking.

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV cviii. 125 Benign ceruleans of the second sex! Who advertise new poems by your looks.

1836 W. Irving Widow's Ordeal in Magnolia for 1837 257 It is somewhat remarkable that..the gentler sex should have been most frequently the subjects of these rude trials.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. iv. vi. 14 In addition to those qualities which please the softer sex, Legard was a good whist-player.

1896 J. K. Bangs House-boat on Styx vii. 86 But go along and have your ladies' day here, and never mind my reasons for preferring my own society to that of the fair sex.

1928 D. K. Parker tr. Schopenhauer: Selections 443 Women..form the sexus sequior—the second sex.

1953 H. M. Parshley tr. S. de Beauvoir (title) The second sex.

1974 J. Mitchell Psychoanal. & Feminism ii. ii. 306 Woman is the archetype of the oppressed consciousness: the second sex.

1996 L. Lowndes How to make Anyone fall in Love with You xxxvi. 217 Another gentle habit of the gentle sex that, unfortunately, drives men stark raving berserk.

2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 June 44/3 The translation is sometimes old-fashioned (who now describes women as ‘the fair sex’?).

b. With comparative adjectives: the fairer (also gentler, softer, weaker, etc.) sex.In more recent use often ironical or humorous, but also sometimes offensive (when the phrase may be viewed as implying that women are inferior to men, as with the weaker sex).

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the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > women collectively

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womanOE

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womankindc1175

womenkina1387

womenkinda1387

womanhoodc1405

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the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex1536

the second sex1536

the woman sex1536

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the fairer (also gentler, softer, weaker, etc.) sex1578

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womandom1838

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petticoatery1849

tea-body1865

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the skirt1899

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womyn1975

womxn1991

1578 T. Churchyard Disc. Queenes Entertainem. sig. F. iij The weaker sexe, in beautie doth excell.

1618 R. Brathwait Good Wife sig. B6, in P. Hannay Happy Husband (1619) He should dispence with lighter faults, not vex Himselfe for trifles, shee's the weaker sex.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. v. ix. sig. Ll8^v Persons of the fairer Sex.

1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xiv. l. 213 The softer sex, attending Him And his still-growing woes.

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty x. 65 An elegant degree of plumpness peculiar to the skin of the softer sex.

1786 Adventures George Maitland II. v. 116 Her voice was shrill, but melodious, she spoke with a readiness and facility upon most subjects, and possessed an understanding not very common in the softer sex.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. vi. 76 It was rather hard on Maggie that Tom always absconded,..but the weaker sex are acknowledged to be serious impedimenta in cases of flight.

1894 C. D. Tyler in Geogr. Jrnl. 3 479 They are beardless, and usually wear a shock of unkempt hair, which is somewhat finer in the gentler sex.

1961 ‘F. O'Brien’ Hard Life v. 42 Decent people should look after women—isn't that right? The weaker sex.

1997 Daily Express 19 Feb. 23/1 Far from being the gentler sex, they [sc. women as bosses] are more likely to behave like dictators.

2005 Good Weekend (Austral.) 8 Jan. 8/2 A distinctive Japanese style of manga cartoon for the fairer sex.

c. the sterner (also†better, †rougher, stronger) sex: the male sex, men. Now rare.In more recent use often ironical or humorous, but also sometimes offensive (when the phrase may be viewed as implying that women are inferior to men, as with the stronger sex).

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the world > people > person > man > [noun] > men collectively

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manc1300

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mankind1526

manhood1588

mens-kind1592

the sterner (alsobetter, rougher, stronger) sex1608

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masculinity1860

1608 Bp. J. King Serm. St. Maries Oxf. 27 Nature hath more enabled the stronger sexe to vndergoe this burthen.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 22 Whiles the better sex seek prey abroad, the women (therein like themselves) keep home and spin.

1702 G. Miège New State Eng. (ed. 4) ii. 82 A Queen, whose incomparable Wisdom will ever be admired by future Ages, as..a Pattern to Princes of the better Sex.

1724 Love upon Tick 18 Whatever Influence, Age, or Infirmities, may have on one, and that the rougher sex, yet the Impressions made on the other are so deep [etc.].

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 254 Divest the rougher sex of female airs.

1819 J. Foster Contrib. Eclectic Rev. (1844) I. 508 It was not..thought too much for persons of the stronger sex, to go and return many miles on foot.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. Introd. Ep. p. ix I abide by the general opinion, that he is of the rougher sex.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiv. 312 ‘Mama’ is rather a misanthropist, is she not? Not the best opinion of the sterner sex?

1861 Southern Literary Messenger May 397/2 It is perhaps from utter despair..that so many of the better sex have..perpetrated of late years so many extravagancies in that region [sc. the north].

1915 New Fun 12 June 11/2 Now, through not taking a man's part, we have turned them into a weaker sex, and it is we girl-boys who are the stronger sex.

1927 Bright Ideas for Entertaining (rev. ed.) 233 If women are to do men's work in the world, the occupations of the sterner sex must change also and become those formerly handled by women.

2005 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 5 Sept. King Parikshit and maybe King Janaka restore our faith in the sterner sex somewhat, but..the draw of the novel lies in the strength of its women.

d. the opposite sex: see opposite adj. 2b.

P2. organ of sex: (usually in plural) any one of the reproductive organs in sexed animals or plants; = sex organ n. at Compounds 3.

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1792 tr. P. M. F. de Pagès Trav. Round World III. xxix. 237 The general colour of the Whale is black; the under part and edges of the mouth are white,..the paps of the female, and the organs of sex, are white.

1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 610 On the floor of this last grotto, Senhor Penna found several urns... All the tubular vases..have the organs of sex, male or female, carefully and prominently represented.

1896 Science New Ser. June 826 The stamen is..as much a member or organ of sex as the root is an organ of nutrition.

1955 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 41 670 In these animals [sc. young opossums] the internal organs of sex were all strongly transformed.

2000 Wisconsin Employment Law Let. (Nexis) Nov. Identifying emotionally or psychologically with the sex other than one's biological or legal sex at birth, whether or not there has been a physical change of the organs of sex.

P3. sex (and) drugs and rock 'n' roll: used to denote a hedonistic and extravagant lifestyle of a type associated with rock music and rock musicians, or with youth culture generally. Cf. rock 'n' roll adj.

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1969 Life 17 Oct. 77 The counter culture has its sacraments in sex, drugs and rock.]

1971 Spectator 16 Oct. 556 Not for nothing is the youth culture characterized by sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.

1977 I. Dury & C. Jankel (title of song) Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

1978 Observer 28 May 30/6 King's College, Cambridge is ‘probably the zappiest college with quite a lot of sex, drugs and rock-and-roll’.

1986 M. Davies et al. Half Earth xii. 267 Goa is seen by Indians as the place, par excellence, where hippies congregate with their sex and drugs and rock' n' roll.

2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 17 Mar. (Life Suppl.) 4/3 Boyden's gripping debut novel follows childhood pals from their first game of truth or dare down the rabbit hole of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

P4. Chiefly British. sex and shopping: a genre of popular fiction featuring wealthy and glamorous characters who typically engage in frequent sexual encounters and extravagant spending, esp. on designer goods. Frequently attributive: designating (a novel of) this genre. Cf. bonkbuster n.

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1985 Ladies' Home Jrnl. May 92 Jackie Collins, charming, vibrant and stunningly attractive, could serve as at least a minor character in one of her sex-and-shopping-among-the-rich-and-famous page-turners.]

1986 Washington Post 20 May b4/3 Sure enough, her powerful brand of S&S (sex and shopping) sold 4.6 million copies and made little Judy Tarcher an overnight success.

1987 Times (Nexis) 11 May A researcher employed on Conran's ‘sex and shopping’ blockbuster, Lace.

1995 Daily Tel. 20 Mar. 6/4 He's not a writer because he writes the ‘other stuff’, I'm not talking about people who write sex and shopping.

2000 Book May 52/1 The bestselling author and creator of the ‘sex and shopping’ genre is thin as a sparrow and looks a well-preserved fifty.

P5.

Sex on the Beach n. (also with lower-case initials) originally U.S. a sweet cocktail made with vodka, liqueur (usually peach schnapps), and fruit juice.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cocktail > [noun] > vodka cocktail

Bloody Mary1939

Moscow mule1944

screwdriver1948

vodka martini1953

vodkatini1955

Black Russian1957

White Russian1965

bloody1967

vodka Collins1969

Bloody Caesar1972

vodka gimlet1974

kamikaze1979

Sex on the Beach1986

caipiroska1990

appletini1997

1986 Frederick (Maryland) Post 23 May g8/2 (advt.) ‘Sex on the Beach’ shooters $1.50.

1994 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 22 May (Mag. section) 18 Vodka and juices; Absolute preferred—from sex on the beach, with cranberry and pineapple juices and peach schnapps, to the Cape Cod, with cranberry juice.

2006 J. G. Hayes Map of Harbor Islands xvi. 213 She'd only had two and a half Sex on the Beaches but she could never hold her booze when she was dieting.

P6. colloquial (chiefly British and Australian). sex on legs: extremely sexy or sexually desirable. Chiefly as predicate.

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1988 Herald (Melbourne) 28 Mar. (Gold TV Guide Suppl.) 16/3 Those searching for something beyond his ‘sex-on-legs’ persona were rewarded.

1995 Evening Standard (Nexis) 27 Apr. 29 Female friends say he's sex on legs.

2002 M. Gayle Dinner for Two 351 You have to believe you're sex on legs. It's a survival mechanism.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, with sense ‘of, relating to, or characterized by sex, involving sex’ (chiefly in senses 2 and 4).Many of the compounds listed here are paralleled by uses of sexual: see sexual adj.

sex activity n.

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1898 C. P. Stetson Women & Econ. iii. 44 Woman..has developed in the lines of action to which she was confined; and those were always lines of sex-activity.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female x. 208 The burden of choosing between sex activity and other activities has been taken off the individual.

1996 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 15 Aug. e1 Longueuil police have been sending four undercover police officers into the park..to clear out daytime sex activities.

sex addict n.

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1927 Chicago Tribune 19 Nov. 16 (advt.) Sex-addicts who advertise.

1965 Xenia (Ohio) Daily Gaz. 1 Feb. 14/2 They play up the thrill seekers and the sex addicts.

2003 Marie Claire Dec. 112/1 John is a diagnosed sex addict... John..has had 24 affairs.

sex affair n.

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1912 W. Healy Case Stud. Mentally Abnormal Types 29 Miserable sex affairs of lowest order, on occasions over long time... Boy himself admits affairs.

1996 Seattle Times (Nexis) 17 Mar. i. 1 She had occasional sex affairs. It was always understood with the men that the affairs were to be temporary.

sex-anger n.

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1903 J. H. Yoxall Alain Tanger's Wife vii. 47 Sex-anger rose in me; it was not cupidity alone that stirred me now.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo xiii. 294 And if for a time you do overcome her with reason, the sex-anger only arises more hideously.

1991 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 14 Apr. (Review Suppl.) 16 They had a very cold relationship. And this explains why she explodes into sex-anger when he dies.

sex antagonism n.

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1896 19th Cent. Nov. 780 Women have desired that their public work should be on the broad line of homo man..not on the narrow one of sex affinity, much less of sex antagonism.

1952 A. Christie Mrs. McGinty's Dead xii. 93 We really get a feeling of sex antagonism between the chap and the girl.

2000 Sunday Telegram (Mass.) (Nexis) 15 Oct. b4 Although she occasionally felt sex antagonism from male scientists,..her accomplishments gave her tremendous satisfaction.

sex awareness n.

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1914 J. A. Thomson Wonder of Life vi. 411 In Echinoderms, for instance, the absence of ganglia puts definite sex-awareness out of the question.

1996 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 18 Aug. b3 The organization plans to work with local school systems to raise sex awareness among parents and children.

sex behaviour n.

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1913 A. Moll tr. E. Paul Sexual Life of Child (ed. 2) Introd. p. vii For the physician in such cases to..give more than perfunctory general counsel, knowledge of the psychology of sex-behavior, as well as its physiology, is necessary.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female xvii. 354 The exaggerated over-concern with the other..puts an extraordinary strain on sex behaviour.

1992 Jrnl. Public Health Policy 13 20 It is easier to establish safer sex behaviour from the beginning than it is to change existing sexual behaviour.

† sex circuit n. Obsolete rare

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1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xvi. 221 Each acknowledges the perfection of the polarised sex-circuit.

sex clinic n.

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1914 Marshall (Mich.) News-Statesman 26 Sept. 4/3 There is no sex clinic, no white slave discussion,..it is a good old drama of our childhood days.

1972 Newsweek 27 Nov. 65 The sex clinic is fast becoming as vital a part of the modern hospital as the emergency room.

2007 Evening Standard (Nexis) 23 Nov. a26 A sex clinic is offering teenagers pregnancy tests and infection checks from a vending machine.

sex complex n.

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1912 B. Hart Psychol. Insanity viii. 103 In certain elderly unmarried women the ‘sex complex’, including in that..the various instincts belonging to sex, has been denied its natural outlet.

1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. iii. 8/5 He lost the [Funniest Accountant in America] contest because the judges felt he used his sex complex as a crutch.

sex compulsion n.

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1906 J. Y. F. Cooke Stories Strange Women 56 I have denounced..and desired them [sc. women]:..wondering always wherein their potency lay—how much to the universal sex compulsion, which is nothing to their credit, and how much to..the mere clothes.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover vi. 66 Be damned to the artificial sex-compulsion! I refuse it!

1992 Jrnl. Consumer Res. 19 173/2 Edward was unable to control his drug and sex compulsions even though he knew he was under police surveillance.

sex conflict n.

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1883 S. S. Hennell Present Relig. (1887) II. ii. i. 291 The giving to the bond of Marriage its own perfecting self-consistency, by the means of the included perfecting of the Sex-conflict.

1948 H. R. Mowrer in H. Becker & R. Hill Family, Marriage & Parenthood xii. 369 Sex conflict usually develops early in the marriage.

2003 Evolution 57 2591/2 Sexual selection and sex conflict have minimal consequences.

sex consciousness n.

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1891 M. D. Conway Prisons of Air xvi. 209 In physique, in sex-consciousness, she was still childlike.

1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles II. 193 ‘Sex consciousness’..remains for a long time, the male continuing to feed the female..even after the young are hatched.

2001 Irish Times (Nexis) 6 Jan. (Weekend section) 60 The most ascetic sort of sex consciousness—that of the elderly academic cleric—with its passion for bruising the body to pleasure the soul.

sex contrast n.

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1905 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 11 369 The psychological obliteration of the sex-contrast, found so conspicuously in the social life of the Syrians,..terminated in the conception of divinities which combined the two.

1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons iii. 263 The male ‘ends’ are salmon red or dull pink; the female ‘ends’ are greenish-grey or drab—the sex-contrast eking itself out in colour.

1993 Jrnl. Occup. Psychol. (Nexis) Mar. The sex contrast effect, which is characteristic especially of the perception of women, cannot completely explain the results [of a behavioural study].

sex correlation n.

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1905 Lancet 5 Aug. 381/2 Sufficiently wide investigation would demonstrate the sex correlation of even the infective diseases, such as tuberculosis.

1978 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 6 33/2 Hunting participation is predominantly by males,..and we found a similar (but weaker) sex correlation for hunting attitudes.

sex craving n.

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1893 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 6 22 Snuff-taking may be conceived as an exploitation of the pleasure of the sneeze-craving, as lewd dances..are of that of the sex-craving.

1921 D. H. Lawrence Psychoanal. & Unconscious i. 20 The incest-craving is not the result of inhibition of normal sex-craving.

2005 Sunday Life (Belfast) (Nexis) 18 Dec. A disgraced former priest... has talked about his sex cravings and internet addiction.

sex difference n. [compare French différence sexuelle (1761)]

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1870 A. J. Davis Fountain ii. 28 There is a constitutional difference between a woman-nature and a man-nature which lies deeper than any habits or circumstances... This sex-difference was illustrated by Mr. R. Grant White.

1918 M. C. Stopes Married Love iii. 19 Vaguely, perhaps, men have realised that much of the charm of life lies in the sex-differences between men and women.

2000 Internat. Jrnl. Advertising 19 46 The proposition that sex differences in communication may indeed be biologically based rather than socially controlled.

sex disqualification n.

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1877 F. A. Maxse Woman Suffrage, Counterfeit & True i. 5 We demand that where it [sc. property] qualifies a man it shall qualify a woman—that there shall be no sex disqualification.

1919 Act 9 & 10 Geo. V c. 71 § 4 This Act may be cited as the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919.

1994 L. A. Hall in S. Oldfield This Working-day World xvii. 193 By the 1920s women over 30 had obtained parliamentary suffrage, and certain sex disqualifications had been removed.

sex distinction n.

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a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 199 Sex-Distinctions too are laid aside. The Women wear the Trowsies and the Vest: While Men in Muffs, Fans, Petticoats are drest.

1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 317 From a state marked by a mere varying of the nuclear elements,..the sex-distinction slowly gathers definition.

1924 W. Lewis in New Statesman 24 May 191/2 The sex distinction has been very much diminished A period of sex-fusion having set in, sex qua sex has lost its importance.

2007 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. (Culture section) 54 Smith derides conventional sex distinction: ‘She was as brave and handsome and rough as a girl. She was as pretty and delicate and dainty as a boy.’

sex distribution n.

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1885 Times 14 Jan. 4/1 While correcting these figures for age and sex distribution,..[he] makes no mention of adding the deaths of the inhabitants..who die in the public institutions.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female xiii. 266 The very simple accidents of sex distribution inside any family give a structure within which a child can feel unwanted.

2007 Dis. Risk Factor Week (Nexis) 10 June 655 Twenty-six patients had HCV [sc. hepatitis C virus]. The sex distribution, mean age, and dialysis duration were similar between groups.

sex divergence n.

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1899 Biblical World 13 403 There will also be interests more or less peculiar to sex, especially during those years when sex-divergence is marked.

1999 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 266 2148/1 (caption) Sex divergence in tail length relative to snout-vent length within red-sided gartersnakes.

sex education n. [compare French éducation sexuelle (1892)]

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1893 J. A. Symonds Let. 11 Feb. in S. Brady J. A. Symonds & Homosexuality (2012) 247 I feel very doubtful as to whether the Southern or Northern view of sex-education is the right one.

1908 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 8 246 With the quack medicine crusade waged by Collier's..and the sex education of the child on the part of Ladies Home Journal, there are hardly any of these magazines which the nurse may not choose..not only to read aloud but for her own edification.

1969 Guardian 7 Aug. 7/6 A series of sex-education talks I'd been giving at a North-east London youth club.

2002 V. Coren & C. Skelton Once more, with Feeling lii. 322 The brigade of Daily Mail piano-leg-covering prigs who think that a liberal sex education is some sort of foul perversion.

sex educator n.

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1912 I. S. Wile Sex Educ. i. 35 Enlightenment by parents as to the evolution of life..forestalls the vulgarity and obscenity of the usual sex educators—companions, servants, and gangsters.

1934 J. K. Folsom Family xvii Sex differences and reproduction. This knowledge, it is now agreed by most sex educators, should be given at an age much earlier than our traditional culture has favored.

2006 Guardian (Nexis) 15 May (Features section) 10 The second party had a female sex educator talk to attendees about female ejaculation.

sex emotion n.

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1897 K. Pearson Chances of Death II. 350 She [sc. the primitive mother-goddess] becomes a centre of sex-emotion, and a symbol of archaic race feeling.

1967 A. Marshall in Coast to Coast 1965–6 108 He was sure the men he knew were incapable of any sex emotion other than an animal lust.

2000 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 5 We're putting our sex-emotions where our nesting-emotions should be.

sex equality n.

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1882 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Weekly Times 17 Aug. It was a time of furore on the sex equality question.

1921 Daily Mail Year Bk. 42/1 The organization of the League of Nations has from the outset been founded on the principle of sex equality.

2006 Independent (Nexis) 2 Mar. (Features section) 18 She calls for a legal requirement for employers in the private sector to promote sex equality and eliminate sex discrimination.

sex excitement n.

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1903 E. A. Kirkpatrick Fund. Child Study vii. 113 Looking at the matter from the physiological side, we note that not infrequently some physical defect is the cause of sex excitement and perversion in childhood.

1980 Signs 5 706 A common insight about sex excitement to be found in many women's novels is that each person's history is an encoded set of reasons for arousal.

sex experience n.

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1892 A. W. Besant Reïncarnation 57 It seems likely that sex-experience constantly redresses the balance of the evolutionary process.

1919 M. C. Stopes Married Love (ed. 7) ix. 141 Women so harried by the undue drains of unregulated sex-experience.

2004 Pulse (Nexis) 16 Aug. 24 Nearly a third of males and a quarter of females aged 16 to 19 have had their first sex experience before the age of 16.

sex exploitation n.

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1908 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 17 Jan. 2/2 Along with economic exploitation has often gone sex exploitation.

2007 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 29 Aug. A..man was arrested yesterday after allegedly using the MySpace Internet site to lure a 15-year-old..girl into an odyssey of rape, sex exploitation and drug abuse.

sex feeling n.

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1869 Practitioner June 339 He was given to onanism, being quite overpowered by the sex-feeling: he deplored it.

1918 M. C. Stopes Married Love v. 50 Even after a woman's dormant sex-feeling is aroused..it may even take as much as from ten to twenty minutes of actual physical union to consummate her feeling.

2006 Harvard Jrnl. Law & Public Policy (Nexis) 22 June Ten [topics on a student questionnaire] were sexually explicit:..‘Getting scared or upset when I think about sex’, ‘Having sex feelings in my body’, ‘Can't stop thinking about sex’, [etc.].

sex festival n.

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1897 K. Pearson Chances of Death II. x. 57 The important part played by women in the Dionysian sex-festival.

2004 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 27 June (Entertainment section) 17 f A weird backwoods sex festival that is a combination of spring-break orgy and biker rally.

sex fiend n.

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1915 C. Hamilton Miracle of Love ii. 98 He was a sex fiend, in the same way as men are opium fiends.

1976 T. Heald Let Sleeping Dogs Die vi. 111 She was picked up by a sex fiend..and raped.

2005 J. Trunk Dirty Fan Male 2 His uncanny resemblance to Aleister Crowley, London's legendary black magician and sex fiend.

sex film n.

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1914 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 9 July 12/5 (headline) Sex film at Grand is given the O.K. by local censors.

1970 Guardian 10 Dec. 10/4 From time to time we have to see, not sex films, but sex-instruction films.

2003 M. Bronski Pulp Friction iv. 255 Sex films of the fifties that were introduced by a ‘doctor’ explaining why the movie was ‘educational’.

sex flow n. rare

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1929 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & Obscenity 26 The sex-flow is dying out of the young.

1984 T. Singh Lit. Criticism D.H. Lawrence iii. 55 Natural sex flow is the source not only of beauty but of intuition.

sex function n.

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1869 Practitioner June 338 These men [sc. in an insane asylum] are debarred from any natural exercise of their sex-function.

1929 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & Obscenity 15 The sex functions and the excrementory functions in the human body work so close together, yet they are..utterly different in direction.

1997 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 5 May a1 The vigorous bike ride facilitated arousal in women with normal sex function as well as those with low sex desire.

sex game n.

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a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. x. 244 The favorite children's games, often played in the open street with the elders looking on.., were sex games.

1976 J. Crosby Nightfall xxvi. 148 ‘Don't you like sex games?’ she said.

2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Aug. 5/2 Telling how humiliated she was by her husband's sex games.

sex guru n.

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1970 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 18 Sept. a3/2 Some of the most damning testimony to come out against the sex guru in the now 15-week-old trial.

2004 Eve Dec. 167/4 Could you go without sex..forever? Thousands of women do, says US sex guru.

sex-hate n.

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1914 H. de V. Stacpoole New Optimism iii. 107 The wicked and blasphemous people who talk of sex-hate.

1997 Guardian (Nexis) 30 Aug. t36 Their ‘fun night out’ ended with one of the worst sex-hate crimes in Britain since the Yorkshire Ripper killings of the late Seventies.

sex-hatred n.

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1897 E. B. Dietrick Women in Early Christian Ministry 52 The bitter misogyny of Tertullian's works, which were rousing fierce sex hatred on the part of men.

1998 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) (Nexis) 11 Oct. 9 It's this wistful wallflower who brings the undercurrents of violence and sex-hatred to full, tabloid-headline boil.

sex heredity n.

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1907 Science 8 Mar. 377/2 A very definite material basis, therefore, exists for a treatment of the sex characters as if they were Mendelian alternates, sex determination, as opposed to sex heredity, being a matter of Mendelian dominance.

1919 R. C. Punnett Mendelism (ed. 5) 100 They have been able to correlate these peculiar differences in sex-heredity with differences in the minute structure of the cells of which the bodies of the two sexes are composed.

1990 Times (Nexis) 20 July (Features section) He [sc. A. Parkes]..had published an essay on sex heredity in Science Progress [in 1921].

sex inertia n.

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1907 H. Adams Educ. Henry Adams xxx. 387 History looked doubtful when asked whether race-inertia had ever been overcome without destroying the race in order to reconstruct it; but surely sex-inertia had never been overcome at all.

1929 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & So On (1936) 45 You may even bring about a state of utter indifference and sex-inertia.

1997 S. A. Smith & R. P. Croll in T. Adams Reprod. Biol. Invertebr. VIII. iv. 76 Studies..showed that estradiol, progesterone, and testosterones are involved in stimulation of mitotic activity of the gonad at the stage of sex inertia.

sex instruction n.

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1907 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 13 25 On the part of the young, ignorance of the dangers which come from the irregular exercise of the sex function is compulsory; sound sex instruction is forbidden as improper.

1935 E. Bowen House in Paris i. iii. 42 We do not consider him ripe for direct sex-instruction yet, though my husband is working towards this through botany.

2006 Columbia Jrnl. Gender & Law (Nexis) 1 Jan. 12 These students are unlikely to appreciate that they should and could seek more comprehensive sex instruction from a more reliable source.

sex joke n.

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1910 I. Zangwill Ital. Fantasies xi. 404 The French..have too hobbledehoyish a devotion to the sex-joke, the Germans are too tamed, the Americans too untamed.

1941 ‘G. Orwell’ in Horizon 4 155 More than half, perhaps three-quarters, of the jokes are sex jokes.

2006 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 11 Sept. He cracked sex jokes..[and] flirted with reporters.

sex-killing n.

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1936 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 2 Sept. 1/6 (headline) 3 Quizzed in sex killing of rich spinster.

1997 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) May 82/1 The house was the scene of a vicious sex-killing.

sex-longing n.

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1912 J. D. Beresford Candidate for Truth 90 ‘She seems devoid of the sex longing.’ ‘Happily, yes!’

1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. II. iii. xiv. 183 All those..sex-longings..had long since been covered with an easy manner.

1958 New Statesman 5 Apr. 430/1 The mechanical two-dimensional sex-longings of a frustrated adolescent.

sex love n.

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1890 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 3 252 The basis of sex love among men is reproduction, and among savages exists as such and nothing more.

1976 R. Delmar in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley Rights & Wrongs of Women ix. 281 There are several conditions which, in Engels..make sex love the rule within the proletariat.

2007 M. R. B. Muhaiyaddeen God's Psychol. 126 One is true love and one is selfish love, sex love, carnal love.

sex magazine n.

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1920 D. Byrne Foolish Matrons xix. 271 She picked up a cheap sex magazine.

1980 P. Kinsley Vatchman Switch vii. 66 The customs officer..sold any sex-magazines he could confiscate from foreign tourists.

2003 E. Schlosser Reefer Madness iii. 117 A sex magazine produced at least twenty times the revenue per copy of a remaindered comic book.

sex man n.

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1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xii. §1 He was more than a sex-man.

2004 K. E. Riggs Granny @ Work iv. 95 There might be a pedophile. A sex man on there.

sex mania n.

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1895 Fortn. Rev. Apr. 592 Sex mania in art and literature can be but a passing phase.

1976 E. Trudgill Madonnas & Magdalens ix. 243 The hysterical reaction against aestheticism, the fiction of sexuality, and other symptoms of sex mania in literature, was partly the product of a sudden fear about the country's moral health.

sex maniac n.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] > lascivious or lustful person > extremely

erotomaniac1858

satyromaniac1891

sex maniac1893

1893 H. H. Gardener Facts & Fictions Life 185 That it [sc. the licence for debauchery allowed young men] should end in the wreck of the sex maniac himself and in his own destruction.

1971 Daily Tel. 14 Dec. 3 The Jersey sex maniac..was jailed for 30 years yesterday for 13 indecent and sexual offences against young girls and boys.

2001 P. Burston Shameless viii. 114 He already knew that David found his father attractive. What if the E turned his father into a sex maniac?

sex manifestation n.

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1899 E. Hubbard Little Journeys to Homes of Eminent Painters ii. 62 Ambition is the concomitant of rivalry, and sex is its chief promoter—it is a secondary sex manifestation.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female viii. 167 These [sc. seizures] are extremely violent, but without specific sex manifestations.

1990 J. Sapp Where Truth Lies iii. 72 [In Hartmann's theory of sexuality] the sex manifestation by a cell is the result of a weakening or strengthening of the expression of either the male or the female potency.

sex manual n.

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1922 T. J. Pierce (title) Sex manual: a scientific, physiological and hygienic study of the sex question.

1975 H. McCloy Minotaur Country iii. 21 He would be a sober, industrious lover. He would read all the sex manuals.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 31 Aug. 167/2 [The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex] is better than most sex manuals because it's comprehensive.

sex-mate n.

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1929 G. W. Deeping Roper's Row vii. § 1 She saw in him a man-child who would need the mother in woman more than the sex-mate.

1995 M. Garber Vice Versa iv. xxi. 488 And Jean knew Christopher's ‘sexmates’ but ‘showed no desire to share them’.

sex movie n.

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1921 New Castle (Pa.) News 19 Jan. 2/5 (heading) Prevent ‘sex’ movies in Chicago.

2004 D. Kepler in N. Foster Skin Deep 2 193 Making all that noise like you were in a sex movie. Nice girls don't do that.

sex novel n.

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1895 Critic (N.Y.) 23 Mar. 223/2 The tedious and tawdry sex-novel is long dead; even at the libraries it lies neglected in the catacombs.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 23/2 Amid the unmitigated torrent of sadistic sex novels works of reflection are tolerated only if they are..‘warmly human’.

2002 Sociol. Perspectives 45 155 In the course of a century, The Awakening moved from reviled sex novel..to revered icon firmly established in the pantheon of American literature.

sex obsession n.

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1897 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 2 Jan. 12/1 [Shakespeare] gave to its [sc. his London world's] perpetual sex-obsession the relief of individual character and feminine winsomeness.

1920 F. M. Ford Let. 19 Sept. (1965) 127 The end would be the most horribly costive neurastheniac you can imagine, with incredible sex obsessions sedulously concealed.

2004 Independent 22 June i. 32/1 The Britain I see around me every day howls with the pain of drugs, alcoholism, violence,..[and] sex obsession.

sex orgy n.

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1914 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 1 Mar. 5/6 A prolonged sex orgy set to music.

1962 J. Heller Catch-22 xxi. 208 Officers' clubs everywhere pulsated with blurred but knowing accounts of lavish, hushed-up drinking and sex orgies there.

2000 Elle Sept. 184/1 Incredibly involved sex, where the male half of one [hermaphrodite snail] is screwing the female half of the other, and vice versa—a sort of simultaneous, four-way sex orgy.

sex partner n.

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1913 W. A. McKeever Training the Boy 203 The mating off and choosing sex partners in the games, and the other forms of accentuating the individual sex consciousness.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female ix. 195 But patterns that regulate competition in the choice of sex partners are learned patterns.

2005 M. O'Connor Bitch Posse i. 5 [Sex] addicts do it with random people in dark alleys, strangers they'll never see again, have sex partners into the hundreds.

sex party n.

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1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iii. xiv. 267 Gang shag, sex party in the alley.

1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. i. 8 He told him of..his innumerable girls and sex-parties and pornographic pictures.

2007 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram (Nexis) 14 Sept. d8 Stories emerged that sex parties had been held for football recruits at Colorado.

sex power n.

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1903 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 21 Mar. 9/3 Fremont was a beautiful girl, a charming woman, had that mysterious sex power over men so much prattled about.

1977 London's Outrage i. 7 The bully-boy sex-power of Nazism/fascism is very attractive and an easy solution to our complex moral and social dilemmas.

2007 Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 19 May A man who lost his sex power through electric shock as he worked near Kenya Power and Lighting Company..live wires has been awarded Sh4 million.

sex pride n.

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1893 W. D. Howells Coast of Bohemia xii. 81 She had her sex-pride in the Synthesis..because..women had borne an important part in founding it.

1925 G. W. Deeping Three Rooms xxv. § 2 She was in a state of emotional confusion, rebel and lonely child, the victim of her unrealized sex-pride.

1994 Women's Rev. Bks. (Nexis) Jan. 11 Trying to whip up some old-fashioned sex pride among the demoralized troops.

sex privilege n.

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1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxvii. 105 You cannot have celebrity and sex-privilege both.

1924 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 24 834/2 Health is not a sex privilege.

2002 Washington Times (Nexis) 8 Aug. a17 The system of race and sex privileges known as quotas that are thoroughly institutionalized throughout the government, private industry and universities.

sex problem n.

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1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 399 To those who have studied the sex problem from the scientific stand-point, the doctrine that the sexes are thoroughly distinct mentally as well as physically goes without saying.

1900 J. X. Merriman Let. 1 July (1966) 222 The shrieking sisterhood who write on sex problems and scream out for votes.

1993 W. Self My Idea of Fun 150 There was this sex problem, of course, and there was something else, a rootlessness, an atemporality about my life.

sex question n.

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1880 N. Amer. Rev. July 69 In arguments upon the sex question it is usually claimed that women have a finer moral development than men.

1917 F. W. S. Browne in Proc. Brit. Soc. for Study Sex Psychol. 7 General early marriage, even if possible under present conditions, does not solve the sex question.

2007 University Wire (Nexis) 27 Sept. This is a bit embarrassing, but I'm sure all sex questions are. I just recently got together with my boyfriend... Our sex is, well, boring.

sex scandal n.

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1913 Des Moines (Iowa) News 31 Aug. 7/4 Mason is the woman in the case in a brand new sex scandal.

1958 A. Mayce tr. R. Lewinsohn Hist. Sexual Customs 176 There were sex-scandals in Protestant circles in no way behind those of papal Rome.

2002 Independent 27 Sept. 17/1 Australia's top intelligence agency is being undermined by sex scandals, nepotism and corruption.

sex show n.

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1948 Amarillo (Texas) Sunday News-Globe 8 Aug. 19/3 The regular run of movies have more suggestive scenes and lines than most sex shows.

2007 Boston Globe (Nexis) 16 Sept. m1 Prostitutes, explicit sex shows, and X-rated shops..abound.

sex slave n.

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1905 Arena Dec. 582/1 [He] still esteems it akin to treason for the sex-slave in marriage to refuse to render sex-service.

2007 Irish News (Nexis) 16 Aug. 28 He denied that Asian women were forced to work as sex slaves in military brothels during the war.

sex slavery n.

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1893 M. D. O'Brien Nat. Right to Freedom xvi. 261 The calm and peaceful ‘affinity’ of reason is independent of sex and lust, and no one need break their agreements or plunge into a sex slavery in order to find it.

2006 Winston-Salem (N. Carolina) Jrnl. (Nexis) 23 Aug. 10 Children are either sold into sex slavery by their parents or are kidnapped after being lured to the big cities with promises of work.

sex-specificity n.

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1922 G. S. Hall Senescence vi. 298 Male and female hormones..have a sex specificity that is the main factor in directing growth.

1947 V. G. Dethier Chem. Insect Attractants & Repellents 19 There are reasons why sex specificity also must exist... The food preferences of both sexes are not always identical (e.g., mosquitoes).

2001 D. Rowland et al. Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour i. 5 All too frequently, the findings from samples of females are discussed as being female-specific, but single-sex studies cannot address the sex-specificity of their findings.

sex starvation n.

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1894 E. Carpenter Marriage in Free Soc. 11 The special evils of sex-starvation and sex-ignorance on the one hand, and of mere licentiousness on the other.

1994 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 26 Nov. 4 It was generally infidelity as a result of sex starvation that led to the final [marriage] breakdown.

sex stereotype n.

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1949 M. Mead Male & Female vi. 137 A sex stereotype that decries the interests..of each sex is usually not completely without a basis.

1999 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 15 Apr. a15 Sex stereotypes are endorsed if they're positive (e.g. that women are more nurturing than men) and denounced if they're negative (e.g., that women are less intelligent than men).

sex stereotyping n.

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1946 G. H. Seward Sex & Social Order ix. 113 We should also bear in mind that the problem of sex stereotyping is complicated by the factor of emotional security.

2005 Irish Independent (Nexis) 4 May A Vodafone newspaper ad was held guilty of sex stereotyping. It carried a picture of five cleaners, all women.

sex story n.

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1896 in H. Kingsley Austin Elliot (Advt. section) To readers who are weary of ‘problem-studies’ and sex-stories..the volume will afford infinite pleasure.

1936 ‘G. Orwell’ Keep Aspidistra Flying xi. 295 Fools demanding crime-stories and sex-stories and romances.

2004 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 400/2 A black rain of political agendas, deadline pressures, raging lawyers, and weird sex stories.

sex talk n.

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1910 E. H. Muncie Four Epochs Life vii. 54 This first little sex talk to my boy I hope to make the foundation of a series of Nature Stories.

1931 G. J. Renier English iv. 85 The wide-spread ignorance of the technique of love among average Englishmen..results from the taboo on direct sex-talk.

1977 ‘C. Fremlin’ Spider-orchid xiii. 94 They have these sex talks..at school from the age of nine.

2000 W. Self How Dead Live (2001) iv. 94 All this Freudian sex talk was the preview, a blabbermouthed precursor of all the feckless promiscuity that was to follow in the sixties.

sex thrill n.

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1913 Indianapolis Star 20 July 26/7 The modern girl can not understand that exquisite spirit which permeates ‘Little Women’, but they respond to the sex thrill of plays like ‘The Common Law’.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover i. 6 In the actual sex-thrill within the body, the sisters nearly succumbed to the strange male power.

2007 Daily Star (Nexis) 13 Sept. 26 [Men] found it the ultimate sex thrill during a night out when their girl suddenly announced: ‘I'm not wearing any [knickers] tonight.’

sex union n.

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1871 S. S. Hennell Present Relig. (1873) II. i. 417 Individuality..depends..on relational influences..and especially on subjection to that primal one of Sex-union, round which all of the others are grouped.

1923 M. C. Stopes Contraception iii. 39 The type of woman who..has acquired the view that all sex union after the procreation of the desired number of children has been accomplished, is wrong.

1996 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 June x. 1 There is a chapter ‘Sexual Entitlement Therapy’, where impotency strikes all sex unions, except those based on love and equality.

sex war n.

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1905 D. Forster Sex Radicalism vi. 26 Among the worst effects of the sex war are the divisions it causes among women.

1969 M. Pugh Last Place Left vii. 45 She was a freedom fighter in the sex war.

2001 C. Coker Humane Warfare iv. 86 The ‘Nation of Islam’..was profoundly conservative on the issue of the sex war. It segregated women at its meetings.

sex warfare n.

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1896 B. Russell German Social Democracy 176 Mary Wollstonecraft, in her ‘Vindication of the Rights of Women’, sketched the problem as one of sex warfare, with a democratic rather than a socialistic solution.

1994 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 8 Mar. 26 Both women are black, so the tension grows out of class and sex warfare rather than race.

C2. Forming adjectives.

sex-abusing adj.

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1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 415 Sin, that in old time Brought fire from heav'n, the sex-abusing crime.

1978 Amer. Jrnl. Orthopsychiatry 48 250 We have seen striking growth in passively sex-abusing women.

2006 Nation (Nexis) 6 Jan. 3 The Catholic Church..can no longer condone cover-ups to protect sex-abusing priests.

† sex-alive adj. Obsolete rare

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1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 156 Now you've come sex-alive, and the great ranch dogs are all after you.

† sex-angry adj. Obsolete rare

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1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo xiii. 294 You can reason with a sex-angry woman till you are black in the face.

sex-conscious adj.

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1899 ‘G. F. Monkshood’ Rudyard Kipling 124 Mrs. Mountstuart cannot shine till she is self-conscious and sex-conscious.

1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer ii. 30 But she's certainly a sex-conscious girl. It's in her voice, in the way she sits, the way she drinks.

2007 Financial Times (Nexis) 6 Feb. 11 The title of Jack Thorne's Fanny and Faggot leads you to expect something more intensely sex-conscious and homosexually orientated than you are given.

sex-crazed adj.

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1920 O. A. Hill Ethics ii. v. 276 Dr. Averling..lived as a husband with Eleanor Marx... When his love grew cold, she drank poison. Averling sex-crazed soon after died.

1954 R. P. Bissell High Water xx. 218 Well I'm reading this here story about a sex-crazed maniac.

2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 Apr. iva. 31/2 A sex-crazed media culture in which many feminists are adopting a[n]..approach that views pornography as expression, not exploitation.

sex-emancipated adj.

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1912 Buffalo (N.Y.) Evening Times 23 Aug. 9/2 You talk with a certain condescension, even with a kind of praise, of the sex-emancipated woman... Emancipated woman! Why, she is nothing but a monster!

1929 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & Obscenity 27 The most high-flown sex-emancipated young people.

1940 S. Atlantic Q. Jan. 35 Popular triumph by glorifying the sex-emancipated woman was not for her [sc. Constance Woolson]; that theme and its exponents violently displeased her.

sex-hungry adj.

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1916 T. Dreiser Hoosier Holiday xliv. 364 Those who, sex hungry or wealth hungry or adventure hungry, have no part or parcel with morality.

2005 People (Nexis) 20 Mar. (Features section) 8 Thousands of sex-hungry married men and women are logging on in search of sleazy one-night stands with strangers.

sex-mad adj.

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1895 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 13 Jan. 11/4 It has been said that the modern school of French novelists is sex mad.

1943 E. M. Almedingen Frossia ii. 58 Look at all this promiscuity... They have all gone sex-mad.

2001 Sun 27 Jan. 6/1 A sex-mad monk who groped four women in the Confessional Room..was yesterday jailed for six years.

sex-obsessed adj.

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1909 P. White Love & Wise Men xxiii. 276 The first English philosopher to point out that art, literature, politics and human society generally are sex-obsessed.

1979 London Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 13/1 Civilised human beings are remarkable among animal species for being sex-obsessed.

2002 N.Y. Times 14 Apr. iv. 13/6 Rome doesn't care a fig about the hurt feelings of spoiled, sex-obsessed Americans.

sex-related adj.

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1909 C. P. Gilman in Papers & Proc. 3rd Ann. Meeting Amer. Sociol. Soc.,1908 3 16 We must consider it [sc. the family] first on its biological basis, as a sex-related group for the purpose of rearing young.

1977 Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 9- c/1 A high-ranking official of Planned Parenthood says television's standards on sex-related programming should be as much a public issue as its standards on televised violence.

2007 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 3 Mar. 4 b A..bill..which would require felons who get probation to provide a DNA sample if their crimes were violent or sex-related offenses.

sex-segregated adj.

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1923 E. B. Reuter Population Probl. xvi. 242 Studies have shown that the marriage rate of college graduates is less than the average of the population... This is true..of the graduates of the co-educational schools as well as those of the sex-segregated type.

2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex ii. 92 The house was sex-segregated like the houses in the patridha , the old country, men in the sala , women in the kitchen.

sex-smelling adj.

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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 512 The dark sexsmelling theatre unbridles vice.

1984 Callaloo 22 160 One-night trysts in cheap, sex-smelling motel rooms.

sex-specific adj.

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1921 Sci. Monthly June 495 By an age and sex specific death rate is meant the rate got by dividing the number of persons of a particular specified age and sex dying from a particular cause by the total number of persons living in the same population of the same age and sex.

1964 G. Pincus et al. Hormones IV. iii. 145 This inhibitory hormone from the brain is neither species nor sex specific.

1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 178 The disinclination to spend hour upon hour in the kitchen every night is not sex-specific.

sex-starved adj.

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1920 R. Van Saun Honey-comb 396 The sex-starved woman carries an offensive odor.

1978 M. Birmingham Sleep in Ditch 164 Their first guess is that I'm a sex-starved grass-widow, glimpsing seducers behind every door.

2003 J. R. Lennon Mailman i. vi. 317 Amateur Hotties: page upon page of..young-to-middle-aged women baring all for..the lonesome sex-starved jerkoffs of America.

sex-transforming adj.

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1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. E^v Mad-making waters, sex trans-forming springs.

1922 Amer. Naturalist 56 199 If environment..plays such an important sex transforming rôle, why do male tadpoles never transform into females.

1993 Evolution 47 488 Sex-transforming mutations with temperature-dependant expression have been found in Drosophila..and nematodes.

C3.

† sex-abolitionist n. Obsolete a person who seeks to abolish sexual differences, or discrimination on the basis of sex.Apparently an isolated use.

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1887 Jrnl. Educ. Jan. 29 If this examination craze is to prevail, and the sex-abolitionists are to have their way.

sex act n. [compare earlier sexual act (compare quot. 1880 at sexual adj. 4a); compare also French acte sexuel (1883)] a sexual action or activity, especially the act of sexual intercourse.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > an act of

swivec1560

fall1594

sleep1612

fuck1663

merry bout1780

stroke1785

screw?c1845

charver1846

fuckeea1866

sex act1888

frigc1890

grind1893

mount1896

poke1902

tumble1903

screwing1904

ride1905

roll1910

trick1926

lay1932

jump1934

bang1937

knock1937

shag1937

a roll in the hay1945

boff1956

naughty1959

root1961

shtup1964

home run1967

seeing to1970

legover1975

bonk1978

zatch1980

boink1989

1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 329 Forms like the parent plant are produced by means of so-called spores... They are..no more a product of the sex act than the buds used in grafting.

1894 E. Carpenter Homogenic Love 34 That any kind of love-union could exist in which the sex act might possibly not be the main object was an incredible proposition.

1958 Listener 21 Aug. 263/1 A consciousness of guilt in the sex act.

2003 E. Schlosser Reefer Madness iii. 114 ‘Hard-core’ now generally refers to porn in which the intercourse or oral sex is..unmistakably real. In soft-core porn these sex acts may be simulated.

sex aid n. a device designed for sexual stimulation or to enhance sexual pleasure or performance; a sex toy; cf. marital aid n. at marital adj. Compounds.

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1964 Times (San Mateo, Calif.) 31 Mar. 8/2 The eternal search for youth has made elderly people the prime targets for the peddling of sex aids and potency pills.

1976 M. Schofield Promiscuity xv. 219 It may be possible to make use of sex aids like vibrators; and erotic books, pictures or films might be helpful in some situations.

2006 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 9 Mar. 25 Permission to sell explicit products, including R18-rated videos and sex aids.

sex appeal n. character or quality which appeals to the sexual instinct; (originally, in a play, novel, etc.) sexuality or sexual relations as a theme; (later, in a person, esp. a woman) sexual attractiveness (also figurative); cf. S.A. n. at S n.¹ Initialisms 1.

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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > sex appeal

sexual attraction?1798

sex appeal1903

it1904

oomph1937

bed-worthiness1959

1903 Lamp (N.Y.) Sept. 161/1 That indefinable something which, throughout the history of this sad old world, has given certain worthless men an irresistible power of sex appeal to women.

1910 Current Lit. July The play which contains no sex appeal is described by professional critics as being ‘undramatic’ or ‘not a play at all’.

1913 F. A. Kummer Song of Sixpence Pref. Did not the fact that the vast majority of women devote the bulk of their..energy to personal adornment argue that they themselves regard sex appeal as their most valuable asset?

1924 Amer. Mercury 2 318/1 An actress with sex appeal is four times out of five a more effective actress.

1953 Encounter Nov. 32/2 For the frustrated and starved, it [sc. Communism] has all the sex-appeal of a strong, monolithic creed.

2003 N.Y. Mag. 11 Aug. 38/2 This babe..shows you can be covered up and still ooze sex appeal.

sex-appeal v. transitive to attract or appeal to (someone) sexually; (also) intransitive to be sexually attractive.

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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > attract [verb (transitive)] > attract sexually

sex-appeal1924

1924 G. R. Chester On Lot & Off 25 She'd sex appeal me all right!

1928 Sunday Disp. 9 Dec. 12/3 A person not being ‘sex-appealed’ is simply inconceivable to them.

2004 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 23 Mar. e4 Actor Landon Vaughn makes you see both why he sex-appealed to Evy.

sex-appealing adj. having or exerting sex appeal.

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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [adjective] > sexually attractive

nymphic1799

sexy1912

sex-appealing1923

hotcha1924

hot1926

ooh-la-la1929

bed-worthy1936

beddable1941

phat1963

smoking1989

kewl1990

smoking hot1994

bess2006

1923 G. L. Morrill Near Hell in Far East 256 How unlike our vulgar, sex-appealing jazzes that some consider social accomplishments.

1932 News Chron. 20 June 4/1 Both [stories] are glittering, glamorous, sex-appealing.

1994 Russ. Press Digest (Nexis) 4 Nov. 1 Provocative pictures of Grachev in the company of a sex-appealing pop-singer.

sex attractant n. chiefly Zoology a volatile substance produced by an individual in order to attract others of the same species for the purpose of mating; a synthetic substance with the same property; a sexual pheromone; also attributive or as adj.

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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > external influences > [noun] > pheromone

gamone1942

sex attractant1952

Nassanoff pheromone1959

pheromone1959

bombykol1961

primer1963

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > scent-gland > sex attractant

sex attractant1952

1952 Amer. Midland Naturalist 47 107 The sex attractant is produced chiefly by virgin females.

1964 Listener 27 Aug. 291/2 The study of sex-attractant odours in insects has shown that these may be so highly specific that a very slight change in their chemical structure may make them less effective or even quite ineffective.

1996 Amateur Gardening 25 May 14/1 I saw..an answer about controlling codling moths with a pheromone trap, based on attracting the male moths to a sticky board using a sex attractant.

2005 New Scientist (Nexis) 29 Jan. 17 A mystery chemical that young women deploy as a sex attractant pheromone seems to work for post-menopausal women too.

sex-blind adj. blind to or unaware of sex or sexual differences; (now) spec. that does not discriminate between the sexes.

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1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row v. 44 He was sex blind, a little celibate with eyes that saw nothing in woman save a creature anatomically different from man.

1967 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 29 799/1 Forcing those in decision-making posts to discard all they think, feel, and know about sex in favor of sex-blind policies.

2006 University Wire (Nexis) 4 May Even in those fields or workplaces alleged to be race- or sex-blind, white men consistently out-earn women and minorities.

sexboat n. U.S. slang = sexpot n.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > that which excites > sexually exciting person

a bit (also piece) of all right1895

hot stuff1908

sex object1911

hot pants1938

sexpot1953

sex bomb1954

sexboat1955

1955 Los Angeles Times 8 May iv. 6/1 In the 20s Harriet was a ‘new’ woman—faintly Boehmian, faintly incredible... Now she is Gloria Grahame—a sex-boat and a lady.

1988 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 1 Apr. e1 Hutchence has the skinniest legs of any sex-boat, bo-hunk lead singer in the world.

2004 R. Kubey Creating Television viii. 324 She was the best home economist in the world, but in her mind, she was a devastating sexboat.

sex bomb n. colloquial a person, esp. a woman, who is very sexually exciting or active; cf. sexpot n.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > that which excites > sexually exciting person

a bit (also piece) of all right1895

hot stuff1908

sex object1911

hot pants1938

sexpot1953

sex bomb1954

sexboat1955

1954 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 19 June 4/5 She has such a fiery disposition to go with her sensual beauty and well-distributed curves, that enthusiastic West Germans are calling her the ‘Yugoslav Sex Bomb’.

1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds iii. 42 Sex-bomb, Sonya Stelling might be. Oscar contender she was not.

2006 Brides Sept. 97/1 Remind him he's marrying a sex bomb..by giving him the sexiest strip show he's ever seen.

sex call n. (a) Zoology a vocal call used for attracting a mate or initiating mating; (in extended use) any other signal having such a function; (b) a sexually explicit telephone call, spec. one made for the purpose of sexual gratification (cf. phone sex n. at phone n.² Compounds 2).

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1901 Lancet 5 Jan. 50/2 Certain lizards of the South African veldt, the so-called ‘clucking sand lizards’ do, as their name suggests, utter a ‘cluck’, which in their case is probably a sex-call.

1927 New Internat. Encycl.: Suppl. II. 1498/1 This light in the firefly is used as a sex call.

1951 R. Rugh Frog iii. 41 Amplexus is achieved as the females reach the ponds where the males are emitting their sex calls.

1976 M. Wilding Scenic Drive 84 I've put a woman's name in the phone book so I get the sex calls. Then I can tape them.

1976 Family Health June 25/3 The problem has been to find a way to isolate and identify the chemical ‘sex call’ of each species.

1995 Mammalian Species No. 488. 5/1 Captive [civet] females often emit characteristic sex calls, to which the male responds with a contact call.

2007 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 14 July (Mag.) w14 Belle takes sex calls while watching TV and Adam lives more in his computer than the real world.

sex cell n. Biology a reproductive cell, either male or female in function; a gamete (sperm or egg cell), or a cell which gives rise to gametes.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > reproductive cell

sexual cell1860

oocyst1875

thelyblast1877

sex cell1889

1889 P. Geddes & J. A. Thomson Evol. Sex 91 Very commonly the sex-cells originate in the ectoderm and ripen there.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. i. 11 Sexual multiplication by means of special germ-cells or sex-cells is much more economical.

1999 Independent 27 May i. 9/8 Scientists believe the sex cells, or germ line, in the gonads monitor levels of reproduction and send out signals that cause the ageing of highly fertile worms.

sex change n. a change of sex; esp. a change in a person's physical sexual characteristics brought about by surgery, hormone treatment, etc.; also attributive.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > reassignment of sex or gender

transexion1646

sex reversal1910

sex change1922

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > sexual organs > sex change

sex change1922

1922 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 14 Sept. 11/3 Dr. Orton thinks that the sex change [in oysters] is due to changes in the environment.

1960 20th Century Mar. 258 Sex-change may well seem, as The Times said, ‘unprepossessing’ as a subject for comedy.

1970 Daily Tel. 21 Dec. 2/6 More people with transsexual problems are seeking National Health sex-change operations.

1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes x. 139/2 Many fishes go through a prematurational sex change, differentiating but not maturing first as females, with some individuals later changing to males.

2000 Ralph 7 July 66/2 I had a sex change 11 years ago, I've worked with transgender people for more than 10 years.

sex character n. = sexual character n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 1.

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1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 994 There are a few abnormal individuals of each sex, whose sex characters are not pronounced.

1948 C. D. Turner Gen. Endocrinol. viii. 263 The primary sex characters are the gonads.

1998 Isis 89 461 The female puberty-gland did not just leave the male sex characters alone: it actively inhibited them.

sex characteristic n. = sexual character n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 1.

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1890 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 17 103 The value of some distinguishing sex characteristic in the case of seedling Ailanthus trees..would be appreciated by all who are acquainted with these ornamental trees.

1951 A. Grollman Pharmacol. & Therapeutics xxvi. 581 The estrogenic hormones are responsible for certain secondary sex characteristics in the female, such as the plumage markings of some birds.

2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex i. 41 I possess all the secondary sex characteristics of a normal man except one: my inability to synthesize dihydrotestosterone has made me immune to baldness.

sex chromatin n. Biology (originally) the material of the sex chromosomes; the part of the chromatin of a cell which acts as a sex determinant; (later) spec. the material comprising a small heterochromatic mass (the Barr body, believed to be an inactivated X chromosome), of which there is one in a normal (XX) female cell and in general one less than the number of X (or Z) chromosomes in a cell.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > chromatin

chromatin1882

oxychromatin1894

basichromatin1902

trophochromatin1905

sex chromatin1909

heterochromatin1932

1909 G. N. Calkins Protozoöl. 257 A statement which, if true, gives..confirmation of the early hypothesis of Balfour and Minot that the nucleus of the primordial egg or sperm cell contains both kinds of sex chromatin, the opposite kind being eliminated by the reducing divisions of each sex.

1952 Graham & Barr in Anat. Rec. 112 709 The term ‘sex influenced chromatin’, or simply ‘sex chromatin’, will be used in the description to follow for the nuclear structure characterized by a size relation to sex.

1962 Lancet 27 Jan. 216/2 In all cases the sex-chromatin pattern was shown to be consistent with the morphological sex.

1994 D. Tulchinsky & A. B. Little Maternal–Fetal Endocrinol. (ed. 2) xv. 300/2 The inactive X chromosome is attached to the inner surface of the nuclear envelope as a heterochromatic body, also known as the Barr body or sex chromatin body.

sex-chromosomal adj. Biology of or relating to the sex chromosomes.

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1913 Jrnl. Exper. Zool. 15 593 The two white females..came from the union of the two-X egg with the no-X sperm of the vermillion pink male, and should be entirely maternal and entirely non-paternal in sex chromosomal composition, i.e., they should be exact counterparts..of their mother.

1994 A. Kolker & B. M. Burke Prenatal Testing iv. 48 Only a few counselors routinely mentioned sex chromosomal abnormalities.

sex chromosome n. Biology each of the chromosomes (normally two in number) in a cell's chromosomal complement, the particular combination of which normally determines an individual's sex; contrasted with autosome n.In humans and other mammals, normal females have two X chromosomes, males one X and one Y. In birds and some other animals, males have two Z chromosomes, females one Z and one W.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > chromosome > types of chromosome

chromoplastid1885

accessory chromosome1899

chromoplast1902

X1902

heterochromosome1904

idiochromosome1905

macrochromosome1905

allosome1906

autosome1906

monosome1906

sex chromosome1906

supernumerary1907

X chromosome1911

Y chromosome1911

univalent1912

euchromosome1914

W1917

monosome1921

tetrasome1921

trisome1921

heterosome1938

isochromosome1939

trisomic1939

metacentric1945

acrocentric1949

polycentric1953

Philadelphia chromosome1961

monocentric1979

1906 E. B. Wilson in Jrnl. Exper. Zool. 3 28 These chromosomes are the bearers of the male and female qualities (or the factors essential to the production of these qualities) respectively. They may also be designated (whenever it is desirable to avoid circumlocution) as sex-chromosomes.

1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 46 From all the facts, we can, I think, be sure that all the higher animals possess special X or sex-chromosomes, two in one sex, one in the other, by whose agency sex is determined.

1974 U. Goodenough & R. P. Levine Genetics x. 466 The sex of a fly is determined, in part, by the number of euchromatic sex chromosomes, called X chromosomes, possessed by an individual.

2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex iv. 411 The webbed-necked girl teens with Turner's syndrome, who had only one sex chromosome, a lonely X.

sex comedy n. a play, film, or television programme which combines erotic and comic elements, or whose plot centres on romantic relationships or sexual encounters.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > type of programme

dramedy1905

news film1912

sex comedy1915

television adaptation1935

action comedy1936

sportcast1939

teleshopper1949

telethon1949

special1952

television special1952

TV special1952

science-fictioner1953

spectacular1954

promo1955

sitcom1956

spec1959

spin-off1959

reality programming1962

teleroman1964

mockumentary1965

serialization1965

talk show1965

laugh-in1967

novela1968

reality show1968

breakfast television1971

spy series1975

reality television1978

reality TV1980

series1988

shockumentary1988

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > other types of comedy

Old Comedy1529

New Comedy1542

comedy of errors?1595

romantic comedy1748

musical comedy1765

comédie larmoyante1773

sketch1789

serio-comedy1808

vaudeville1827

teacup-and-saucer comedy1842

satyr play1845

Restoration comedy1866

zarzuela1888

situation comedy1893

sex comedy1915

sitcom1956

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types

romantic comedy1748

epic1785

pre-release1871

foreign film1899

frivol1903

dramedy1905

film loop1906

first run1910

detective film1911

colour film1912

news film1912

topical1912

cinemicrograph1913

scenic1913

sport1913

newsreel1914

serial1914

sex comedy1915

war picture1915

telefilm1919

comic1920

true crime1923

art house1925

quickie1926

turkey1927

two-reeler1928

smellie1929

disaster film1930

musical1930

feelie1931

sticky1934

action comedy1936

quota quickie1936

re-release1936

screwball comedy1937

telemovie1937

pickup1939

video film1939

actioner1940

space opera1941

telepic1944

biopic1947

kinescope1949

TV movie1949

pièce noire1951

pièce rose1951

deepie1953

misterioso1953

film noir1956

policier1956

psychodrama1956

free film1958

prequel1958

co-production1959

glossy1960

sexploiter1960

sci-fier1961

tie-in1962

chanchada1963

romcom1963

wuxia1963

chick flick1964

showreel1964

mockumentary1965

sword-and-sandal1965

schlockbuster1966

mondo1967

peplum1968

thriller1968

whydunit1968

schlocker1969

buddy-buddy movie1972

buddy-buddy film1974

buddy film1974

science-fictioner1974

screwball1974

buddy movie1975

slasher movie1975

swashbuckler1975

filmi1976

triptych1976

autobiopic1977

Britcom1977

kidflick1977

noir1977

bodice-ripper1979

chopsocky1981

date movie1983

kaiju eiga1984

screener1986

neo-noir1987

indie1990

bromance2001

hack-and-slash2002

mumblecore2005

dark fantasy2007

hack-and-slay2007

gorefest2012

kidult-

1915 Catal. Copyright Entries: Pt. 1, Group 2 (Libr. of Congr. Copyright Office) 12 235/1 Adamless (The) Eden; sex comedy in 3 acts, by C. Moore.

1970 Observer 31 May 38/5 A haphazardly contrived sex comedy played for more than its worth by a skilled cast.

2014 K. Feil in M. DeAngelis Reading Bromance vi. 167 Vulgarity..figured centrally in..1980s male-dominated ‘gross-out’ sex comedies.

sex crime n. a crime involving sexual assault, or having a sexual motive; crime of this nature.

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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > offence involving sex

sexual offence1840

sexual assault1883

sex crime1906

sex offence1910

1906 Physiol. Sex for Parents 68 In different countries sex crime is handled in various ways.

1908 T. Travis Young Malefactor 26 Manslaughter, murder, sex crimes, [etc.].

1925 Amer. Mercury Feb. 196 Sex crimes, which are commonly regarded as a natural result of drug taking, actually never occur among addicts.

2000 N.Y. Times 6 Aug. i. 28/1 Since 1991, state health law has required emergency rooms to examine survivors of sex crimes with rape kits.

sex criminal n. a person who commits a sex crime or crimes.

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1914 San Antonio (Texas) Light 22 Mar. 42/4 As we have murderers among us, so we have these sex criminals, though not in anything like the same numbers.

1972 J. Symons Players & Game xv. 100 Inadequacy. That's the mark of sex criminals.

2001 C. Palahniuk Choke ii. 15 Prostitutes and sex criminals out on a three-hour release from their minimum-security jail.

sex determinant n. Biology a factor (esp. a genetic factor) which determines an individual's sex.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > gene > types of gene

sex determinant1902

sex determiner1909

inhibitor1911

multiple factor1912

modifier1915

autosomal dominant1919

autosomal recessive1919

scute1923

gene1925

suppressor1928

rate gene1932

dominigene1938

buffer1939

polygene1941

switch gene1942

mutator1943

oligogene1943

sickle cell gene1946

supergene1949

ob1950

obese1950

regulator1960

regulator gene1960

regulatory gene1960

enhancer1967

oncogene1969

virogene1969

hedgehog1980

1902 Biol. Bull. 3 73 If we accept the theory that chromatin is the bearer of hereditary qualities, there could be little doubt regarding the necessary chromosomic character of a sex determinant.

1926 R. S. Lull Org. Evol. x. 151 Among certain animals,..variation in nutrition is a sex determinant.

1995 Science 6 Oct. 113/2 The search for genetic sex determinants has involved several false starts.

sex determination n. Biology the biological process by which an individual becomes male or female.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > sex determination

sex determination1889

sex control1911

1889 P. Geddes & J. A. Thomson Evol. Sex iii. 49 The temperature of the time, not of birth but of sex determination, must of course be noted.

1909 R. H. Lock Variation, Heredity, & Evol. ix. 277 It is not necessarily to be supposed that the above description of the facts of sex-determination will hold good for every kind of organism.

1936 S. J. Holmes Human Genetics & its Social Import iv. 44 Sex determination would..appear to be settled at the time of fertilization, when the individual receives his or her allotment of chromosomes.

1977 Dædalus Fall 137 Primitive wasps..evolved the sex determination mechanism of haplodiploidy, whereby unfertilized eggs yield males and fertilized eggs yield females.

2005 New Scientist 15 Jan. 42/3 The fact that these insects have evolved sociality perhaps a dozen times owes much to their curious method of sex determination.

sex determiner n. Biology a gene which determines the sex of the individual bearing it.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > gene > types of gene

sex determinant1902

sex determiner1909

inhibitor1911

multiple factor1912

modifier1915

autosomal dominant1919

autosomal recessive1919

scute1923

gene1925

suppressor1928

rate gene1932

dominigene1938

buffer1939

polygene1941

switch gene1942

mutator1943

oligogene1943

sickle cell gene1946

supergene1949

ob1950

obese1950

regulator1960

regulator gene1960

regulatory gene1960

enhancer1967

oncogene1969

virogene1969

hedgehog1980

1909 Science 5 Mar. 397/2 Bateson completes the explanation by offering the further suggestion that there is no disjunction of the sex-characters in spermatogenesis because the male does not carry the female sex-determiner at all.

1960 E. J. Gardner Princ. Genetics vii. 123/2 When the parallelism was discovered between the chromosome cycle and gene behaviour it was generally assumed that genes other than sex determiners were also located in the sex chromosomes.

2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory v. 460 In these developmental studies, Goldschmidt recognized normal sexuality as a quantitative phenomenon produced by a balance of male and female sex determiners.

sex-determining adj. Biology determining an individual's sex.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [adjective] > sex determination

sex-determining1896

1896 Amer. Naturalist 30 269 In frogs, butterflies, etc. the sex determining power of the soma has been experimentally demonstrated.

1901 P. Geddes & J. A. Thomson Evol. Sex (ed. 2) 51 In regard to rotifers (Hydatina), Maupas maintains that temperature is the sex-determining factor.

1966 Lancet 24 Dec. 1397/1 This discrepancy between mammals and birds..might reflect different evolutionary origins of chromosomal sex-determining mechanisms in the two classes.

1998 Science 25 Sept. 1990/2 Generally, in mammals, maleness is determined by the presence of the Y-linked gene Sex-determining region Y (Sry).

sex-discriminating adj. that discriminates or differentiates the sex of something; (also) that discriminates against a person (typically a woman) on grounds of sex.

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1955 Evolution 9 219/2 If it [sc. a snake] was..another coral snake, the proper sex discriminating releasers would probably be elicited and courtship or aggressive behavior..would result.

1964 C. Barber Ling. Change Present-day Eng. iv. 105 The sex-discriminating word used to indicate that the member of some profession or the holder of some office is a woman.

1976 Listener 4 Mar. 264/3 I do not care if it is unfair, or sex-discriminating, for a woman to get an old age pension five years before a man.

2003 University Wire (Nexis) 5 Nov. Wal-Mart is... a sex-discriminating, union-busting..mega-giant that will do anything to maintain superiority over its employees.

sex discrimination n. discrimination or differentiation on grounds of sex; spec. = sexual discrimination n. (b) at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 1.

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society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex

sexism1866

sex discrimination1885

male chauvinism1935

phallocentricity1970

gender discrimination1973

phallocentrism1975

phallocracy1977

male-bashing1986

1885 Daily Nebraska State Jrnl. 11 Dec. 3/5 One [of the buildings] will be used for a male and the other for a female college. The plan is so broad as to shut out sex discrimination.

1916 Campaign Text-bk. (National Woman's Party) 62 Enfranchised women in the United States regard the removal of sex discrimination from our national constitution as a political need of primary importance.

1965 Financial Times 24 Nov. 3/3 New guideline interpretations on sex discrimination have just been issued by the Commission... So far the Commission has received over 400 complaints of sex discrimination.

2000 N.Y. Times 5 May b10/6 A black job-seeker..charged that race and sex discrimination barred her from being hired as a driver.

sex-discriminatory adj. that discriminates against a person or group (esp. women) on grounds of sex.

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1929 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 143 267/1 They are some of the minorities who, through superior skill or opportunity, have found their way to places seldom filled by women, and who therefore find sex-discriminatory laws endangering their economic security.

2004 Jrnl. Social Issues (Nexis) 22 Dec. 755 When people conceive of women as nice and men as competent, they are less likely to notice and dismantle sex discriminatory practices than when they conceive of women and men as equally nice and equally competent.

sex doll n. (a) = sex kitten n.; (b) a sex toy resembling a woman's body in shape, size, and appearance.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > that which excites > sexually exciting person > specifically female > young woman who asserts sexual attractiveness

sex doll1934

sex kitten1958

1934 W. Deeping Seven Men came Back xxii. 340 She would go and meet Sherring as the complete dowd,..in stockings that were most unprovocative. Figging up the silly sex-doll because a mere man was expected! Just like some little wench.

1962 Lima (Ohio) News 20 Mar. 10/6 Janet, who became a sex doll in ‘The Day the Earth Caught Fire’.

1967 Film Q. Summer 61/2 Anna permits Stephen to make love to her, submitting limply like a rubber sex doll.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Mar. b31/4 After..coming into possession of a life-size, molded plastic sex doll with the body of a 20-year-old woman, he develops an erotic obsession with the toy.

sex drive n. the urge to seek satisfaction of sexual needs.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > sex drive or instinct

sex impulse1883

sex instinct1883

libido1909

sex drive1916

sex urge1920

1916 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 21 June 8/6 That so much trouble and evil come to people through the sex drive is due to the fact that it is that emotion which most influences character.

1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 54 There may be a period..when the sex-drive is latent.

2002 Daily Tel. 5 July 20/7 A field trial involving muira puama found that about two out of three women with self-reported loss of sex drive noticed an improvement in intensity of sexual desire.

sex-free adj. (a) having a liberal attitude towards sex (now rare); (b) not involving sex.

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the mind > emotion > love > [adjective] > relating to platonic or non-sexual love

Platonical1612

Platonic1631

unlibidinous1667

unamorous1668

unsensual1850

asexual1894

supersexual1895

sex-free1929

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [adjective] > specific towards sex

sex-free1929

1929 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & Obscenity 24 But the bohemian is ‘sex free’.

1960 Encounter Sept. 72/1 Gerda is one of those sex-free affairs between tormented men and life-accepting women.

2006 Sunday Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. (Style section) 47 Sex is a huge part of intimacy... There are couples who say they enjoy successful sex-free relationships, but they are rare.

sex gene n. Biology a gene responsible for determining sex.

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1911 Amer. Naturalist 45 69 These chromosomes undoubtedly contain many other factors than those of sex whose presence might obscure size relations even when such exist in the sex genes.

1951 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 16 173/2 Similarly in Drosophila, the sex gene is diffuse, scattered throughout the active portion of the X [chromosome].

2003 S. Greenfield Tomorrow's People (2004) v. 129 Hundreds of diseases are linked in this way to the sex genes, and other genes relating to diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, are found on other chromosomes.

sex gland n. Biology (usually in plural) a glandular organ associated with reproductive functions; esp. a gonad considered in terms of its production of sex hormones.

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1877 A. Wilson Zoology v. 81 In Anodon..the sex-gland, as the reproductive organ is named, is situated on the foot-mass, and grows very large in the winter and spring.

1916 Arch. Internal Med. 17 887 We may consider boys in the period of prepubescence as individuals..as yet scarcely influenced by the internal secretions of the sex glands.

1954 I. Asimov Chemicals of Life ix. 126 The gonads..are sometimes called the sex glands, because the hormones they produce are responsible for the changes that take place when a boy or girl grows up to become a man or woman.

2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts iv. 95 The thyroid, pancreas, sex glands and the adrenals all became recognized as endocrine glands, essential regulators of health.

sex god n. (a) Mythology a god associated with or ruling over sex or procreation; (b) a man who is exceptionally sexually attractive or accomplished.

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1899 K. R. Budde Relig. of Israel to Exile Contents p. x Yahweh was the god of the covenant of the tribes—along with him in Israel were household gods, sex gods, tribal gods.

1969 Music Educators Jrnl. 56 46/3 The popular arts portray endless variations of the playboy, the jet set, the beautiful people, the sex gods and goddesses.

1999 S. O'Hara Rarely Pure & never Simple 14 Perpetuating the popular notion of Italian men as nothing but sex gods.

2007 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 17 Apr. 6 A man claiming to be the ancient Egyptian sex god Min.

sex goddess n. (a) Mythology a goddess associated with or ruling over sex or procreation; (b) a woman who is exceptionally sexually attractive or is regarded as a sex symbol.

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1933 G. MacMunn Underworld of India xi. 204 This is a widow story.., and through it all runs the fanatical influence of a sex goddess.

1959 Washington Post 4 July b9/7 She slithered admirably, giving the criminal the impression—apparently—that she is some kind of sex goddess.

2003 Marie Claire Dec. 345/2 Sex goddess Brigitte Bardot wore nude lipstick.

2006 D. L. Paxson Essent. Ásatrú ii. 89 Freyja is much more than a sex goddess.

sex hormone n. Biology any of the (natural or synthetic) hormones that affect sexual development or behaviour, esp. those produced by the gonads.

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1915 New Phytologist 14 142 The author..suggests that this [inconstancy of secondary sex characters] may be due to the much more restricted action of sex hormones among plants.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1328 Among the seminiferous tubules of the testes there are some interstitial cells which produce a special sex-hormone.

1965 New Scientist 22 Apr. 218/3 The materials contained in the various forms of The Pill are synthetic sex hormones.

2002 Daily Tel. 28 Mar. 9/7 Sex hormone pollution is causing female birds..to sing along with their male counterparts.

sex hygiene n. the set of behaviours intended to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted disease; (also more widely) sex education.

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1899 S. H. Rowe Physical Nature Child xii. 131 Clark University..and Stanford University..have of late entered on a campaign for the study of sex and of sex hygiene.

1934 E. R. Mowrer in E. R. Groves & L. M. Brooks Readings in Family xiii. 283 A program of sex hygiene..will teach individuals what to expect in sex relations in such a way as to raise these contacts from the realm of the release of physiological tensions to that of a mutually satisfying experience.

1980 M. T. Connelly Response to Prostitution in Progressive Era iv. 78 The phrase ‘sex-hygiene education’ is somewhat misleading, because what was advocated was not an open knowledge of sexuality and sexual behavior but rather an enlightened indoctrination in proper and safe sex roles.

2005 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 16 Feb. 4 They campaigned against spitting on streetcars and for sex-hygiene classes in high schools.

sex impulse n. the impulse, or an impulse, towards satisfaction of sexual needs.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > sex drive or instinct

sex impulse1883

sex instinct1883

libido1909

sex drive1916

sex urge1920

1883 S. S. Hennell Present Relig. (1887) II. ii. i. 349 The sex-impulse that is at [the] root of all love.

1912 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 23 134 The sex impulses find no outlet before puberty.

2006 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Feb. (Features section) 24 The arrival of the sex impulse—alarming, exciting, excruciating—had been a key moment in my school years.

sex industry n. the commercial trade in sex and sexually stimulating materials, including prostitution, pornography, etc.; cf. sex worker n.

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society > occupation and work > industry > [noun] > types of industry generally

rural industry1735

heavies1900

sunset1906

cottage industry1911

light industry1916

heavy industry1932

resource industry1938

nuclear industry1954

growth industry1957

space industry1957

knowledge industry1959

sex industry1965

sunrise1972

smokestack industry1979

Tayacian1979

sausage fest1995

1965 N.Y. Times 20 Jan. 15 (advt.) Here's a no-holds-barred attack on the U.S. sex industry, the full, shocking story of..the big business boom in filth.

1978 Washington Post 8 Jan. a16/3 For example, the District of Columbia is known as a ‘fast town’ tolerant of the sex industry, whereas Norfolk supposedly is conservative and open only to soft-core pornography.

1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. Europe: Rough Guide (ed. 3) II. ix. 383 Nowadays this quarter is ruled by the sex industry, with its nerve centre on the notorious Reeperbahn.

sex-influenced adj. chiefly Biology (esp. of a gene) affected in its properties or expression by the sex of the individual.

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1926 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 53 207 There are sex-limited or sex-influenced factors in both allosomes and autosomes.

1951 Jrnl. Nat. Cancer Inst. 12 244 During accelerated synthesis of Nissl material the sex-influenced chromatin moves from its usual position, next to the nucleolus, toward the nuclear membrane.

2007 Northern Miner (Austral.) (Nexis) 16 Jan. 9 Because of the complex pattern of inheritance and the sex-influenced nature of the genes, DNA markers are needed to help integrate polled genes into cattle breeding populations.

sex instinct n. [compare French instinct sexuel (1835)] the behaviour and feelings associated with sexual reproduction considered as an instinct for the survival of the species; (also) = sex impulse n.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > sex drive or instinct

sex impulse1883

sex instinct1883

libido1909

sex drive1916

sex urge1920

1883 Amer. Naturalist 17 911 Sex instinct could not have existed prior to the origin of the male sex.

1898 C. P. Stetson Women & Econ. iii. 56 What business has a little girl with the instincts of maternity?.. They are sex-instincts, and should not appear till the period of adolescence.

1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers ix The sex instinct that Miriam had over-refined for so long now grew particularly strong.

1931 Times 3 Aug. 13/3 We talked about a sex instinct, but it was very blunt.

1976 A. Montagu Nature of Human Aggression (1978) iv. 64 Everyone ‘knows’ from his or her own experience that there is such a thing as a sex instinct.

1996 Jrnl. Social & Evolutionary Syst. 19 97 Freud reduced everything to the omnipresent and omnipotent role of the sex instinct: Eros is the sex instinct and love is Eros.

sex interest n. (a) interest in or concern with sex or sexual relationships; (b) this as a theme in a story, film, etc.; (also) an actor or character who arouses sexual desire or interest (cf. love interest n. at love n.¹ Compounds 6).

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual relationship > [noun] > interest in or concern with

sex interest1885

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot > subject or theme > types of

love interest1778

subtext1862

sex interest1911

through line1936

1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 821 It is not divorce laws which are to be feared, but something which lies deeper; that is the weakening of the metaphysical sex interest.

1911 Maclean's Apr. 139/2 There is scarcely any ‘sex interest’ in it at all.

1940 ‘G. Orwell’ in Horizon Mar. 189 Both of these papers admit a certain amount of sex-interest into their stories.

1975 P. Kronhausen & E. Kronhausen Sex People xvi. 200 The question of whether..those who have to deal professionally with sexuality in one form or another..have to reckon with a loss of sex interest as a possible ‘professional hazard’.

2003 G. Burn North of Eng. Home Service (2004) iv. 153 Diana Dors, who was the sex interest in It's a Grand Life.

sex intergrade n. chiefly Biology an individual in which both male and female characteristics are present; an intersexual individual.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > state or condition of having characteristics of both sexes

hermaphroditism1808

androgynism1823

hermaphrodism1828

androgynity1842

bisexuality1842

androgyny1852

bisexualism1865

pseudohermaphroditism1881

asexuality1886

virilism1896

bi-gender1912

intersexuality1916

sex intergrade1916

relative sexuality1926

ambisexuality1938

monoecy1949

testicular feminization (or feminizing)1953

1916 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2 578 (title) Sex intergrades in a species of crustacea.

1924 J. A. Thomson Sci. Old & New xxi. 114 The occurrence of sex-intergrades, such as very masculine females, is well known among pigeons.

1962 Lancet 27 Jan. 216/2 The hypothesis, advanced by Lang, that some male homosexuals are sex intergrades—i.e., morphologically male but genotypically female.

2006 Africa News (Nexis) 29 Jan. At times the chromosomes or the hormones become unbalanced and various degrees of sex intergrades result.

sex killer n. a murderer who sexually assaults his or her victim(s).

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the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin > types of

assassin1340

Old Man of the Mountain1579

fedai1723

thug1810

nasty man1863

Jack the Ripper1888

ripper1909

trunk murderer1925

sex killer1935

mass-murderer1943

serial murderer1947

psycho-killer1949

serial killer1967

spree killer1983

1935 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos Tribune 27 June 1/2 Keep close watch on sex killer.

1959 M. Gilbert Blood & Judgement ii. 26 You'd be surprised..how many sex-killers turn out to be their mothers' favourite sons.

2002 Express (Nexis) 26 June 8 A sex killer was being hunted last night after a young woman was found semi-naked with her throat cut on a golf course.

sex kitten n. colloquial a young woman who asserts or exploits her sexual attractiveness.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > that which excites > sexually exciting person > specifically female > young woman who asserts sexual attractiveness

sex doll1934

sex kitten1958

1958 Daily Sketch 2 June 11/4 Clever film men have moulded her sex-kitten type.

1966 Guardian 7 Jan. 9/2 Brigitte Bardot..the original sex kitten with the French charm.

2002 Loaded July (Encycl. Eroticus Suppl.) 18/1 Kylie. Has managed to morph from the cute girl next door to sex kitten extraordinaire.

sex-kittenish adj. like a sex kitten, characteristic of or resembling a sex kitten.

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1963 J. Fowles Collector ii. 166 Antoinette was almost parodying herself, she was so sex-kittenish.

1995 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 18 May f13 The clothes are short, tight, sex-kittenish: crop-tops, slogan T-shirts, little skirts.

2003 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 17 Jan. 53 She's a little girl one minute, a sex-kittenish woman the next.

sex life n. the aspect or part of life that involves sex; (now) spec. a person's sexual activity and relationships considered as a whole.

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1873 J. P. Lacroix tr. A. Wuttke Christian Ethics II. i. 75 The greater dependence on..the changes of the seasons in the entire female sex-life [Ger. Geschlechtsleben].

1919 Jrnl. Social Hygiene 5 590 A man's sex life is not merely a matter of the individual.

1936 ‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Fools xx. 181 I get no kick out of the sex-life of the white-tailed baboon.

1976 Vogue 15 Mar. 13/2 He is being reviled for apparently having absolutely no sex life, none at all.

2003 ‘Zane’ Nervous ix. 55 What really pissed me off was Jon talking about my sex life. Something she didn't know jack shit about.

sex machine n. (originally) a person, typically a woman, who performs a sexual role or function mechanically and without feeling; (later usually) a person characterized as vigorous, unremitting, and insatiable in his or her pursuit and performance of sex.

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1922 M. E. Cousins Awakening of Asian Womanhood vii. 95 These things turn the women of the household often into drudges, overworked cooks, and mere sex-machines.

1935 H. Edib Clown & his Daughter viii. 43 Now she wants to burden me with another sex-machine.

1970 J. Brown (song) in Sex Machine (MS transcript) Get up (I feel like being a) Sex Machine.

2002 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 15 Dec. 15 Her tales of their kinky lovemaking helped fuel the Nicholson legend... ‘When I knew him he was absolutely the sex machine,’ she said.

sex morality n. = sexual morality n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 2.

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1883 S. S. Hennell Present Relig. (1887) II. ii. 335 In the now-supposed general Design of things, Christianity was the initiatory stage of Sex-morality.

1958 Listener 4 Dec. 933/2 Queen Victoria..instituted a new reign of sex-morality.

2001 S. T. Joshi Dreamer & Visionary ix. 150 Among his published works was at least one..treatise on sex morality.

sex mosaic n. Biology an individual having some cells that are genetically of one sex and the rest of the other sex.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > state or condition of having characteristics of both sexes > person or animal

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1903 W. E. Castle in Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Harvard 40 197 Unilateral and mixed hermaphrodites are an exceptional form of sex-mosaic.

1955 Japanese Jrnl. Zool. 11 350 The 1st gynandromorph is a simple bilateral sex mosaic showing yellow Ww gene in the left male wings and white Ww gene in the right female wings.

2002 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 13232/2 The use of sex mosaics to define centers and circuits responsible for courtship behavior is somewhat limited.

sex-negative adj. that has or promotes a conservative, repressive, or intolerant attitude towards sex and sexuality; anti-sex (cf. sex-positive adj.).

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1931 in H. Steiner Sexualnot und Sexualreform 86 The sexual misery of the working class is caused by..the sex-negative education [Ger. sexualverneinenden Erziehung]..of children during puberty.

1984 Family Planning Perspectives 16 108/1 Sex-negative values..prevent people from talking openly about sex, and thinking of sex as something to be enjoyed for its own sake.

2004 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 3 Dec. b8 By endorsing abstinence, one is embracing a sex-negative ideology that is a euphemism for sexual repression.

sex-neutral adj. not differentiated on the basis of sex; suitable for both males and females; (also) not biased towards either sex.

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1957 Amer. Anthropologist 59 238 Tagalogs employ sex-neutral kinship terms much more than we do. The following kinship words of this nature are in general use: asawa, spouse; apo, grandchild; [etc.].

1989 M. Moffatt Coming of Age in New Jersey v. 182 Daily informal dress..was relatively sex-neutral, a loosely unisex style.

2002 Times of India (Nexis) 11 Mar. The test had proved to be ‘sex neutral’,..both men and women performed equally well in it.

sex object n. a person towards whom or thing towards which sexual impulse or desire is directed; (now esp.) a person regarded by another only as an object of sexual interest.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > that which excites > sexually exciting person

a bit (also piece) of all right1895

hot stuff1908

sex object1911

hot pants1938

sexpot1953

sex bomb1954

sexboat1955

1911 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 22 423 Instead of sublimating the sex impulse, he [sc. Leonardo da Vinci] directed it towards the physical Jesus in toto. It was simply the substitution of one sex object for another.

1963 B. Friedan Feminine Mystique xi. 266 For the woman who lives according to the feminine mystique, there is no road to achievement, or status, or identity, except the sexual one: the achievement of sexual conquest, status as a desirable sex object, identity as a sexually successful wife and mother.

1980 G. Greene Dr. Fischer ix. 59 Deane is not an actor: he is a sex object. Teenage girls worship him.

2000 A. Dutney in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 134/2 The encyclical identifies dangers in the use of ‘artificial birth control’ including the encouragement of promiscuity, the reduction of women to sex objects, [etc.].

sex offender n. originally U.S. a person who commits an illicit action or (now esp.) a criminal offence involving sex.

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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > offence involving sex > one guilty of

sexual offender1893

sex offender1911

beast1983

1911 M. Cox Spiritual Curiosities 41 A memory left..by Puritan ancestry with its pillories and scarlet letters for sex offenders.

1916 C. J. Weidensall Mentality Criminal Woman App. 294 She then became a domestic and after a year was a sex offender for the first time... Domestic on a farm. Was a continuous sex offender with one of the farm hands.

1939 Columbia Law Rev. Mar. 535 Prior to the enactment of this statute in Illinois, a criminal sex offender received no special treatment.

2005 A. Masters Stuart xxiii. 254 His main topic of conversation about prison is his hatred of sex offenders.

sex offence n. originally U.S. an offence (originally a social offence, now usually a criminal offence) involving sex or a sexual act.

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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > offence involving sex

sexual offence1840

sexual assault1883

sex crime1906

sex offence1910

1910 A. Wilson Unfinished Man vi. 111 These cruel, cunning sex offences [sc. seduction of young girls, infidelity, etc.] and their far-reaching effects.

1911 J. London Let. 8 Jan. (1966) 330 You are suffering from what you deem a sex-offence.

1977 J. Thomson Case Closed vii. 85 The offences..included fraud, burglary,..assault, sex offences of various sorts.

2007 Guardian 13 Nov. 30/4 In half of the [reported rape]..cases involving alcohol..the suspects had not been investigated, despite having a history of sex offences.

sex organ n. (usually in plural) a reproductive organ; = sexual organ at sexual adj. 3a.

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the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun]

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person1824

sex organ1847

privates1940

naughty bits1972

1847 A. Tulk tr. L. Oken Elements Physiophilos. 533 Their sexual parts [Ger. Geschlechtstheile]..do not open posteriorly, but far forwards on the ventral side of the body, this being the case with even the male sex-organs [Ger. selbst die männlichen].

1978 Times 15 Mar. 6/3 Old symbols like mutilation of sex organs..are passé.

2002 New Yorker 16 Dec. 60/1 There are probably more euphemisms for vodka than for anything other than the male sex organ.

sex pest n. colloquial (chiefly British) a sex offender; a person who sexually harasses another.

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1985 Times 7 Aug. 5/1 Sex pest's one-way ticket back. A convicted sex offender, sent by a Californian judge..to Florida,..is to be returned to where he came from.

1992 Independent 6 Jan. 5/4 Women are frightened to complain about sex pests because of the attitude of employers, researchers said.

2005 Cairns (Queensland) Post (Nexis) 12 Apr. 9 A serial sex pest who tormented Cairns women and girls over a two-year period was jailed..yesterday.

sex play n. (a) a drama about sex, or having sexual content; (b) play having a sexual nature, spec. sexual activity that does not involve intercourse.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play

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ballad farce1735

benefit-play1740

potboiler1783

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extravaganza1797

theo-drama1801

monodrame1803

proverb1803

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problem play1894

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sex play1899

chronicle drama1902

thesis-play1902

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folk-play1905

radio play1908

tab1915

spy play1919

one-act1920

pièce à thèse1923

dance-drama1924

a mess of plottage1926

turkey1927

weepie1928

musical1930

cliffhanger1931

mime drama1931

triangle drama1931

weeper1934

spine-chiller1940

starrer1941

scorcher1942

teleplay1947

straw-hatter1949

pièce noire1951

pièce rose1951

tab show1951

conversation piece1952

psychodrama1956

whydunit1968

mystery play1975

State of the Nation1980

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun]

playOE

loveOE

toucha1400

chamber workc1450

venery1497

bed-glee1582

bed-game1596

fiddling1622

twatting1893

sexual relations1897

fun time1905

massage1906

sex play1922

actionc1930

hanky-panky1939

making-out1957

lumber1966

1899 Naugatuck (Connecticut) Daily News 14 Mar. 3/2 This play, which has been termed the great sex play, made a tremendous sensation when it was first produced on the London stage.

1922 U. Sinclair Bk. of Life II. xxxiii. 34 Their games and dances were sex play, and so also, in great part, was their religion.

1945 W. C. Kvaraceus Juvenile Delinquency & School ix. 94 The very early sex play indulged in by the ‘rebel’ and his sister, forced to share a bed until the beginnings of adolescence.

1998 Agence France Presse (Nexis) 19 June Arthur Schnitzler's classic highly-charged sex play ‘La Ronde’.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 15 June 183/1 Masturbation toys..might add a new sheen to cockcentric sex play.

sex-positive adj. that has or promotes a tolerant, progressive, or candid attitude towards sex and sexuality; pro-sex (cf. sex-negative adj.).

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1953 W. Reich Biogr. Material II. iv. 81 With the change of the basic adjustment from sex-negative to sex-positive, naturally not very much was altered in the character structure.

1997 G. S. Rubin in M. P. Levine et al. In Changing Times v. 113 The safe-sex campaigns were a sex-positive response to the illness.

2002 Isis 93 476/2 The gradual shift to sex-positive views of masturbation in the twentieth century.

sexpot n. colloquial a sexually attractive, exciting, or active person, esp. a woman.Occasionally (quot. 1961): a person who is sex-obsessed.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > that which excites > sexually exciting person

a bit (also piece) of all right1895

hot stuff1908

sex object1911

hot pants1938

sexpot1953

sex bomb1954

sexboat1955

1953 Winona (Minnesota) Republican-Herald 14 Sept. 4/2 After talking about her next picture, ‘Mogambo’, in which she is a real sexpot, I happened to mention her herculean husband.

1961 Harper's Bazaar May 57/2 Ovid..the dirty old sexpot.

1975 New Yorker 5 May 115/1 Graham Chapman, John Cleese..with Connie Booth and Carol Cleveland as their sexpot aides.

2002 ‘Mistress Chloe’ Dominatrix xiii. 199 The place was full of tarty sexpots hired to attract punters to the various exhibits.

sex ratio n. the ratio of male to female individuals in a population.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > ratio

sex ratio1886

1886 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 49 474 There is therefore some, but not much, evidence of an increase in Hertfordshire of the sex-ratio during the twenty-one years.

1913 T. H. Morgan Heredity & Sex 221 A curious sex ratio appeared in one race of fruit flies. Some of the females persisted in producing twice as many females as males.

1974 J. Burnett Useful Toil i. 48 Because of the unequal sex ratio one in three [Victorian] women were ‘doomed’ to spinsterhood.

2003 Daily Tel. 7 Mar. 19/5 The falling sex ratio across Punjab prompted the Akal Takht, Sikhism's supreme religious and temporal seat, to issue an edict last year banning female foeticide.

sex relation n. the relation between the sexes, or an instance of this; spec. (usually in plural) = sexual relations n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 2.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual relationship > [noun]

ménagea1393

sex relation1871

sex relationship1873

the tender trap1954

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse

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Venus exercise?1507

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1871 S. S. Hennell Present Relig. (1873) II. i. 321 His mind appears notably at conflict with itself as to the nature of the Sex-relation.

1880 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican 14 Aug. 4/4 If the state should listen to the petitions of those who ask that sex relations be exemplified from control, the experience [etc.].

1911 O. Schreiner Let. in R. First & A. Scott Olive Schreiner (1980) vii. 291 [She] thinks it's wrong for people, even if married, to have sex relations with each other except just when they want to make a child.

1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male xxi. 613 The behavior pattern of the animal,..its position relative to the other animal in the sex relation.

2007 CNN (Nexis) 10 Aug. (Larry King Live) So then you're like a lesbian... I identify as lesbian, yes, absolutely... So your sex relations would be with a woman... Yes.

sex relationship n. the relationship between the sexes, esp. as involving sexual intercourse.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual relationship > [noun]

ménagea1393

sex relation1871

sex relationship1873

the tender trap1954

1873 N.Y. Times 7 Mar. 5/3 [In society] polygamy and every other form of sex relationship are represented.

1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex i. 8 There are certain historical characteristics of the Society of Friends that ought specially to lead to..understanding of the significance of the sex relationship.

2000 Industr. & Labor Relations Rev. 53 326 Gilman's central thesis is that because in the human species alone the female depends on the male for food,..for us the sex relationship is also an economic relationship.

sex repression n. = sexual repression n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 2.

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1899 ‘G. F. Monkshood’ Rudyard Kipling 39 The writings of Rudyard Kipling do not appeal to women... He does not write of adulterous entanglements prettily,..does not exhibit a study of sex-repression labelled religious fervour.

1958 J. Cannan And be Villain i. 27 Richard used to treat me as a case of sex repression.

2007 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 27 June 20 We have moved from sex repression to sex obsession.

sex reversal n. the adoption of a physical form or behavioural role characteristic of the opposite sex.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > reassignment of sex or gender

transexion1646

sex reversal1910

sex change1922

1910 Science 22 Apr. 632/2 Since none of these plants were subjected to the vigorous traumatic treatment described above it is held that some factor other than traumatism produces the sex reversal.

1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. iv. 53 Hens which had undergone sex-reversal to cocks.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female vi. 129 Peoples may provide sex-reversal rôles for both sexes.

2003 Science 19 Dec. 2050/1 Each year, a few babies are born with a male set of chromosomes and female sexual organs. This sex reversal..can happen when changes in a protein called SRY impair its function.

sex-reversed adj. that has undergone sex reversal.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > reassignment of sex or gender

transfeminated1646

sex-reversed1925

sex-reversing1926

1925 E. W. Sinnott & L. C. Dunn Princ. Genetics 230 If such a sex-reversed hen were barred, what would be the appearance of her offspring when bred to a non-barred hen?

2001 Scientist (Nexis) 23 July 18 A fertilized female mouse egg will become male when injected with SRY. The animal in question..was the first sex-reversed mouse ever produced in this way.

sex-reversing adj. that reverses the sex of an animal or person; (also) that changes sex.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > reassignment of sex or gender

transfeminated1646

sex-reversed1925

sex-reversing1926

1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. iv. 52 Some sexually abnormal human beings are the victims of this sex-reversing power.

1989 Evolution 43 1559/1 This lack of direct natural selection on the breeding sex ratio is perhaps nearly universal for typical dioecious species. Interestingly, this result is not true for sex-reversing organisms.

2002 New Scientist (Nexis) 24 Aug. 29 Sex-reversing mutations have spawned new species of cichlid fish in Lake Victoria.

sex ring n. an organization or network of people engaged in crimes of a sexual nature, esp. the trafficking of children for the purpose of sexual abuse.

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1937 Logansport (Indiana) Press 5 Oct. 1/4 [The] 19-year-old accused in a vicious ‘sex ring’ expose pleaded not guilty..on charges that he had assaulted a small girl.

1952 Chicago Tribune 19 Mar. iv. 10/6 A multi-million dollar sex ring, engaged in the distribution of dirty films..and in the production of off-color ‘girlie’ shows at smokers, was smashed tonight in a series of raids.

2004 C. Sanderson Seduction of Children (2005) i. 53 Sex rings consist of groups or networks of unrelated adults, in which they trade related, or unrelated, children.

sex role n. originally Social Psychology the culturally determined role or pattern of behaviour which a person learns as appropriate to his or her sex.

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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > social psychology > [noun] > culturally determined role

sex role1917

script1968

1917 B. Glueck & J. E. Lind tr. A. Adler Neurotic Constit. 103 The longer the uncertainty as to the sex-rôle [Ger. Geschlechtsrolle] exists, the more urgent becomes the effort..to attain the masculine rôle.

1977 China Now July 3/3 The sex-roles are traditionally presented and the girl who helps Mummy to hang out the washing is rewarded.

2005 N.Y. Times 18 Sept. (T: Style Mag.) 132/2 They experiment with relationships and sex roles, from boy toy to breadwinner, from date-to-the-ball to tantric-sex partner.

sex scene n. (in a book, film, or play) a description or scene of a sexual nature, esp. one featuring sexual intercourse.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > scene > type of scene or act

monologuec1550

monology1608

night scene1683

mad scene1741

drop-scene1815

recognition scene1838

carpenter's-scene1860

scène à faire1884

mob scene1890

sex scene1915

curtain1928

1915 Englewood (Chicago) Times 17 Dec. i. 1/5 Rancid sex scenes.

1925 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 19 Nov. [The play] contained the most strenuous sex scene ever known to New York..so daring that all other daring scenes seemed tame.

2002 V. Coren & C. Skelton Once more, with Feeling vi. 36 A sex scene between two girls is absolutely de rigueur in any mainstream porn film.

sex shop n. a shop selling goods relating to sex, as pornography, sex aids, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods

jeweller's shop1632

ironmongery1648

ironmonger1673

jeweller1675

news shop1688

print shop1689

Indian house1692

coal shed1718

pamphlet shop1721

lormery1725

drugstore1771

hardware store1777

junk store1777

chandler-shop1782

junk shop1790

music store1794

pot shop1794

finding store1822

marine store1837

picture house1838

paint shop1847

news agency1852

chemist1856

Army and Navy1878

cyclery1886

jumble-shop1893

pig shop1896

Manchester department1905

lot1909

craft shop1911

garden centre1912

pet shop1927

sex shop1949

video store1949

quincaillerie1951

home centre1955

Army-Navy1965

cookshop1967

sound shop1972

bucket-shop1973

1949 J. V. D. Houston Armed Pilgrimage i. 14 The ‘sex-shops’ at Kobe, where instruments for carnal satisfaction were sold openly and publicised in English.

1970 Guardian 26 Nov. 4/2 ‘Sex-shops’..are now established in many West German cities.

2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land xi. 113 Next door to the prim fifties dating culture of Camps Bay are Green Point's new sex shops, brothels and gay bars.

sex surrogate n. a person who or thing which acts as a substitute for sexual activity or a sexual partner; spec. a person employed to have sexual relations with someone undergoing sex therapy.

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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > therapy dealing with sexual problems > surrogate partner in

sex surrogate1916

surrogate1975

1916 C. E. Long tr. C. G. Jung Coll. Papers Analyt. Psychol. iii. 172 Enuresis must be regarded as an infantile sex-surrogate [Ger. Sexualsurrogat].

1975 Transcript (North Adams, Mass.) 16 June 3/1 ‘We try to be like the girl next door,’ said Bonnie, who calls herself a therapist and a sex surrogate.

1979 Guardian 10 July 9/1 Dr. Martin Cole's Institute for Sex Education and Research..has been supplying sex surrogate therapy for ten years.

2007 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 9 Feb. r35 The film's abrupt shift to 3-D porn and plastic sex surrogates explores only fetishism without truly addressing the isolation and alienation it exposes.

sex symbol n. (a) a symbol that represents sex, or (the attributes of) a particular sex (now rare); (b) a person widely regarded as the epitome of sexual attractiveness and glamour (now the usual sense).

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [noun] > symbol with sexual signification

sex symbol1871

the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > sex appeal > sex symbol

sex symbol1871

pin-up1943

1871 J. H. Jones Kingdom of Heaven 14 It resulted inevitably, therefore, that..the woman, the sex-symbol of the spirit, should become the slave of the man, the sex-symbol of the flesh.

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xx. 442 Men..might regard her as nothing but sex symbol; she regarded herself as an intelligence.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 94/2 The ‘line’ [of chorus girls] itself..is even more basic than the sex symbol of the flower.

1976 N. Botham & P. Donnelly Valentino i. 12 The olive skin of the man who would..become the world's first and most enduring sex symbol.

2000 Daily Tel. 23 Nov. 5/2 Once a cone bra-wearing sex symbol.., she [sc. Madonna] now talks about little but her forthcoming marriage.

sex therapist n. a therapist who addresses sexual problems.

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1950 G. Heard Morals since 1900 ii. 141 It is as a master of language and of myth rather than as a specific sex-therapist..that he [sc. Sigmund Freud] will be remembered.

1977 J. S. DeLora & C. A. B. Warren Understanding Sexual Interaction iv. 90 Sex therapists, who direct their creative energy toward the specifically sexual difficulties of individuals or couples.

2005 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 17 Sept. 12 e The sex therapist may want to work with him alone at first, then eventually include couple therapy.

sex therapy n. therapy (now esp. counselling) which addresses a person's (perceived) psychological or physical sexual problems.

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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > therapy dealing with sexual problems

sex therapy1952

conversion therapy1973

1952 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 8 Aug. 9/2 Sex Therapy. Homosexuals can cure themselves if they resolutely wish to do so.

1970 F. Belliveau & L. Richter Understanding Human Sexual Inadequacy (1971) iii. vii. 77 Success in sex therapy is dependent upon communication between the sex-partners.

2003 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 May d1/4 Erotic materials or sexual activity aren't part of mainstream sex therapy.

sex totem n. Cultural Anthropology (among some southern and south-eastern Australian Aboriginal peoples) a totem specific to either men or women.

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1887 J. G. Frazer Totemism 53 Men who do not object to other people killing their clan totem will fiercely defend their sex totem against any attempt of the opposite sex to injure it.

1927 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 May 328/2 One has only to think of the remarkable institution of the sex-totem in aboriginal Australia.

2018 Skin, Kin & Clan (e-book, accessed 18 May 2018) vi. 157 The widespread use (in south-eastern Australia) of the bat as a sex totem for men.

sex tour n. (a) a guided tour of a city's red-light district, museums of erotica, etc.; (b) a holiday taken specifically for the purpose of engaging in sexual activities; spec. a trip to a country (frequently in the developing world) made in order to take advantage of the lack of restrictions imposed on sexual activity, esp. the more open availability and lower cost of prostitutes.

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1974 N.Y. Times 8 Sept. 18/2 On the back of the..folder, entitled ‘Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen’, were listed the six excursions, with the sex tour labeled, ‘Copenhagen's Naked Truth’.

1977 Economist 7 May (Survey) 52/2 It is normal to smooth deals with much business hospitality, which has a special meaning in a country where ‘sex tours for Japanese businessmen’ are part of the invisible exports drive.

1995 Village Voice (N.Y.) 19 Aug. 53 Any lonely shlub with a passport can feel like a stud..on 10-night sex tours in the Philippines.

sex tourism n. tourism (usually to a developing country) undertaken specifically for the purpose of engaging in sexual activities; the taking of sex tours (see sex tour n. (b)).

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1979 N.Y. Times 5 Aug. 10/3 Protests against Japanese sex tourism..seem likely to mount in Asia's developing countries, concurrently with criticism of Japanese business practices.

1997 Bangkok Post 26 Feb. (Outlook section) 8/4 Sri Lanka is forming a Child Protection Authority to oversee a national campaign against youth-centred sex tourism.

sex tourist n. (a) a person who visits a place in search of sexual titillation (rare); (b) a person who engages in sex tourism (now the usual sense).

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1954 C. Timberlake Bishop of Broadway xxv. 377 This ‘play for the sex-tourists’—this ‘evening among the lesser fleshpots’—this ‘Darling of the Bawds’.

1979 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 11 Nov. They are not the only sex tourists in Bangkok, which attracts other moneyed nationalities.

1984 E. Kim in E. Y. Yu & E. H. Phillips Korean Women in Transition (1987) viii. 137 To understand the motives of Western sex tourists, one cannot ignore the importance of their fantasies about Asian women.

2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land p. xiii We kept company with sex tourists and murderers, made friends with gangsters and racists, found some of the finest clubs in the world, and witnessed some of the worst dancing in evidence anywhere on the planet.

sex toy n. (a) a person viewed as a sexual plaything; (b) a device or object designed for sexual stimulation (as a dildo, vibrator, etc.) or to enhance sexual pleasure or performance.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > object used in sexual activity > [noun]

sex toy1963

1963 J. Rechy in A. Baraka Moderns 146 Tiny, like a sextoy, she squirms her butt cutely.

1972 Stud. in Family Planning 3 255 The current products clearly indicate the trend to view condoms not only as a contraceptive but also as a sex tool. Japan has a long tradition from the feudal days of such sex toys.

1976 Leicester Trader 24 Nov. 22/2 (advt.) Sex toys catalogue pack.

1999 J. Burchill Married Alive xiv. 206 Michaela turns to me and smiles as if all her Christmases have come at once and she's getting sex toys for all of them.

sex trade n. the sex industry, spec. the business of prostitution.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun]

bordelc1300

prostitution1553

trugging1591

trade1592

putanism1672

street1750

Magdalenism1840

the life1858

profession1888

social evil1901

hustling1924

game1926

sex trade1931

1931 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 42 41 The income and budget of the sex trade, the control of venereal disease, sterility, arrangements with police.

2007 Guardian (Nexis) 18 July (Final ed.) 13 No men have yet been prosecuted for sex with women or girls forced into the sex trade.

sex trafficking n. the action or practice of coercing people into prostitution, pornography, or other forms of commercial sexual exploitation, usually involving illegal or forcible relocation.

ΚΠ

1913 Ottumwa (Iowa) Daily Rev. 30 Oct. The girls and women of the country are found to be safe and not even knowing of a single case of sex trafficking in their whole city.

1977 Monroe (Louisiana) News-Star 27 May a4/5 The CBS-60-Minutes show discussed this tragic subject of sex trafficking in children.

2013 F. Malekian & K. Nordlöf Prohibition Sexual Exploitation Children ix. 219 Increasing poverty in different parts of the world leads to sex trafficking.

sex-typed adj. Sociology and Psychology categorized or ‘typed’ as being characteristic of either the male or the female sex.

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the world > people > person > [adjective] > characteristic of male or female sex

sex-typed1941

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > social psychology > [adjective] > typed by sex

sex-typed1941

1941 N. E. Miller & J. Dollard Social Learning & Imitation xii. 198 The punishments meted out to adults who actually exhibit such tendencies tend to maintain and strengthen the sex-typed habits acquired.

1979 Bull. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. Feb. 31 The modal pattern for each sex is, nonetheless, conventionally sex-typed.

2000 C. L. Williams in M. S. Kimmel & A. Aronson Gendered Society Reader 294 Few have looked at the ‘flip-side’ of occupational sex segregation: the exclusion of men from predominantly female sex-typed occupations.

sex-typing n. and adj. (a) n. the categorization of people, or their appearance, behaviour, etc., according to conventional perceptions of what is typical of each sex; (b) adj. that categorizes people in this way.

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1938 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 3 732 One can see from the record the persistent sex-typing of character under the influence of his parents and colleagues.

1976 New Society 4 Mar. 509/1 The ‘blue/gun for a boy: pink/dolly for a girl’, sex-typing syndrome.

2001 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 24 Dec. 5 Of course, women can enjoy ‘male’ fiction,..want to flee domesticity and become monks or action heroes... That's what makes any kind of rigid sex-typing absurd.

sex urge n. = sex drive n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > sex drive or instinct

sex impulse1883

sex instinct1883

libido1909

sex drive1916

sex urge1920

1920 M. Sanger Woman & New Race ix. 111 This man is not concerned with his wife's sex urge, save as it responds to his own at times of his choosing.

1966 D. Francis Flying Finish vi. 74 Bravery is built in... You can't stamp it out any more than the sex urge.

1991 K. Dalton Once Month (ed. 5) xx. 194 Sometimes when you feel most bloody-minded you nevertheless have an increased sex urge during the premenstruum.

sex work n. (a) the academic study of sexual behaviour or practices (rare); (b) employment in the sex industry, esp. paid work providing sexual services, such as in the pornography business or as a prostitute.Typically used (esp. when in preference to prostitution) to avoid or reduce negative connotations and to evoke affinity with conventional service industries.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [noun] > study of sex

sexology1867

sex work1934

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > action or practice of being a prostitute

strumpetry1435

strumperya1500

harloting1575

sacking1591

streetwalking1735

sex work1934

tomming1964

hoing1972

escorting1988

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > pornography > trade in

sex work1934

skin trade1969

1934 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 21 334 Hemp has been the subject of a great deal of study in regard to its sexual behavior. Malloch (1922) points out its desirability for sex work.

1970 N.Y. Times 27 Apr. 28/1 He [sc. Dr. William H. Masters] started sex work in 1954.

1983 in C. Leigh Unrepentant Whore (2004) 71 Subtitled ‘The demystification of the Sex-Work Industry’, this one-woman performance piece was written by a prostitute.

1996 F. M. Shaver in B. Schissel & L. Mahood Social Control in Canada ix. 205 Many feminist theorists simply denounce prostitution in particular and sex work in general as dangerous, degrading, and entirely undesirable as a profession.

sex worker n. a person who is paid or employed to provide sexual services, esp. one working in the pornography business or as a prostitute.Typically used (esp. when in preference to prostitute) to avoid or reduce negative connotations and to evoke affinity with conventional service industries.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute

meretrixOE

whoreOE

soiled dovea1250

common womanc1330

putec1384

bordel womanc1405

putaina1425

brothelc1450

harlot?a1475

public womanc1510

naughty pack?1529

draba1533

cat1535

strange woman1535

stew1552

causey-paikera1555

putanie?1566

drivelling1570

twigger1573

punka1575

hackney1579

customer1583

commodity1591

streetwalker1591

traffic1591

trug1591

hackster1592

polecat1593

stale1593

mermaid1595

medlar1597

occupant1598

Paphian1598

Winchester goose1598

pagan1600

hell-moth1602

aunt1604

moll1604

prostitution1605

community1606

miss1606

night-worm1606

bat1607

croshabell1607

prostitute1607

pug1607

venturer1607

nag1608

curtal1611

jumbler1611

land-frigate1611

walk-street1611

doll-common1612

turn-up1612

barber's chaira1616

commonera1616

public commonera1616

trader1615

venturea1616

stewpot1616

tweak1617

carry-knave1623

prostibule1623

fling-dusta1625

mar-taila1625

night-shadea1625

waistcoateera1625

night trader1630

coolera1632

meretrician1631

painted ladya1637

treadle1638

buttock1641

night-walker1648

mob?1650

lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651

lady of pleasure1652

trugmullion1654

fallen woman1659

girlc1662

high-flyer1663

fireship1665

quaedama1670

small girl1671

visor-mask1672

vizard-mask1672

bulker1673

marmalade-madam1674

town miss1675

town woman1675

lady of the night1677

mawks1677

fling-stink1679

Whetstone whore1684

man-leech1687

nocturnal1693

hack1699

strum1699

fille de joie1705

market-dame1706

screw1725

girl of (the) town1733

Cytherean1751

street girl1764

monnisher1765

lady of easy virtue1766

woman (also lady) of the town1766

kennel-nymph1771

chicken1782

stargazer1785

loose fish1809

receiver general1811

Cyprian1819

mollya1822

dolly-mop1834

hooker1845

charver1846

tail1846

horse-breaker1861

professional1862

flagger1865

cocodette1867

cocotte1867

queen's woman1871

common prostitute1875

joro1884

geisha1887

horizontal1888

flossy1893

moth1896

girl of the pavement1900

pross1902

prossie1902

pusher1902

split-arse mechanic1903

broad1914

shawl1922

bum1923

quiff1923

hustler1924

lady of the evening1924

prostie1926

working girl1928

prostisciutto1930

maggie1932

brass1934

brass nail1934

mud kicker1934

scupper1935

model1936

poule de luxe1937

pro1937

chromo1941

Tom1941

pan-pan1949

twopenny upright1958

scrubber1959

slack1959

yum-yum girl1960

Suzie Wong1962

mattress1964

jamette1965

ho1966

sex worker1971

pavement princess1976

parlour girl1979

crack whore1990

1971 N.Y. Times 7 Nov. 1/5 Coupling rage and laughter, detailing joys among urban field hands, thieves, postal workers, sex workers, factory workers, and the inevitable unemployed, and letting them specify what America is to a great many black folks.

1984 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 18 July ‘Sex workers unite’, declared Carol Leigh.

2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health ii. 345 Syphilis prevalence has increased globally over recent years, especially in inner cities where it is associated with sex workers and drug use.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sex
释义	sexn.¹ Brit. /sɛks/, U.S. /sɛks/ Forms: α. Middle English–1600s sexe, Middle English– sex, 1500s seex. β. 1500s sext. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French sexe; Latin sexus. Etymology: < Middle French, French sexe the genitals (c1200 in Old French as sex ), gender, state of being male or female (c1230, 14th cent. as a social category, 1546 with reference to plants), sexuality, physical lovemaking, eroticism (1856) and its etymon classical Latin sexus (u- stem) state of being male or female, specific qualities associated with being male or female, males or females collectively, sexual organs, of uncertain origin (perhaps compare secāre to cut (see secant adj.), though the semantic connection is unclear). Compare Old Occitan sexe (1420), Catalan sexe (1515), Spanish sexo (first half of the 15th cent.), Portuguese sexo (1572), Italian sesso (14th cent.).Latin had also a form secus , neuter (indeclinable). With the third sex at sense 1b compare French troisième sexe (1817 with reference to masculine women, 1847 with reference to homosexuals). With the weak sex at Phrases 1a compare post-classical Latin sexus fragilis (c1455 in a British source), Middle French, French sexe fragile (1546), also sexe foible (1601). With the fair sex at Phrases 1a compare French beau sexe (1646). With the better sex at Phrases 1c compare post-classical Latin sexus melior (a1200 in a British source). With the in sense 3a after Middle French, French le sexe women, the female sex collectively (1580). A number of compounds from various semantic fields have earlier equivalents formed with sexual adj. (e.g. sexual organ at sexual adj. 3a, sexual discrimination n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 1, sexual offence n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 2). 1. a. Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions; (hence) the members of these categories viewed as a group; the males or females of a particular species, esp. the human race, considered collectively. Occasionally with plural verb. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > sex > a sex sexa1382 kinda1393 race1558 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. vi. 19 Of all þingez hauyng soule of eny flesch: two þou schalt brynge in to þe ark, þat male sex [L. sexus] & female: lyuen with þe. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 303 In suche Wormes is no sexe of male and femele. ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iv. pr. vi. 137 Þilke same ordre neweþ aȝein alle þinges growyng and fallyng a-doune by sembleables progressiouns of seedes and of sexes, þat is to sein, male and female. c1447 Queen Margaret To King in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. Introd. p. lxiii (MED) Docteurs sentences..parformyd daily twyes..to laude and honneur of sexe feminine. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere ii. p. clii I had as leue he bare them both a bare cheryte, as wyth the frayle feminyne sexe fall to far in loue. 1559 J. Aylmer Harborowe sig. E4^v Neither of them debarred the heires female..as though it had ben..vnnatural for that sexe to gouern. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. ii. sig. P3^v The sexe of womankind of all other is most bound to haue regardfull eie to mens iudgements. 1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will sig. F3^v A woman they imagine her to be, Because that sexe keepes nothing close they heare. 1612 R. Johnson Crowne-Garland Goulden Roses sig. E8^v Our sex are given to range. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 274 If wee respect the..conformation of both the Sexes, the Male is sooner perfected..in the wombe. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 774 It was a weakness In me, but incident to all our sex . View more context for this quotation a1704 T. Brown Satire against Woman in Wks. (1707) I. i. 82 Thy Sex are all Pandora's; Mischiefs all. 1730 J. Swift Let. to Mrs. Whiteway 28 Dec. You have neither the scrawl nor the spelling of your sex. 1763 G. Williams in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) I. 265 It would astonish you to see the mixture of sexes at this place. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iv. 54 Our sex are like poor tradesmen. 1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) vi. §35 The sensibility of the female sex appears..to be greater than that of the male. 1839 H. Malcom Trav. (1840) 40/1 Neither sex tattoo any part of their bodies. 1846 Ecclesiologist Feb. 41 The propriety and necessity of dividing the sexes during the publick offices of the Church. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxv. 210 She was by no means so far superior to her sex as to be above jealousy. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. i. 161 It was a school..for both sexes. 1914 Amer. Med. 9 531/1 By nature all human beings are psychically bisexual—capable of loving a person of either sex. 1958 Listener 27 Nov. 891/2 By using this technique of ‘colour-ringing’ the author was able to record the histories of some forty birds of each sex. 1980 Times 22 May 12 Once you put them on a horse the female sex are far more deadly than the male. 2007 J. Mansell Thinking of You v. 30 Gavin was an enthusiastic chatter-upper of the opposite sex. b. In extended use, esp. as the third sex. A (notional) third division of humanity regarded as analogous to, or as falling between, the male and female sexes; spec. that consisting of: (a) eunuchs or transsexuals; †(b) humorously clergymen (obsolete); (c) homosexual people collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > castration > person > collectively the third sex1821 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto V xxvi. 148 A black old neutral personage Of the third sex stept up. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV lxxxvi. 114 From all the pope makes yearly 't would perplex To find three perfect pipes of the third sex. 1873 Ld. Houghton Monogr. 280 Sydney Smith..often spoke with much bitterness of the growing belief in three Sexes of Humanity—Men, Women, and Clergymen. 1896 J. A. Symonds Probl. in Mod. Ethics (new ed.) vi. 78 Burton..was led to surmise a crasis of the two sexes in persons subject to sexual inversion. Thus he came to speak of ‘the third sex’. 1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers II. xviii. 230 A very considerable measure of latent or unconscious homosexuality can be detected in all normal people. If these findings are taken into account, then..the supposition that nature in a freakish mood created a ‘third sex’ falls to the ground. 1977 C. Isherwood Christopher & his Kind ii. 20 Hirschfield..was..as a leading expert on homosexuality. Thousands of members of The Third Sex, as he called it, looked up to him as their champion. 2005 N.Y. Mag. 21 Nov. 77 He..tracks down..the ‘third sex’ hijras of India, the ‘lady-boy’ kathoey of Thailand, [etc.]. 2. Quality in respect of being male or female, or an instance of this; the state or fact of belonging to a particular sex; possession or membership of a sex. a. With regard to persons or animals.Since the 1960s increasingly replaced by gender (see gender n. 3b) when the referent is human, perhaps originally as a euphemism to distinguish this sense from sense 4b. The word sex tends now to refer to biological differences, while gender often refers to cultural or social ones. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > sex > quality or condition sexc1475 sexuality1797 sexhood1866 c1475 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 239 (MED) By the mouthe of a womman of fraile sexe was this woord passed. 1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 71^v If by corps supposed may be her seex, then sure a virgin she. 1616 T. Scot Philomythie sig. ¶2 Like as hares change shape and sex, some say Once euery yeare. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 50 A criticall view of bones makes a good distinction of sexes. 1682 G. Hartman Digby's Choice Coll. Rare Secrets ii. 225 Persons of all Ages and Sexes. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 7 Mar. (1948) I. 208 I find I was mistaken in the sex, 'tis a boy. 1757 T. Smollett Reprisal iv. v As for me, my sex protects me. 1787 J. M. Adair Med. Cautions (ed. 2) x. 289 (heading) The quantity..of foods and drinks used by persons in health ought to be accommodated to age, sex,..and climate. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed xiii, in Tales Crusaders I. 250 I am but a poor and neglected woman, feeble both from sex and age. 1851 Waukesha (Wisconsin) Democrat 21 Oct. 1/5 This right to franchise has been governed by..sex in the most liberal communities. 1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales 116 Oysters are of distinct sexes. 1933 L. Spier Yuman Tribes vii. 209 She needed to know no more than the sex and relative ages of the siblings. 1962 Diss. Abstr. 22 2829/1 The sex of the recipient animal had no effect on the survival of isografted fetal tissue. 1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) vi. 137 This time the sex was in no doubt—a pair of stupendous breasts could be seen. 2004 Nation's Restaurant News (Nexis) 23 Aug. 4 It..agreed to hire workers without regard to sex and to make sex-neutral job descriptions. b. With regard to plants (cf. female adj. 1d, male adj. 2). ΚΠ 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 28 Some seeme to haue both sexes and kindes: as the Oke, the Lawrell and such others. 1631 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 49 There be sexes of hearbes..namely, the Male or Female. 1720 P. Blair Bot. Ess. iv. 237 These being very evident Proofs of a necessity of two Sexes in Plants as well as in Animals. 1790 W. Smellie Philos. Nat. Hist. I. 245 There is not a notion more generally adopted, than that vegetables have the distinction of sexes. 1848 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) II. 80 Change of Sex under the influence of external causes. 1867 A. S. Fuller Small Fruit Culturist xi. 252 The Shepherdia, being diœcious, it is therefore necessary to plant one of each sex to obtain fruit. 1957 Fassett's Man. Aquatic Plants (rev. ed.) 182 In each sex the scales are often hairy, the many overlapping silky hairs of the expanding catkins making the familiar ‘Pussies’. 1990 National Gardening Mar. 38/1 The sex of an asparagus plant is dependent on a gene that breeders call the ‘m’ gene—a capital ‘M’ for male, and a small ‘m’ for female. 3. a. With the. The female sex. Now archaic or literary. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > women collectively wifkinOE womanOE womankinc1175 womankindc1175 womenkina1387 womenkinda1387 womanhoodc1405 feminityc1425 femininityc1450 femininec1451 the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex1536 the second sex1536 the woman sex1536 feminie1541 mesdames1552 the fairer (also gentler, softer, weaker, etc.) sex1578 sex1589 ladyhooda1666 fair1687 wimmin1710 womenfolk1729 mesdemoiselles1739 the female of the species1795 femalitiesc1801 ladykind1829 womanity1836 womandom1838 ladydom1843 petticoatery1849 tea-body1865 muslin1884 the skirt1899 quim1909 womyn1975 womxn1991 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 190 As he that had tolde a long tale before certaine noble women, of a matter somewhat in honour touching the Sex. 1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 101^v Not yet weighing with himselfe, the weaknesse and imbecillitie of the sex. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife ii. 24 He has a strange penchant to grow fond of me, in spight of his Aversion to the Sex. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 139 The men of Asia behave with more deference to the sex than you seem to imagine. 1789 A. Young Jrnl. 3 Nov. in Trav. France (1792) i. 220 The sex of Venice are undoubtedly of a distinguished beauty. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII lxxix. 94 We give the sex the pas. 1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. I. 22 Going ‘up stairs’, as the sex says, at 5 a.m. on the day after arrival, I cast the first glance at Funchal. 1920 D. Lindsay Voy. Arcturus i. 2 He was used to such receptions at the hands of the sex. 1986 T. Mo Insular Possession xi. 90 O'Rourke's antipathy to the sex may be entirely apocryphal. †b. In predicative use, without the. Feminine. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] femalea1382 womanisha1393 faira1450 women's-kinsc1450 feminatea1533 womankind?c1570 womenkind1571 sex1700 mollyish1801 petticoated1824 femme1925 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Cymon & Iphigenia in Fables 554 She hugg'd th' Offender, and forgave th' Offence, Sex to the last. 4. a. The distinction between male and female, esp. in humans; this distinction as a social or cultural phenomenon, and its manifestations or consequences; (in later use esp.) relations and interactions between the sexes; sexual motives, instincts, desires, etc.Now usually coloured by the more explicit sense at 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > sex sectc1386 gender1474 sexa1631 a1631 J. Donne Primrose in Songs & Sonn. in Poems (1912) I. 61 Should she Be more then woman, she would get above All thought of sexe, and think to move My heart to study her, and not to love. a1643 W. Cartwright Siedge iii. vi, in Comedies (1651) sig. I8 My Soul's As Male as yours; there's no Sex in the mind. 1749 W. Melmoth Lett. by Sir Thomas Fitzosborne II. lxii. 119 There may be a kind of sex in the very soul. 1751 J. Harris Hermes i. iv. 41 Besides Number, another characteristic, visible in Substances, is that of Sex. 1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer 68 Athenè..has nothing of sex except the gender, nothing of the woman except the form. 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways II. xiii. 325 A damsel..pursued by the idea of sex as the direct motive of every act of every person surrounding her. 1887 K. Pearson Ethics of Freethought (1888) xv. 429 What is the true type of social (moral) action in matters of sex? 1895 M. Crackanthorpe in 19th Cent. Apr. 614 The writers and readers who have strenuously refused to allow to sex its place in creative art. 1912 H. G. Wells Marriage ii. §6. 72 The young need..to be told..all we know of three fundamental things; the first of which is God,..and the third Sex. 1960 J. Bayley Characters of Love ii. 52 The appearance of Courtly Love..has left an immense legacy of received ideas about sex and society. 2005 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Nov. 18 A lot of women now like men to pay for them on dates... We've dealt with the outdated view of sex underpinning this. b. Physical contact between individuals involving sexual stimulation; sexual activity or behaviour, spec. sexual intercourse, copulation. to have sex (with): to engage in sexual intercourse (with).Now the most common general sense. Sometimes, when denoting sexual activity other than conventional heterosexual intercourse, preceded by modifying adjective, as gay, oral, phone sex, etc.: see the first element.safe, unprotected, unsafe sex, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse ymonec950 moneOE meanc1175 manredc1275 swivinga1300 couplec1320 companyc1330 fellowred1340 the service of Venusc1350 miskissinga1387 fellowshipc1390 meddlinga1398 carnal knowinga1400 flesha1400 knowledgea1400 knowledginga1400 japec1400 commoning?c1425 commixtionc1429 itc1440 communicationc1450 couplingc1475 mellingc1480 carnality1483 copulation1483 mixturea1500 Venus act?1507 Venus exercise?1507 Venus play?1507 Venus work?1507 conversation?c1510 flesh-company1522 act?1532 carnal knowledge1532 occupying?1544 congression1546 soil1555 conjunction1567 fucking1568 rem in re1568 commixture1573 coiture1574 shaking of the sheets?1577 cohabitation1579 bedding1589 congress1589 union1598 embrace1599 making-outa1601 rutting1600 noddy1602 poop-noddy1606 conversinga1610 carnal confederacy1610 wapping1610 businessa1612 coition1615 doinga1616 amation1623 commerce1624 hot cocklesa1627 other thing1628 buck1632 act of love1638 commistion1658 subagitation1658 cuntc1664 coit1671 intimacy1676 the last favour1676 quiffing1686 old hat1697 correspondence1698 frigging1708 Moll Peatley1711 coitus1713 sexual intercourse1753 shagging1772 connection1791 intercourse1803 interunion1822 greens1846 tail1846 copula1864 poking1864 fuckeea1866 sex relation1871 wantonizing1884 belly-flopping1893 twatting1893 jelly roll1895 mattress-jig1896 sex1900 screwing1904 jazz1918 zig-zig1918 other1922 booty1926 pigmeat1926 jazzing1927 poontang1927 relations1927 whoopee1928 nookie1930 hump1931 jig-a-jig1932 homework1933 quickie1933 nasty1934 jig-jig1935 crumpet1936 pussy1937 Sir Berkeley1937 pom-pom1945 poon1947 charvering1954 mollocking1959 leg1967 rumpy-pumpy1968 shafting1971 home plate1972 pata-pata1977 bonking1985 legover1985 knobbing1986 rumpo1986 fanny1993 1900 H. G. Wells Love & Mr. Lewisham xvii. 144 We marry in fear and trembling, sex for a home is the woman's traffic, and the man comes to his heart's desire when his heart's desire is dead. 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 57 If you want to have sex, you've got to trust At the core of your heart, the other creature. 1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer x. 174 Her arms went around his neck and his hand rested on her waist, and they had a brief moment of friendship before the sex began. 1962 Listener 7 June 1006/2 Why wasn't Bond ‘more tender’ in his love-making? Why did he just ‘have sex’ and disappear? 1971 Petticoat 17 July 6/2 The most conspicuous consequence of sex before marriage is the possibility of pregnancy. 1991 Locus May 38/3 She strongly disapproved of the sex and violence now making its way into young-adult fiction, under the guise of ‘problem stories’. 2005 Time 10 Oct. 45/3 Multiple studies have found most teens with same-sex attractions have had sex with both boys and girls. 5. slang or euphemistic. A person's genitals. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun] shapea1000 shameOE i-cundeOE memberc1300 privy memberc1325 kindc1330 privitiesc1375 harness1382 shameful parts1382 genitoriesa1387 partc1390 tailc1390 genitalsa1393 thingc1405 genitalc1450 privy parts1533 secret1535 loin?1541 genitures1548 filthy parts1553 shamefulness1561 ware1561 meatc1564 natural places1569 secret members1577 lady ware1592 natural parts1601 lady's ware1608 gear1611 private parts1623 groin1631 pudendums1634 natural1650 privacies1656 sex1664 secrecyc1675 nudities1677 affair1749 sexual parts1753 person1824 sex organ1847 privates1940 naughty bits1972 the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis weapona1000 tarsec1000 pintleOE cock?c1335 pillicock?c1335 yard1379 arrowa1382 looma1400 vergea1400 instrumentc1405 fidcocka1475 privya1500 virile member (or yard)?1541 prickc1555 tool1563 pillock1568 penis1578 codpiece1584 needle1592 bauble1593 dildo1597 nag1598 virility1598 ferret1599 rubigo?a1600 Jack1604 mentula1605 virge1608 prependent1610 flute1611 other thing1628 engine1634 manhood1640 cod1650 quillity1653 rammer1653 runnion1655 pego1663 sex1664 propagator1670 membrum virile1672 nervea1680 whore-pipe1684 Roger1689 pudding1693 handle?1731 machine1749 shaft1772 jock1790 poker1811 dickyc1815 Johnny?1833 organ1833 intromittent apparatus1836 root1846 Johnson1863 Peter1870 John Henry1874 dickc1890 dingusc1890 John Thomasc1890 old fellowc1890 Aaron's rod1891 dingle-dangle1893 middle leg1896 mole1896 pisser1896 micky1898 baby-maker1902 old man1902 pecker1902 pizzle1902 willy1905 ding-dong1906 mickey1909 pencil1916 dingbatc1920 plonkerc1920 Johna1922 whangera1922 knob1922 tube1922 ding1926 pee-pee1927 prong1927 pud1927 hose1928 whang1928 dong1930 putz1934 porkc1935 wiener1935 weenie1939 length1949 tadger1949 winkle1951 dinger1953 winky1954 dork1961 virilia1962 rig1964 wee-wee1964 Percy1965 meat tool1966 chopper1967 schlong1967 swipe1967 chode1968 trouser snake1968 ding-a-ling1969 dipstick1970 tonk1970 noonies1972 salami1977 monkey1978 langer1983 wanker1987 1664 T. Killigrew Princess ii. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 22 Another ha's gon through with the bargain... One that will find the way to her Sex, before you'le come to kissing her hand. 1807 R. S. Pandeet in J. H. Hindley Antient Indian Lit. 129 Taking two pieces of coloured cloth, dyed red, one of them for hiding his sex and the other for clothing his body [etc.]. 1938 D. Gascoyne Hölderlin's Madness 18 And the black cypresses strained upwards like the sex of a hanged man. 1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It xviii. 162 His eyes turned to his pants, gaping open, and his sex sick as an overhandled rattler gaping through. 1977 T. Allbeury Man with President's Mind i. 9 The narrow white briefs that barely captured her sex. 2003 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 2 Mar. 2 And he put in a fake sex (penis) because he wanted to make the scene more real, more rude. Phrases P1. a. the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex: the female sex, women. Similarly †the devout sex, †the woman sex, the second sex.In more recent use often ironical or humorous, but also sometimes offensive (when the phrase may be viewed as implying that women are inferior to men, as with the weak sex). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > women collectively wifkinOE womanOE womankinc1175 womankindc1175 womenkina1387 womenkinda1387 womanhoodc1405 feminityc1425 femininityc1450 femininec1451 the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex1536 the second sex1536 the woman sex1536 feminie1541 mesdames1552 the fairer (also gentler, softer, weaker, etc.) sex1578 sex1589 ladyhooda1666 fair1687 wimmin1710 womenfolk1729 mesdemoiselles1739 the female of the species1795 femalitiesc1801 ladykind1829 womanity1836 womandom1838 ladydom1843 petticoatery1849 tea-body1865 muslin1884 the skirt1899 quim1909 womyn1975 womxn1991 the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > speak of or mention > talk about something specified the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex1536 1536 P. Melancthon Confessyon of Fayth of Germaynes f. 24 This happenyd also..in Monasteries of women..not withstonding that the weake sexe or kynde ought more to haue ben spared. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Eviiv The magnificency & liberalitie of that gentle sex.] 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iii. sig. H4 I am bound by a strong vow to kisse all of the woman sex I meet this morning. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 246 The Pillar..at which the devout sex are always rubbing their Chaplets. 1688–9 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 294 Lovers and courters of the fair sex. 1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. Ded. sig. A2 To the Ladies, Gentlewomen, and Others, of the Fair-Sex, the Author Humbly Dedicates this following Work. 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 435 The King insults the Goddess as she flies..Go, let thy own soft Sex employ thy Care. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xxiv. 142 The fair Sex have now nothing to do but dress and paint. 1801 Port Folio 23 May 166/3 I prefer the favours of the fair sex to the company of the soakers, and so there is an end to all drinking. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV cviii. 125 Benign ceruleans of the second sex! Who advertise new poems by your looks. 1836 W. Irving Widow's Ordeal in Magnolia for 1837 257 It is somewhat remarkable that..the gentler sex should have been most frequently the subjects of these rude trials. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. iv. vi. 14 In addition to those qualities which please the softer sex, Legard was a good whist-player. 1896 J. K. Bangs House-boat on Styx vii. 86 But go along and have your ladies' day here, and never mind my reasons for preferring my own society to that of the fair sex. 1928 D. K. Parker tr. Schopenhauer: Selections 443 Women..form the sexus sequior—the second sex. 1953 H. M. Parshley tr. S. de Beauvoir (title) The second sex. 1974 J. Mitchell Psychoanal. & Feminism ii. ii. 306 Woman is the archetype of the oppressed consciousness: the second sex. 1996 L. Lowndes How to make Anyone fall in Love with You xxxvi. 217 Another gentle habit of the gentle sex that, unfortunately, drives men stark raving berserk. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 June 44/3 The translation is sometimes old-fashioned (who now describes women as ‘the fair sex’?). b. With comparative adjectives: the fairer (also gentler, softer, weaker, etc.) sex.In more recent use often ironical or humorous, but also sometimes offensive (when the phrase may be viewed as implying that women are inferior to men, as with the weaker sex). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > women collectively wifkinOE womanOE womankinc1175 womankindc1175 womenkina1387 womenkinda1387 womanhoodc1405 feminityc1425 femininityc1450 femininec1451 the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex1536 the second sex1536 the woman sex1536 feminie1541 mesdames1552 the fairer (also gentler, softer, weaker, etc.) sex1578 sex1589 ladyhooda1666 fair1687 wimmin1710 womenfolk1729 mesdemoiselles1739 the female of the species1795 femalitiesc1801 ladykind1829 womanity1836 womandom1838 ladydom1843 petticoatery1849 tea-body1865 muslin1884 the skirt1899 quim1909 womyn1975 womxn1991 1578 T. Churchyard Disc. Queenes Entertainem. sig. F. iij The weaker sexe, in beautie doth excell. 1618 R. Brathwait Good Wife sig. B6, in P. Hannay Happy Husband (1619) He should dispence with lighter faults, not vex Himselfe for trifles, shee's the weaker sex. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. v. ix. sig. Ll8^v Persons of the fairer Sex. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xiv. l. 213 The softer sex, attending Him And his still-growing woes. 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty x. 65 An elegant degree of plumpness peculiar to the skin of the softer sex. 1786 Adventures George Maitland II. v. 116 Her voice was shrill, but melodious, she spoke with a readiness and facility upon most subjects, and possessed an understanding not very common in the softer sex. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. vi. 76 It was rather hard on Maggie that Tom always absconded,..but the weaker sex are acknowledged to be serious impedimenta in cases of flight. 1894 C. D. Tyler in Geogr. Jrnl. 3 479 They are beardless, and usually wear a shock of unkempt hair, which is somewhat finer in the gentler sex. 1961 ‘F. O'Brien’ Hard Life v. 42 Decent people should look after women—isn't that right? The weaker sex. 1997 Daily Express 19 Feb. 23/1 Far from being the gentler sex, they [sc. women as bosses] are more likely to behave like dictators. 2005 Good Weekend (Austral.) 8 Jan. 8/2 A distinctive Japanese style of manga cartoon for the fairer sex. c. the sterner (also†better, †rougher, stronger) sex: the male sex, men. Now rare.In more recent use often ironical or humorous, but also sometimes offensive (when the phrase may be viewed as implying that women are inferior to men, as with the stronger sex). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > men collectively wapman-kinc1175 manc1300 menkinda1470 mankind1526 manhood1588 mens-kind1592 the sterner (alsobetter, rougher, stronger) sex1608 lords of creation1649 menfolk1749 masculinity1860 1608 Bp. J. King Serm. St. Maries Oxf. 27 Nature hath more enabled the stronger sexe to vndergoe this burthen. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 22 Whiles the better sex seek prey abroad, the women (therein like themselves) keep home and spin. 1702 G. Miège New State Eng. (ed. 4) ii. 82 A Queen, whose incomparable Wisdom will ever be admired by future Ages, as..a Pattern to Princes of the better Sex. 1724 Love upon Tick 18 Whatever Influence, Age, or Infirmities, may have on one, and that the rougher sex, yet the Impressions made on the other are so deep [etc.]. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 254 Divest the rougher sex of female airs. 1819 J. Foster Contrib. Eclectic Rev. (1844) I. 508 It was not..thought too much for persons of the stronger sex, to go and return many miles on foot. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. Introd. Ep. p. ix I abide by the general opinion, that he is of the rougher sex. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiv. 312 ‘Mama’ is rather a misanthropist, is she not? Not the best opinion of the sterner sex? 1861 Southern Literary Messenger May 397/2 It is perhaps from utter despair..that so many of the better sex have..perpetrated of late years so many extravagancies in that region [sc. the north]. 1915 New Fun 12 June 11/2 Now, through not taking a man's part, we have turned them into a weaker sex, and it is we girl-boys who are the stronger sex. 1927 Bright Ideas for Entertaining (rev. ed.) 233 If women are to do men's work in the world, the occupations of the sterner sex must change also and become those formerly handled by women. 2005 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 5 Sept. King Parikshit and maybe King Janaka restore our faith in the sterner sex somewhat, but..the draw of the novel lies in the strength of its women. d. the opposite sex: see opposite adj. 2b. P2. organ of sex: (usually in plural) any one of the reproductive organs in sexed animals or plants; = sex organ n. at Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1792 tr. P. M. F. de Pagès Trav. Round World III. xxix. 237 The general colour of the Whale is black; the under part and edges of the mouth are white,..the paps of the female, and the organs of sex, are white. 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 610 On the floor of this last grotto, Senhor Penna found several urns... All the tubular vases..have the organs of sex, male or female, carefully and prominently represented. 1896 Science New Ser. June 826 The stamen is..as much a member or organ of sex as the root is an organ of nutrition. 1955 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 41 670 In these animals [sc. young opossums] the internal organs of sex were all strongly transformed. 2000 Wisconsin Employment Law Let. (Nexis) Nov. Identifying emotionally or psychologically with the sex other than one's biological or legal sex at birth, whether or not there has been a physical change of the organs of sex. P3. sex (and) drugs and rock 'n' roll: used to denote a hedonistic and extravagant lifestyle of a type associated with rock music and rock musicians, or with youth culture generally. Cf. rock 'n' roll adj. ΚΠ 1969 Life 17 Oct. 77 The counter culture has its sacraments in sex, drugs and rock.] 1971 Spectator 16 Oct. 556 Not for nothing is the youth culture characterized by sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. 1977 I. Dury & C. Jankel (title of song) Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. 1978 Observer 28 May 30/6 King's College, Cambridge is ‘probably the zappiest college with quite a lot of sex, drugs and rock-and-roll’. 1986 M. Davies et al. Half Earth xii. 267 Goa is seen by Indians as the place, par excellence, where hippies congregate with their sex and drugs and rock' n' roll. 2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 17 Mar. (Life Suppl.) 4/3 Boyden's gripping debut novel follows childhood pals from their first game of truth or dare down the rabbit hole of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. P4. Chiefly British. sex and shopping: a genre of popular fiction featuring wealthy and glamorous characters who typically engage in frequent sexual encounters and extravagant spending, esp. on designer goods. Frequently attributive: designating (a novel of) this genre. Cf. bonkbuster n. ΚΠ 1985 Ladies' Home Jrnl. May 92 Jackie Collins, charming, vibrant and stunningly attractive, could serve as at least a minor character in one of her sex-and-shopping-among-the-rich-and-famous page-turners.] 1986 Washington Post 20 May b4/3 Sure enough, her powerful brand of S&S (sex and shopping) sold 4.6 million copies and made little Judy Tarcher an overnight success. 1987 Times (Nexis) 11 May A researcher employed on Conran's ‘sex and shopping’ blockbuster, Lace. 1995 Daily Tel. 20 Mar. 6/4 He's not a writer because he writes the ‘other stuff’, I'm not talking about people who write sex and shopping. 2000 Book May 52/1 The bestselling author and creator of the ‘sex and shopping’ genre is thin as a sparrow and looks a well-preserved fifty. P5. Sex on the Beach n. (also with lower-case initials) originally U.S. a sweet cocktail made with vodka, liqueur (usually peach schnapps), and fruit juice. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cocktail > [noun] > vodka cocktail Bloody Mary1939 Moscow mule1944 screwdriver1948 vodka martini1953 vodkatini1955 Black Russian1957 White Russian1965 bloody1967 vodka Collins1969 Bloody Caesar1972 vodka gimlet1974 kamikaze1979 Sex on the Beach1986 caipiroska1990 appletini1997 1986 Frederick (Maryland) Post 23 May g8/2 (advt.) ‘Sex on the Beach’ shooters $1.50. 1994 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 22 May (Mag. section) 18 Vodka and juices; Absolute preferred—from sex on the beach, with cranberry and pineapple juices and peach schnapps, to the Cape Cod, with cranberry juice. 2006 J. G. Hayes Map of Harbor Islands xvi. 213 She'd only had two and a half Sex on the Beaches but she could never hold her booze when she was dieting. P6. colloquial (chiefly British and Australian). sex on legs: extremely sexy or sexually desirable. Chiefly as predicate. ΚΠ 1988 Herald (Melbourne) 28 Mar. (Gold TV Guide Suppl.) 16/3 Those searching for something beyond his ‘sex-on-legs’ persona were rewarded. 1995 Evening Standard (Nexis) 27 Apr. 29 Female friends say he's sex on legs. 2002 M. Gayle Dinner for Two 351 You have to believe you're sex on legs. It's a survival mechanism. Compounds C1. General attributive, with sense ‘of, relating to, or characterized by sex, involving sex’ (chiefly in senses 2 and 4).Many of the compounds listed here are paralleled by uses of sexual: see sexual adj. sex activity n. ΚΠ 1898 C. P. Stetson Women & Econ. iii. 44 Woman..has developed in the lines of action to which she was confined; and those were always lines of sex-activity. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female x. 208 The burden of choosing between sex activity and other activities has been taken off the individual. 1996 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 15 Aug. e1 Longueuil police have been sending four undercover police officers into the park..to clear out daytime sex activities. sex addict n. ΚΠ 1927 Chicago Tribune 19 Nov. 16 (advt.) Sex-addicts who advertise. 1965 Xenia (Ohio) Daily Gaz. 1 Feb. 14/2 They play up the thrill seekers and the sex addicts. 2003 Marie Claire Dec. 112/1 John is a diagnosed sex addict... John..has had 24 affairs. sex affair n. ΚΠ 1912 W. Healy Case Stud. Mentally Abnormal Types 29 Miserable sex affairs of lowest order, on occasions over long time... Boy himself admits affairs. 1996 Seattle Times (Nexis) 17 Mar. i. 1 She had occasional sex affairs. It was always understood with the men that the affairs were to be temporary. sex-anger n. ΚΠ 1903 J. H. Yoxall Alain Tanger's Wife vii. 47 Sex-anger rose in me; it was not cupidity alone that stirred me now. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo xiii. 294 And if for a time you do overcome her with reason, the sex-anger only arises more hideously. 1991 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 14 Apr. (Review Suppl.) 16 They had a very cold relationship. And this explains why she explodes into sex-anger when he dies. sex antagonism n. ΚΠ 1896 19th Cent. Nov. 780 Women have desired that their public work should be on the broad line of homo man..not on the narrow one of sex affinity, much less of sex antagonism. 1952 A. Christie Mrs. McGinty's Dead xii. 93 We really get a feeling of sex antagonism between the chap and the girl. 2000 Sunday Telegram (Mass.) (Nexis) 15 Oct. b4 Although she occasionally felt sex antagonism from male scientists,..her accomplishments gave her tremendous satisfaction. sex awareness n. ΚΠ 1914 J. A. Thomson Wonder of Life vi. 411 In Echinoderms, for instance, the absence of ganglia puts definite sex-awareness out of the question. 1996 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 18 Aug. b3 The organization plans to work with local school systems to raise sex awareness among parents and children. sex behaviour n. ΚΠ 1913 A. Moll tr. E. Paul Sexual Life of Child (ed. 2) Introd. p. vii For the physician in such cases to..give more than perfunctory general counsel, knowledge of the psychology of sex-behavior, as well as its physiology, is necessary. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female xvii. 354 The exaggerated over-concern with the other..puts an extraordinary strain on sex behaviour. 1992 Jrnl. Public Health Policy 13 20 It is easier to establish safer sex behaviour from the beginning than it is to change existing sexual behaviour. † sex circuit n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xvi. 221 Each acknowledges the perfection of the polarised sex-circuit. sex clinic n. ΚΠ 1914 Marshall (Mich.) News-Statesman 26 Sept. 4/3 There is no sex clinic, no white slave discussion,..it is a good old drama of our childhood days. 1972 Newsweek 27 Nov. 65 The sex clinic is fast becoming as vital a part of the modern hospital as the emergency room. 2007 Evening Standard (Nexis) 23 Nov. a26 A sex clinic is offering teenagers pregnancy tests and infection checks from a vending machine. sex complex n. ΚΠ 1912 B. Hart Psychol. Insanity viii. 103 In certain elderly unmarried women the ‘sex complex’, including in that..the various instincts belonging to sex, has been denied its natural outlet. 1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. iii. 8/5 He lost the [Funniest Accountant in America] contest because the judges felt he used his sex complex as a crutch. sex compulsion n. ΚΠ 1906 J. Y. F. Cooke Stories Strange Women 56 I have denounced..and desired them [sc. women]:..wondering always wherein their potency lay—how much to the universal sex compulsion, which is nothing to their credit, and how much to..the mere clothes. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover vi. 66 Be damned to the artificial sex-compulsion! I refuse it! 1992 Jrnl. Consumer Res. 19 173/2 Edward was unable to control his drug and sex compulsions even though he knew he was under police surveillance. sex conflict n. ΚΠ 1883 S. S. Hennell Present Relig. (1887) II. ii. i. 291 The giving to the bond of Marriage its own perfecting self-consistency, by the means of the included perfecting of the Sex-conflict. 1948 H. R. Mowrer in H. Becker & R. Hill Family, Marriage & Parenthood xii. 369 Sex conflict usually develops early in the marriage. 2003 Evolution 57 2591/2 Sexual selection and sex conflict have minimal consequences. sex consciousness n. ΚΠ 1891 M. D. Conway Prisons of Air xvi. 209 In physique, in sex-consciousness, she was still childlike. 1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles II. 193 ‘Sex consciousness’..remains for a long time, the male continuing to feed the female..even after the young are hatched. 2001 Irish Times (Nexis) 6 Jan. (Weekend section) 60 The most ascetic sort of sex consciousness—that of the elderly academic cleric—with its passion for bruising the body to pleasure the soul. sex contrast n. ΚΠ 1905 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 11 369 The psychological obliteration of the sex-contrast, found so conspicuously in the social life of the Syrians,..terminated in the conception of divinities which combined the two. 1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons iii. 263 The male ‘ends’ are salmon red or dull pink; the female ‘ends’ are greenish-grey or drab—the sex-contrast eking itself out in colour. 1993 Jrnl. Occup. Psychol. (Nexis) Mar. The sex contrast effect, which is characteristic especially of the perception of women, cannot completely explain the results [of a behavioural study]. sex correlation n. ΚΠ 1905 Lancet 5 Aug. 381/2 Sufficiently wide investigation would demonstrate the sex correlation of even the infective diseases, such as tuberculosis. 1978 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 6 33/2 Hunting participation is predominantly by males,..and we found a similar (but weaker) sex correlation for hunting attitudes. sex craving n. ΚΠ 1893 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 6 22 Snuff-taking may be conceived as an exploitation of the pleasure of the sneeze-craving, as lewd dances..are of that of the sex-craving. 1921 D. H. Lawrence Psychoanal. & Unconscious i. 20 The incest-craving is not the result of inhibition of normal sex-craving. 2005 Sunday Life (Belfast) (Nexis) 18 Dec. A disgraced former priest... has talked about his sex cravings and internet addiction. sex difference n. [compare French différence sexuelle (1761)] ΚΠ 1870 A. J. Davis Fountain ii. 28 There is a constitutional difference between a woman-nature and a man-nature which lies deeper than any habits or circumstances... This sex-difference was illustrated by Mr. R. Grant White. 1918 M. C. Stopes Married Love iii. 19 Vaguely, perhaps, men have realised that much of the charm of life lies in the sex-differences between men and women. 2000 Internat. Jrnl. Advertising 19 46 The proposition that sex differences in communication may indeed be biologically based rather than socially controlled. sex disqualification n. ΚΠ 1877 F. A. Maxse Woman Suffrage, Counterfeit & True i. 5 We demand that where it [sc. property] qualifies a man it shall qualify a woman—that there shall be no sex disqualification. 1919 Act 9 & 10 Geo. V c. 71 § 4 This Act may be cited as the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919. 1994 L. A. Hall in S. Oldfield This Working-day World xvii. 193 By the 1920s women over 30 had obtained parliamentary suffrage, and certain sex disqualifications had been removed. sex distinction n. ΚΠ a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 199 Sex-Distinctions too are laid aside. The Women wear the Trowsies and the Vest: While Men in Muffs, Fans, Petticoats are drest. 1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 317 From a state marked by a mere varying of the nuclear elements,..the sex-distinction slowly gathers definition. 1924 W. Lewis in New Statesman 24 May 191/2 The sex distinction has been very much diminished A period of sex-fusion having set in, sex qua sex has lost its importance. 2007 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. (Culture section) 54 Smith derides conventional sex distinction: ‘She was as brave and handsome and rough as a girl. She was as pretty and delicate and dainty as a boy.’ sex distribution n. ΚΠ 1885 Times 14 Jan. 4/1 While correcting these figures for age and sex distribution,..[he] makes no mention of adding the deaths of the inhabitants..who die in the public institutions. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female xiii. 266 The very simple accidents of sex distribution inside any family give a structure within which a child can feel unwanted. 2007 Dis. Risk Factor Week (Nexis) 10 June 655 Twenty-six patients had HCV [sc. hepatitis C virus]. The sex distribution, mean age, and dialysis duration were similar between groups. sex divergence n. ΚΠ 1899 Biblical World 13 403 There will also be interests more or less peculiar to sex, especially during those years when sex-divergence is marked. 1999 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 266 2148/1 (caption) Sex divergence in tail length relative to snout-vent length within red-sided gartersnakes. sex education n. [compare French éducation sexuelle (1892)] ΚΠ 1893 J. A. Symonds Let. 11 Feb. in S. Brady J. A. Symonds & Homosexuality (2012) 247 I feel very doubtful as to whether the Southern or Northern view of sex-education is the right one. 1908 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 8 246 With the quack medicine crusade waged by Collier's..and the sex education of the child on the part of Ladies Home Journal, there are hardly any of these magazines which the nurse may not choose..not only to read aloud but for her own edification. 1969 Guardian 7 Aug. 7/6 A series of sex-education talks I'd been giving at a North-east London youth club. 2002 V. Coren & C. Skelton Once more, with Feeling lii. 322 The brigade of Daily Mail piano-leg-covering prigs who think that a liberal sex education is some sort of foul perversion. sex educator n. ΚΠ 1912 I. S. Wile Sex Educ. i. 35 Enlightenment by parents as to the evolution of life..forestalls the vulgarity and obscenity of the usual sex educators—companions, servants, and gangsters. 1934 J. K. Folsom Family xvii Sex differences and reproduction. This knowledge, it is now agreed by most sex educators, should be given at an age much earlier than our traditional culture has favored. 2006 Guardian (Nexis) 15 May (Features section) 10 The second party had a female sex educator talk to attendees about female ejaculation. sex emotion n. ΚΠ 1897 K. Pearson Chances of Death II. 350 She [sc. the primitive mother-goddess] becomes a centre of sex-emotion, and a symbol of archaic race feeling. 1967 A. Marshall in Coast to Coast 1965–6 108 He was sure the men he knew were incapable of any sex emotion other than an animal lust. 2000 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 5 We're putting our sex-emotions where our nesting-emotions should be. sex equality n. ΚΠ 1882 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Weekly Times 17 Aug. It was a time of furore on the sex equality question. 1921 Daily Mail Year Bk. 42/1 The organization of the League of Nations has from the outset been founded on the principle of sex equality. 2006 Independent (Nexis) 2 Mar. (Features section) 18 She calls for a legal requirement for employers in the private sector to promote sex equality and eliminate sex discrimination. sex excitement n. ΚΠ 1903 E. A. Kirkpatrick Fund. Child Study vii. 113 Looking at the matter from the physiological side, we note that not infrequently some physical defect is the cause of sex excitement and perversion in childhood. 1980 Signs 5 706 A common insight about sex excitement to be found in many women's novels is that each person's history is an encoded set of reasons for arousal. sex experience n. ΚΠ 1892 A. W. Besant Reïncarnation 57 It seems likely that sex-experience constantly redresses the balance of the evolutionary process. 1919 M. C. Stopes Married Love (ed. 7) ix. 141 Women so harried by the undue drains of unregulated sex-experience. 2004 Pulse (Nexis) 16 Aug. 24 Nearly a third of males and a quarter of females aged 16 to 19 have had their first sex experience before the age of 16. sex exploitation n. ΚΠ 1908 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 17 Jan. 2/2 Along with economic exploitation has often gone sex exploitation. 2007 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 29 Aug. A..man was arrested yesterday after allegedly using the MySpace Internet site to lure a 15-year-old..girl into an odyssey of rape, sex exploitation and drug abuse. sex feeling n. ΚΠ 1869 Practitioner June 339 He was given to onanism, being quite overpowered by the sex-feeling: he deplored it. 1918 M. C. Stopes Married Love v. 50 Even after a woman's dormant sex-feeling is aroused..it may even take as much as from ten to twenty minutes of actual physical union to consummate her feeling. 2006 Harvard Jrnl. Law & Public Policy (Nexis) 22 June Ten [topics on a student questionnaire] were sexually explicit:..‘Getting scared or upset when I think about sex’, ‘Having sex feelings in my body’, ‘Can't stop thinking about sex’, [etc.]. sex festival n. ΚΠ 1897 K. Pearson Chances of Death II. x. 57 The important part played by women in the Dionysian sex-festival. 2004 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 27 June (Entertainment section) 17 f A weird backwoods sex festival that is a combination of spring-break orgy and biker rally. sex fiend n. ΚΠ 1915 C. Hamilton Miracle of Love ii. 98 He was a sex fiend, in the same way as men are opium fiends. 1976 T. Heald Let Sleeping Dogs Die vi. 111 She was picked up by a sex fiend..and raped. 2005 J. Trunk Dirty Fan Male 2 His uncanny resemblance to Aleister Crowley, London's legendary black magician and sex fiend. sex film n. ΚΠ 1914 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 9 July 12/5 (headline) Sex film at Grand is given the O.K. by local censors. 1970 Guardian 10 Dec. 10/4 From time to time we have to see, not sex films, but sex-instruction films. 2003 M. Bronski Pulp Friction iv. 255 Sex films of the fifties that were introduced by a ‘doctor’ explaining why the movie was ‘educational’. sex flow n. rare ΚΠ 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & Obscenity 26 The sex-flow is dying out of the young. 1984 T. Singh Lit. Criticism D.H. Lawrence iii. 55 Natural sex flow is the source not only of beauty but of intuition. sex function n. ΚΠ 1869 Practitioner June 338 These men [sc. in an insane asylum] are debarred from any natural exercise of their sex-function. 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & Obscenity 15 The sex functions and the excrementory functions in the human body work so close together, yet they are..utterly different in direction. 1997 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 5 May a1 The vigorous bike ride facilitated arousal in women with normal sex function as well as those with low sex desire. sex game n. ΚΠ a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. x. 244 The favorite children's games, often played in the open street with the elders looking on.., were sex games. 1976 J. Crosby Nightfall xxvi. 148 ‘Don't you like sex games?’ she said. 2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Aug. 5/2 Telling how humiliated she was by her husband's sex games. sex guru n. ΚΠ 1970 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 18 Sept. a3/2 Some of the most damning testimony to come out against the sex guru in the now 15-week-old trial. 2004 Eve Dec. 167/4 Could you go without sex..forever? Thousands of women do, says US sex guru. sex-hate n. ΚΠ 1914 H. de V. Stacpoole New Optimism iii. 107 The wicked and blasphemous people who talk of sex-hate. 1997 Guardian (Nexis) 30 Aug. t36 Their ‘fun night out’ ended with one of the worst sex-hate crimes in Britain since the Yorkshire Ripper killings of the late Seventies. sex-hatred n. ΚΠ 1897 E. B. Dietrick Women in Early Christian Ministry 52 The bitter misogyny of Tertullian's works, which were rousing fierce sex hatred on the part of men. 1998 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) (Nexis) 11 Oct. 9 It's this wistful wallflower who brings the undercurrents of violence and sex-hatred to full, tabloid-headline boil. sex heredity n. ΚΠ 1907 Science 8 Mar. 377/2 A very definite material basis, therefore, exists for a treatment of the sex characters as if they were Mendelian alternates, sex determination, as opposed to sex heredity, being a matter of Mendelian dominance. 1919 R. C. Punnett Mendelism (ed. 5) 100 They have been able to correlate these peculiar differences in sex-heredity with differences in the minute structure of the cells of which the bodies of the two sexes are composed. 1990 Times (Nexis) 20 July (Features section) He [sc. A. Parkes]..had published an essay on sex heredity in Science Progress [in 1921]. sex inertia n. ΚΠ 1907 H. Adams Educ. Henry Adams xxx. 387 History looked doubtful when asked whether race-inertia had ever been overcome without destroying the race in order to reconstruct it; but surely sex-inertia had never been overcome at all. 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & So On (1936) 45 You may even bring about a state of utter indifference and sex-inertia. 1997 S. A. Smith & R. P. Croll in T. Adams Reprod. Biol. Invertebr. VIII. iv. 76 Studies..showed that estradiol, progesterone, and testosterones are involved in stimulation of mitotic activity of the gonad at the stage of sex inertia. sex instruction n. ΚΠ 1907 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 13 25 On the part of the young, ignorance of the dangers which come from the irregular exercise of the sex function is compulsory; sound sex instruction is forbidden as improper. 1935 E. Bowen House in Paris i. iii. 42 We do not consider him ripe for direct sex-instruction yet, though my husband is working towards this through botany. 2006 Columbia Jrnl. Gender & Law (Nexis) 1 Jan. 12 These students are unlikely to appreciate that they should and could seek more comprehensive sex instruction from a more reliable source. sex joke n. ΚΠ 1910 I. Zangwill Ital. Fantasies xi. 404 The French..have too hobbledehoyish a devotion to the sex-joke, the Germans are too tamed, the Americans too untamed. 1941 ‘G. Orwell’ in Horizon 4 155 More than half, perhaps three-quarters, of the jokes are sex jokes. 2006 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 11 Sept. He cracked sex jokes..[and] flirted with reporters. sex-killing n. ΚΠ 1936 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 2 Sept. 1/6 (headline) 3 Quizzed in sex killing of rich spinster. 1997 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) May 82/1 The house was the scene of a vicious sex-killing. sex-longing n. ΚΠ 1912 J. D. Beresford Candidate for Truth 90 ‘She seems devoid of the sex longing.’ ‘Happily, yes!’ 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. II. iii. xiv. 183 All those..sex-longings..had long since been covered with an easy manner. 1958 New Statesman 5 Apr. 430/1 The mechanical two-dimensional sex-longings of a frustrated adolescent. sex love n. ΚΠ 1890 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 3 252 The basis of sex love among men is reproduction, and among savages exists as such and nothing more. 1976 R. Delmar in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley Rights & Wrongs of Women ix. 281 There are several conditions which, in Engels..make sex love the rule within the proletariat. 2007 M. R. B. Muhaiyaddeen God's Psychol. 126 One is true love and one is selfish love, sex love, carnal love. sex magazine n. ΚΠ 1920 D. Byrne Foolish Matrons xix. 271 She picked up a cheap sex magazine. 1980 P. Kinsley Vatchman Switch vii. 66 The customs officer..sold any sex-magazines he could confiscate from foreign tourists. 2003 E. Schlosser Reefer Madness iii. 117 A sex magazine produced at least twenty times the revenue per copy of a remaindered comic book. sex man n. ΚΠ 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xii. §1 He was more than a sex-man. 2004 K. E. Riggs Granny @ Work iv. 95 There might be a pedophile. A sex man on there. sex mania n. ΚΠ 1895 Fortn. Rev. Apr. 592 Sex mania in art and literature can be but a passing phase. 1976 E. Trudgill Madonnas & Magdalens ix. 243 The hysterical reaction against aestheticism, the fiction of sexuality, and other symptoms of sex mania in literature, was partly the product of a sudden fear about the country's moral health. sex maniac n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] > lascivious or lustful person > extremely erotomaniac1858 satyromaniac1891 sex maniac1893 1893 H. H. Gardener Facts & Fictions Life 185 That it [sc. the licence for debauchery allowed young men] should end in the wreck of the sex maniac himself and in his own destruction. 1971 Daily Tel. 14 Dec. 3 The Jersey sex maniac..was jailed for 30 years yesterday for 13 indecent and sexual offences against young girls and boys. 2001 P. Burston Shameless viii. 114 He already knew that David found his father attractive. What if the E turned his father into a sex maniac? sex manifestation n. ΚΠ 1899 E. Hubbard Little Journeys to Homes of Eminent Painters ii. 62 Ambition is the concomitant of rivalry, and sex is its chief promoter—it is a secondary sex manifestation. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female viii. 167 These [sc. seizures] are extremely violent, but without specific sex manifestations. 1990 J. Sapp Where Truth Lies iii. 72 [In Hartmann's theory of sexuality] the sex manifestation by a cell is the result of a weakening or strengthening of the expression of either the male or the female potency. sex manual n. ΚΠ 1922 T. J. Pierce (title) Sex manual: a scientific, physiological and hygienic study of the sex question. 1975 H. McCloy Minotaur Country iii. 21 He would be a sober, industrious lover. He would read all the sex manuals. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 31 Aug. 167/2 [The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex] is better than most sex manuals because it's comprehensive. sex-mate n. ΚΠ 1929 G. W. Deeping Roper's Row vii. § 1 She saw in him a man-child who would need the mother in woman more than the sex-mate. 1995 M. Garber Vice Versa iv. xxi. 488 And Jean knew Christopher's ‘sexmates’ but ‘showed no desire to share them’. sex movie n. ΚΠ 1921 New Castle (Pa.) News 19 Jan. 2/5 (heading) Prevent ‘sex’ movies in Chicago. 2004 D. Kepler in N. Foster Skin Deep 2 193 Making all that noise like you were in a sex movie. Nice girls don't do that. sex novel n. ΚΠ 1895 Critic (N.Y.) 23 Mar. 223/2 The tedious and tawdry sex-novel is long dead; even at the libraries it lies neglected in the catacombs. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 23/2 Amid the unmitigated torrent of sadistic sex novels works of reflection are tolerated only if they are..‘warmly human’. 2002 Sociol. Perspectives 45 155 In the course of a century, The Awakening moved from reviled sex novel..to revered icon firmly established in the pantheon of American literature. sex obsession n. ΚΠ 1897 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 2 Jan. 12/1 [Shakespeare] gave to its [sc. his London world's] perpetual sex-obsession the relief of individual character and feminine winsomeness. 1920 F. M. Ford Let. 19 Sept. (1965) 127 The end would be the most horribly costive neurastheniac you can imagine, with incredible sex obsessions sedulously concealed. 2004 Independent 22 June i. 32/1 The Britain I see around me every day howls with the pain of drugs, alcoholism, violence,..[and] sex obsession. sex orgy n. ΚΠ 1914 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 1 Mar. 5/6 A prolonged sex orgy set to music. 1962 J. Heller Catch-22 xxi. 208 Officers' clubs everywhere pulsated with blurred but knowing accounts of lavish, hushed-up drinking and sex orgies there. 2000 Elle Sept. 184/1 Incredibly involved sex, where the male half of one [hermaphrodite snail] is screwing the female half of the other, and vice versa—a sort of simultaneous, four-way sex orgy. sex partner n. ΚΠ 1913 W. A. McKeever Training the Boy 203 The mating off and choosing sex partners in the games, and the other forms of accentuating the individual sex consciousness. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female ix. 195 But patterns that regulate competition in the choice of sex partners are learned patterns. 2005 M. O'Connor Bitch Posse i. 5 [Sex] addicts do it with random people in dark alleys, strangers they'll never see again, have sex partners into the hundreds. sex party n. ΚΠ 1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iii. xiv. 267 Gang shag, sex party in the alley. 1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. i. 8 He told him of..his innumerable girls and sex-parties and pornographic pictures. 2007 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram (Nexis) 14 Sept. d8 Stories emerged that sex parties had been held for football recruits at Colorado. sex power n. ΚΠ 1903 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 21 Mar. 9/3 Fremont was a beautiful girl, a charming woman, had that mysterious sex power over men so much prattled about. 1977 London's Outrage i. 7 The bully-boy sex-power of Nazism/fascism is very attractive and an easy solution to our complex moral and social dilemmas. 2007 Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 19 May A man who lost his sex power through electric shock as he worked near Kenya Power and Lighting Company..live wires has been awarded Sh4 million. sex pride n. ΚΠ 1893 W. D. Howells Coast of Bohemia xii. 81 She had her sex-pride in the Synthesis..because..women had borne an important part in founding it. 1925 G. W. Deeping Three Rooms xxv. § 2 She was in a state of emotional confusion, rebel and lonely child, the victim of her unrealized sex-pride. 1994 Women's Rev. Bks. (Nexis) Jan. 11 Trying to whip up some old-fashioned sex pride among the demoralized troops. sex privilege n. ΚΠ 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxvii. 105 You cannot have celebrity and sex-privilege both. 1924 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 24 834/2 Health is not a sex privilege. 2002 Washington Times (Nexis) 8 Aug. a17 The system of race and sex privileges known as quotas that are thoroughly institutionalized throughout the government, private industry and universities. sex problem n. ΚΠ 1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 399 To those who have studied the sex problem from the scientific stand-point, the doctrine that the sexes are thoroughly distinct mentally as well as physically goes without saying. 1900 J. X. Merriman Let. 1 July (1966) 222 The shrieking sisterhood who write on sex problems and scream out for votes. 1993 W. Self My Idea of Fun 150 There was this sex problem, of course, and there was something else, a rootlessness, an atemporality about my life. sex question n. ΚΠ 1880 N. Amer. Rev. July 69 In arguments upon the sex question it is usually claimed that women have a finer moral development than men. 1917 F. W. S. Browne in Proc. Brit. Soc. for Study Sex Psychol. 7 General early marriage, even if possible under present conditions, does not solve the sex question. 2007 University Wire (Nexis) 27 Sept. This is a bit embarrassing, but I'm sure all sex questions are. I just recently got together with my boyfriend... Our sex is, well, boring. sex scandal n. ΚΠ 1913 Des Moines (Iowa) News 31 Aug. 7/4 Mason is the woman in the case in a brand new sex scandal. 1958 A. Mayce tr. R. Lewinsohn Hist. Sexual Customs 176 There were sex-scandals in Protestant circles in no way behind those of papal Rome. 2002 Independent 27 Sept. 17/1 Australia's top intelligence agency is being undermined by sex scandals, nepotism and corruption. sex show n. ΚΠ 1948 Amarillo (Texas) Sunday News-Globe 8 Aug. 19/3 The regular run of movies have more suggestive scenes and lines than most sex shows. 2007 Boston Globe (Nexis) 16 Sept. m1 Prostitutes, explicit sex shows, and X-rated shops..abound. sex slave n. ΚΠ 1905 Arena Dec. 582/1 [He] still esteems it akin to treason for the sex-slave in marriage to refuse to render sex-service. 2007 Irish News (Nexis) 16 Aug. 28 He denied that Asian women were forced to work as sex slaves in military brothels during the war. sex slavery n. ΚΠ 1893 M. D. O'Brien Nat. Right to Freedom xvi. 261 The calm and peaceful ‘affinity’ of reason is independent of sex and lust, and no one need break their agreements or plunge into a sex slavery in order to find it. 2006 Winston-Salem (N. Carolina) Jrnl. (Nexis) 23 Aug. 10 Children are either sold into sex slavery by their parents or are kidnapped after being lured to the big cities with promises of work. sex-specificity n. ΚΠ 1922 G. S. Hall Senescence vi. 298 Male and female hormones..have a sex specificity that is the main factor in directing growth. 1947 V. G. Dethier Chem. Insect Attractants & Repellents 19 There are reasons why sex specificity also must exist... The food preferences of both sexes are not always identical (e.g., mosquitoes). 2001 D. Rowland et al. Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour i. 5 All too frequently, the findings from samples of females are discussed as being female-specific, but single-sex studies cannot address the sex-specificity of their findings. sex starvation n. ΚΠ 1894 E. Carpenter Marriage in Free Soc. 11 The special evils of sex-starvation and sex-ignorance on the one hand, and of mere licentiousness on the other. 1994 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 26 Nov. 4 It was generally infidelity as a result of sex starvation that led to the final [marriage] breakdown. sex stereotype n. ΚΠ 1949 M. Mead Male & Female vi. 137 A sex stereotype that decries the interests..of each sex is usually not completely without a basis. 1999 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 15 Apr. a15 Sex stereotypes are endorsed if they're positive (e.g. that women are more nurturing than men) and denounced if they're negative (e.g., that women are less intelligent than men). sex stereotyping n. ΚΠ 1946 G. H. Seward Sex & Social Order ix. 113 We should also bear in mind that the problem of sex stereotyping is complicated by the factor of emotional security. 2005 Irish Independent (Nexis) 4 May A Vodafone newspaper ad was held guilty of sex stereotyping. It carried a picture of five cleaners, all women. sex story n. ΚΠ 1896 in H. Kingsley Austin Elliot (Advt. section) To readers who are weary of ‘problem-studies’ and sex-stories..the volume will afford infinite pleasure. 1936 ‘G. Orwell’ Keep Aspidistra Flying xi. 295 Fools demanding crime-stories and sex-stories and romances. 2004 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 400/2 A black rain of political agendas, deadline pressures, raging lawyers, and weird sex stories. sex talk n. ΚΠ 1910 E. H. Muncie Four Epochs Life vii. 54 This first little sex talk to my boy I hope to make the foundation of a series of Nature Stories. 1931 G. J. Renier English iv. 85 The wide-spread ignorance of the technique of love among average Englishmen..results from the taboo on direct sex-talk. 1977 ‘C. Fremlin’ Spider-orchid xiii. 94 They have these sex talks..at school from the age of nine. 2000 W. Self How Dead Live (2001) iv. 94 All this Freudian sex talk was the preview, a blabbermouthed precursor of all the feckless promiscuity that was to follow in the sixties. sex thrill n. ΚΠ 1913 Indianapolis Star 20 July 26/7 The modern girl can not understand that exquisite spirit which permeates ‘Little Women’, but they respond to the sex thrill of plays like ‘The Common Law’. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover i. 6 In the actual sex-thrill within the body, the sisters nearly succumbed to the strange male power. 2007 Daily Star (Nexis) 13 Sept. 26 [Men] found it the ultimate sex thrill during a night out when their girl suddenly announced: ‘I'm not wearing any [knickers] tonight.’ sex union n. ΚΠ 1871 S. S. Hennell Present Relig. (1873) II. i. 417 Individuality..depends..on relational influences..and especially on subjection to that primal one of Sex-union, round which all of the others are grouped. 1923 M. C. Stopes Contraception iii. 39 The type of woman who..has acquired the view that all sex union after the procreation of the desired number of children has been accomplished, is wrong. 1996 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 June x. 1 There is a chapter ‘Sexual Entitlement Therapy’, where impotency strikes all sex unions, except those based on love and equality. sex war n. ΚΠ 1905 D. Forster Sex Radicalism vi. 26 Among the worst effects of the sex war are the divisions it causes among women. 1969 M. Pugh Last Place Left vii. 45 She was a freedom fighter in the sex war. 2001 C. Coker Humane Warfare iv. 86 The ‘Nation of Islam’..was profoundly conservative on the issue of the sex war. It segregated women at its meetings. sex warfare n. ΚΠ 1896 B. Russell German Social Democracy 176 Mary Wollstonecraft, in her ‘Vindication of the Rights of Women’, sketched the problem as one of sex warfare, with a democratic rather than a socialistic solution. 1994 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 8 Mar. 26 Both women are black, so the tension grows out of class and sex warfare rather than race. C2. Forming adjectives. sex-abusing adj. ΚΠ 1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 415 Sin, that in old time Brought fire from heav'n, the sex-abusing crime. 1978 Amer. Jrnl. Orthopsychiatry 48 250 We have seen striking growth in passively sex-abusing women. 2006 Nation (Nexis) 6 Jan. 3 The Catholic Church..can no longer condone cover-ups to protect sex-abusing priests. † sex-alive adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 156 Now you've come sex-alive, and the great ranch dogs are all after you. † sex-angry adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo xiii. 294 You can reason with a sex-angry woman till you are black in the face. sex-conscious adj. ΚΠ 1899 ‘G. F. Monkshood’ Rudyard Kipling 124 Mrs. Mountstuart cannot shine till she is self-conscious and sex-conscious. 1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer ii. 30 But she's certainly a sex-conscious girl. It's in her voice, in the way she sits, the way she drinks. 2007 Financial Times (Nexis) 6 Feb. 11 The title of Jack Thorne's Fanny and Faggot leads you to expect something more intensely sex-conscious and homosexually orientated than you are given. sex-crazed adj. ΚΠ 1920 O. A. Hill Ethics ii. v. 276 Dr. Averling..lived as a husband with Eleanor Marx... When his love grew cold, she drank poison. Averling sex-crazed soon after died. 1954 R. P. Bissell High Water xx. 218 Well I'm reading this here story about a sex-crazed maniac. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 Apr. iva. 31/2 A sex-crazed media culture in which many feminists are adopting a[n]..approach that views pornography as expression, not exploitation. sex-emancipated adj. ΚΠ 1912 Buffalo (N.Y.) Evening Times 23 Aug. 9/2 You talk with a certain condescension, even with a kind of praise, of the sex-emancipated woman... Emancipated woman! Why, she is nothing but a monster! 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & Obscenity 27 The most high-flown sex-emancipated young people. 1940 S. Atlantic Q. Jan. 35 Popular triumph by glorifying the sex-emancipated woman was not for her [sc. Constance Woolson]; that theme and its exponents violently displeased her. sex-hungry adj. ΚΠ 1916 T. Dreiser Hoosier Holiday xliv. 364 Those who, sex hungry or wealth hungry or adventure hungry, have no part or parcel with morality. 2005 People (Nexis) 20 Mar. (Features section) 8 Thousands of sex-hungry married men and women are logging on in search of sleazy one-night stands with strangers. sex-mad adj. ΚΠ 1895 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 13 Jan. 11/4 It has been said that the modern school of French novelists is sex mad. 1943 E. M. Almedingen Frossia ii. 58 Look at all this promiscuity... They have all gone sex-mad. 2001 Sun 27 Jan. 6/1 A sex-mad monk who groped four women in the Confessional Room..was yesterday jailed for six years. sex-obsessed adj. ΚΠ 1909 P. White Love & Wise Men xxiii. 276 The first English philosopher to point out that art, literature, politics and human society generally are sex-obsessed. 1979 London Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 13/1 Civilised human beings are remarkable among animal species for being sex-obsessed. 2002 N.Y. Times 14 Apr. iv. 13/6 Rome doesn't care a fig about the hurt feelings of spoiled, sex-obsessed Americans. sex-related adj. ΚΠ 1909 C. P. Gilman in Papers & Proc. 3rd Ann. Meeting Amer. Sociol. Soc.,1908 3 16 We must consider it [sc. the family] first on its biological basis, as a sex-related group for the purpose of rearing young. 1977 Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 9- c/1 A high-ranking official of Planned Parenthood says television's standards on sex-related programming should be as much a public issue as its standards on televised violence. 2007 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 3 Mar. 4 b A..bill..which would require felons who get probation to provide a DNA sample if their crimes were violent or sex-related offenses. sex-segregated adj. ΚΠ 1923 E. B. Reuter Population Probl. xvi. 242 Studies have shown that the marriage rate of college graduates is less than the average of the population... This is true..of the graduates of the co-educational schools as well as those of the sex-segregated type. 2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex ii. 92 The house was sex-segregated like the houses in the patridha , the old country, men in the sala , women in the kitchen. sex-smelling adj. ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 512 The dark sexsmelling theatre unbridles vice. 1984 Callaloo 22 160 One-night trysts in cheap, sex-smelling motel rooms. sex-specific adj. ΚΠ 1921 Sci. Monthly June 495 By an age and sex specific death rate is meant the rate got by dividing the number of persons of a particular specified age and sex dying from a particular cause by the total number of persons living in the same population of the same age and sex. 1964 G. Pincus et al. Hormones IV. iii. 145 This inhibitory hormone from the brain is neither species nor sex specific. 1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 178 The disinclination to spend hour upon hour in the kitchen every night is not sex-specific. sex-starved adj. ΚΠ 1920 R. Van Saun Honey-comb 396 The sex-starved woman carries an offensive odor. 1978 M. Birmingham Sleep in Ditch 164 Their first guess is that I'm a sex-starved grass-widow, glimpsing seducers behind every door. 2003 J. R. Lennon Mailman i. vi. 317 Amateur Hotties: page upon page of..young-to-middle-aged women baring all for..the lonesome sex-starved jerkoffs of America. sex-transforming adj. ΚΠ 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. E^v Mad-making waters, sex trans-forming springs. 1922 Amer. Naturalist 56 199 If environment..plays such an important sex transforming rôle, why do male tadpoles never transform into females. 1993 Evolution 47 488 Sex-transforming mutations with temperature-dependant expression have been found in Drosophila..and nematodes. C3. † sex-abolitionist n. Obsolete a person who seeks to abolish sexual differences, or discrimination on the basis of sex.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1887 Jrnl. Educ. Jan. 29 If this examination craze is to prevail, and the sex-abolitionists are to have their way. sex act n. [compare earlier sexual act (compare quot. 1880 at sexual adj. 4a); compare also French acte sexuel (1883)] a sexual action or activity, especially the act of sexual intercourse. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > an act of swivec1560 fall1594 sleep1612 fuck1663 merry bout1780 stroke1785 screw?c1845 charver1846 fuckeea1866 sex act1888 frigc1890 grind1893 mount1896 poke1902 tumble1903 screwing1904 ride1905 roll1910 trick1926 lay1932 jump1934 bang1937 knock1937 shag1937 a roll in the hay1945 boff1956 naughty1959 root1961 shtup1964 home run1967 seeing to1970 legover1975 bonk1978 zatch1980 boink1989 1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 329 Forms like the parent plant are produced by means of so-called spores... They are..no more a product of the sex act than the buds used in grafting. 1894 E. Carpenter Homogenic Love 34 That any kind of love-union could exist in which the sex act might possibly not be the main object was an incredible proposition. 1958 Listener 21 Aug. 263/1 A consciousness of guilt in the sex act. 2003 E. Schlosser Reefer Madness iii. 114 ‘Hard-core’ now generally refers to porn in which the intercourse or oral sex is..unmistakably real. In soft-core porn these sex acts may be simulated. sex aid n. a device designed for sexual stimulation or to enhance sexual pleasure or performance; a sex toy; cf. marital aid n. at marital adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1964 Times (San Mateo, Calif.) 31 Mar. 8/2 The eternal search for youth has made elderly people the prime targets for the peddling of sex aids and potency pills. 1976 M. Schofield Promiscuity xv. 219 It may be possible to make use of sex aids like vibrators; and erotic books, pictures or films might be helpful in some situations. 2006 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 9 Mar. 25 Permission to sell explicit products, including R18-rated videos and sex aids. sex appeal n. character or quality which appeals to the sexual instinct; (originally, in a play, novel, etc.) sexuality or sexual relations as a theme; (later, in a person, esp. a woman) sexual attractiveness (also figurative); cf. S.A. n. at S n.¹ Initialisms 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > sex appeal sexual attraction?1798 sex appeal1903 it1904 oomph1937 bed-worthiness1959 1903 Lamp (N.Y.) Sept. 161/1 That indefinable something which, throughout the history of this sad old world, has given certain worthless men an irresistible power of sex appeal to women. 1910 Current Lit. July The play which contains no sex appeal is described by professional critics as being ‘undramatic’ or ‘not a play at all’. 1913 F. A. Kummer Song of Sixpence Pref. Did not the fact that the vast majority of women devote the bulk of their..energy to personal adornment argue that they themselves regard sex appeal as their most valuable asset? 1924 Amer. Mercury 2 318/1 An actress with sex appeal is four times out of five a more effective actress. 1953 Encounter Nov. 32/2 For the frustrated and starved, it [sc. Communism] has all the sex-appeal of a strong, monolithic creed. 2003 N.Y. Mag. 11 Aug. 38/2 This babe..shows you can be covered up and still ooze sex appeal. sex-appeal v. transitive to attract or appeal to (someone) sexually; (also) intransitive to be sexually attractive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > attract [verb (transitive)] > attract sexually sex-appeal1924 1924 G. R. Chester On Lot & Off 25 She'd sex appeal me all right! 1928 Sunday Disp. 9 Dec. 12/3 A person not being ‘sex-appealed’ is simply inconceivable to them. 2004 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 23 Mar. e4 Actor Landon Vaughn makes you see both why he sex-appealed to Evy. sex-appealing adj. having or exerting sex appeal. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [adjective] > sexually attractive nymphic1799 sexy1912 sex-appealing1923 hotcha1924 hot1926 ooh-la-la1929 bed-worthy1936 beddable1941 phat1963 smoking1989 kewl1990 smoking hot1994 bess2006 1923 G. L. Morrill Near Hell in Far East 256 How unlike our vulgar, sex-appealing jazzes that some consider social accomplishments. 1932 News Chron. 20 June 4/1 Both [stories] are glittering, glamorous, sex-appealing. 1994 Russ. Press Digest (Nexis) 4 Nov. 1 Provocative pictures of Grachev in the company of a sex-appealing pop-singer. sex attractant n. chiefly Zoology a volatile substance produced by an individual in order to attract others of the same species for the purpose of mating; a synthetic substance with the same property; a sexual pheromone; also attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > external influences > [noun] > pheromone gamone1942 sex attractant1952 Nassanoff pheromone1959 pheromone1959 bombykol1961 primer1963 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > scent-gland > sex attractant sex attractant1952 1952 Amer. Midland Naturalist 47 107 The sex attractant is produced chiefly by virgin females. 1964 Listener 27 Aug. 291/2 The study of sex-attractant odours in insects has shown that these may be so highly specific that a very slight change in their chemical structure may make them less effective or even quite ineffective. 1996 Amateur Gardening 25 May 14/1 I saw..an answer about controlling codling moths with a pheromone trap, based on attracting the male moths to a sticky board using a sex attractant. 2005 New Scientist (Nexis) 29 Jan. 17 A mystery chemical that young women deploy as a sex attractant pheromone seems to work for post-menopausal women too. sex-blind adj. blind to or unaware of sex or sexual differences; (now) spec. that does not discriminate between the sexes. ΚΠ 1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row v. 44 He was sex blind, a little celibate with eyes that saw nothing in woman save a creature anatomically different from man. 1967 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 29 799/1 Forcing those in decision-making posts to discard all they think, feel, and know about sex in favor of sex-blind policies. 2006 University Wire (Nexis) 4 May Even in those fields or workplaces alleged to be race- or sex-blind, white men consistently out-earn women and minorities. sexboat n. U.S. slang = sexpot n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > that which excites > sexually exciting person a bit (also piece) of all right1895 hot stuff1908 sex object1911 hot pants1938 sexpot1953 sex bomb1954 sexboat1955 1955 Los Angeles Times 8 May iv. 6/1 In the 20s Harriet was a ‘new’ woman—faintly Boehmian, faintly incredible... Now she is Gloria Grahame—a sex-boat and a lady. 1988 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 1 Apr. e1 Hutchence has the skinniest legs of any sex-boat, bo-hunk lead singer in the world. 2004 R. Kubey Creating Television viii. 324 She was the best home economist in the world, but in her mind, she was a devastating sexboat. sex bomb n. colloquial a person, esp. a woman, who is very sexually exciting or active; cf. sexpot n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > that which excites > sexually exciting person a bit (also piece) of all right1895 hot stuff1908 sex object1911 hot pants1938 sexpot1953 sex bomb1954 sexboat1955 1954 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 19 June 4/5 She has such a fiery disposition to go with her sensual beauty and well-distributed curves, that enthusiastic West Germans are calling her the ‘Yugoslav Sex Bomb’. 1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds iii. 42 Sex-bomb, Sonya Stelling might be. Oscar contender she was not. 2006 Brides Sept. 97/1 Remind him he's marrying a sex bomb..by giving him the sexiest strip show he's ever seen. sex call n. (a) Zoology a vocal call used for attracting a mate or initiating mating; (in extended use) any other signal having such a function; (b) a sexually explicit telephone call, spec. one made for the purpose of sexual gratification (cf. phone sex n. at phone n.² Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1901 Lancet 5 Jan. 50/2 Certain lizards of the South African veldt, the so-called ‘clucking sand lizards’ do, as their name suggests, utter a ‘cluck’, which in their case is probably a sex-call. 1927 New Internat. Encycl.: Suppl. II. 1498/1 This light in the firefly is used as a sex call. 1951 R. Rugh Frog iii. 41 Amplexus is achieved as the females reach the ponds where the males are emitting their sex calls. 1976 M. Wilding Scenic Drive 84 I've put a woman's name in the phone book so I get the sex calls. Then I can tape them. 1976 Family Health June 25/3 The problem has been to find a way to isolate and identify the chemical ‘sex call’ of each species. 1995 Mammalian Species No. 488. 5/1 Captive [civet] females often emit characteristic sex calls, to which the male responds with a contact call. 2007 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 14 July (Mag.) w14 Belle takes sex calls while watching TV and Adam lives more in his computer than the real world. sex cell n. Biology a reproductive cell, either male or female in function; a gamete (sperm or egg cell), or a cell which gives rise to gametes. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > reproductive cell sexual cell1860 oocyst1875 thelyblast1877 sex cell1889 1889 P. Geddes & J. A. Thomson Evol. Sex 91 Very commonly the sex-cells originate in the ectoderm and ripen there. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. i. 11 Sexual multiplication by means of special germ-cells or sex-cells is much more economical. 1999 Independent 27 May i. 9/8 Scientists believe the sex cells, or germ line, in the gonads monitor levels of reproduction and send out signals that cause the ageing of highly fertile worms. sex change n. a change of sex; esp. a change in a person's physical sexual characteristics brought about by surgery, hormone treatment, etc.; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > reassignment of sex or gender transexion1646 sex reversal1910 sex change1922 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > sexual organs > sex change sex change1922 1922 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 14 Sept. 11/3 Dr. Orton thinks that the sex change [in oysters] is due to changes in the environment. 1960 20th Century Mar. 258 Sex-change may well seem, as The Times said, ‘unprepossessing’ as a subject for comedy. 1970 Daily Tel. 21 Dec. 2/6 More people with transsexual problems are seeking National Health sex-change operations. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes x. 139/2 Many fishes go through a prematurational sex change, differentiating but not maturing first as females, with some individuals later changing to males. 2000 Ralph 7 July 66/2 I had a sex change 11 years ago, I've worked with transgender people for more than 10 years. sex character n. = sexual character n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 994 There are a few abnormal individuals of each sex, whose sex characters are not pronounced. 1948 C. D. Turner Gen. Endocrinol. viii. 263 The primary sex characters are the gonads. 1998 Isis 89 461 The female puberty-gland did not just leave the male sex characters alone: it actively inhibited them. sex characteristic n. = sexual character n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1890 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 17 103 The value of some distinguishing sex characteristic in the case of seedling Ailanthus trees..would be appreciated by all who are acquainted with these ornamental trees. 1951 A. Grollman Pharmacol. & Therapeutics xxvi. 581 The estrogenic hormones are responsible for certain secondary sex characteristics in the female, such as the plumage markings of some birds. 2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex i. 41 I possess all the secondary sex characteristics of a normal man except one: my inability to synthesize dihydrotestosterone has made me immune to baldness. sex chromatin n. Biology (originally) the material of the sex chromosomes; the part of the chromatin of a cell which acts as a sex determinant; (later) spec. the material comprising a small heterochromatic mass (the Barr body, believed to be an inactivated X chromosome), of which there is one in a normal (XX) female cell and in general one less than the number of X (or Z) chromosomes in a cell. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > chromatin chromatin1882 oxychromatin1894 basichromatin1902 trophochromatin1905 sex chromatin1909 heterochromatin1932 1909 G. N. Calkins Protozoöl. 257 A statement which, if true, gives..confirmation of the early hypothesis of Balfour and Minot that the nucleus of the primordial egg or sperm cell contains both kinds of sex chromatin, the opposite kind being eliminated by the reducing divisions of each sex. 1952 Graham & Barr in Anat. Rec. 112 709 The term ‘sex influenced chromatin’, or simply ‘sex chromatin’, will be used in the description to follow for the nuclear structure characterized by a size relation to sex. 1962 Lancet 27 Jan. 216/2 In all cases the sex-chromatin pattern was shown to be consistent with the morphological sex. 1994 D. Tulchinsky & A. B. Little Maternal–Fetal Endocrinol. (ed. 2) xv. 300/2 The inactive X chromosome is attached to the inner surface of the nuclear envelope as a heterochromatic body, also known as the Barr body or sex chromatin body. sex-chromosomal adj. Biology of or relating to the sex chromosomes. ΚΠ 1913 Jrnl. Exper. Zool. 15 593 The two white females..came from the union of the two-X egg with the no-X sperm of the vermillion pink male, and should be entirely maternal and entirely non-paternal in sex chromosomal composition, i.e., they should be exact counterparts..of their mother. 1994 A. Kolker & B. M. Burke Prenatal Testing iv. 48 Only a few counselors routinely mentioned sex chromosomal abnormalities. sex chromosome n. Biology each of the chromosomes (normally two in number) in a cell's chromosomal complement, the particular combination of which normally determines an individual's sex; contrasted with autosome n.In humans and other mammals, normal females have two X chromosomes, males one X and one Y. In birds and some other animals, males have two Z chromosomes, females one Z and one W. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > chromosome > types of chromosome chromoplastid1885 accessory chromosome1899 chromoplast1902 X1902 heterochromosome1904 idiochromosome1905 macrochromosome1905 allosome1906 autosome1906 monosome1906 sex chromosome1906 supernumerary1907 X chromosome1911 Y chromosome1911 univalent1912 euchromosome1914 W1917 monosome1921 tetrasome1921 trisome1921 heterosome1938 isochromosome1939 trisomic1939 metacentric1945 acrocentric1949 polycentric1953 Philadelphia chromosome1961 monocentric1979 1906 E. B. Wilson in Jrnl. Exper. Zool. 3 28 These chromosomes are the bearers of the male and female qualities (or the factors essential to the production of these qualities) respectively. They may also be designated (whenever it is desirable to avoid circumlocution) as sex-chromosomes. 1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 46 From all the facts, we can, I think, be sure that all the higher animals possess special X or sex-chromosomes, two in one sex, one in the other, by whose agency sex is determined. 1974 U. Goodenough & R. P. Levine Genetics x. 466 The sex of a fly is determined, in part, by the number of euchromatic sex chromosomes, called X chromosomes, possessed by an individual. 2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex iv. 411 The webbed-necked girl teens with Turner's syndrome, who had only one sex chromosome, a lonely X. sex comedy n. a play, film, or television programme which combines erotic and comic elements, or whose plot centres on romantic relationships or sexual encounters. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > type of programme dramedy1905 news film1912 sex comedy1915 television adaptation1935 action comedy1936 sportcast1939 teleshopper1949 telethon1949 special1952 television special1952 TV special1952 science-fictioner1953 spectacular1954 promo1955 sitcom1956 spec1959 spin-off1959 reality programming1962 teleroman1964 mockumentary1965 serialization1965 talk show1965 laugh-in1967 novela1968 reality show1968 breakfast television1971 spy series1975 reality television1978 reality TV1980 series1988 shockumentary1988 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > other types of comedy Old Comedy1529 New Comedy1542 comedy of errors?1595 romantic comedy1748 musical comedy1765 comédie larmoyante1773 sketch1789 serio-comedy1808 vaudeville1827 teacup-and-saucer comedy1842 satyr play1845 Restoration comedy1866 zarzuela1888 situation comedy1893 sex comedy1915 sitcom1956 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types romantic comedy1748 epic1785 pre-release1871 foreign film1899 frivol1903 dramedy1905 film loop1906 first run1910 detective film1911 colour film1912 news film1912 topical1912 cinemicrograph1913 scenic1913 sport1913 newsreel1914 serial1914 sex comedy1915 war picture1915 telefilm1919 comic1920 true crime1923 art house1925 quickie1926 turkey1927 two-reeler1928 smellie1929 disaster film1930 musical1930 feelie1931 sticky1934 action comedy1936 quota quickie1936 re-release1936 screwball comedy1937 telemovie1937 pickup1939 video film1939 actioner1940 space opera1941 telepic1944 biopic1947 kinescope1949 TV movie1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 deepie1953 misterioso1953 film noir1956 policier1956 psychodrama1956 free film1958 prequel1958 co-production1959 glossy1960 sexploiter1960 sci-fier1961 tie-in1962 chanchada1963 romcom1963 wuxia1963 chick flick1964 showreel1964 mockumentary1965 sword-and-sandal1965 schlockbuster1966 mondo1967 peplum1968 thriller1968 whydunit1968 schlocker1969 buddy-buddy movie1972 buddy-buddy film1974 buddy film1974 science-fictioner1974 screwball1974 buddy movie1975 slasher movie1975 swashbuckler1975 filmi1976 triptych1976 autobiopic1977 Britcom1977 kidflick1977 noir1977 bodice-ripper1979 chopsocky1981 date movie1983 kaiju eiga1984 screener1986 neo-noir1987 indie1990 bromance2001 hack-and-slash2002 mumblecore2005 dark fantasy2007 hack-and-slay2007 gorefest2012 kidult- 1915 Catal. Copyright Entries: Pt. 1, Group 2 (Libr. of Congr. Copyright Office) 12 235/1 Adamless (The) Eden; sex comedy in 3 acts, by C. Moore. 1970 Observer 31 May 38/5 A haphazardly contrived sex comedy played for more than its worth by a skilled cast. 2014 K. Feil in M. DeAngelis Reading Bromance vi. 167 Vulgarity..figured centrally in..1980s male-dominated ‘gross-out’ sex comedies. sex crime n. a crime involving sexual assault, or having a sexual motive; crime of this nature. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > offence involving sex sexual offence1840 sexual assault1883 sex crime1906 sex offence1910 1906 Physiol. Sex for Parents 68 In different countries sex crime is handled in various ways. 1908 T. Travis Young Malefactor 26 Manslaughter, murder, sex crimes, [etc.]. 1925 Amer. Mercury Feb. 196 Sex crimes, which are commonly regarded as a natural result of drug taking, actually never occur among addicts. 2000 N.Y. Times 6 Aug. i. 28/1 Since 1991, state health law has required emergency rooms to examine survivors of sex crimes with rape kits. sex criminal n. a person who commits a sex crime or crimes. ΚΠ 1914 San Antonio (Texas) Light 22 Mar. 42/4 As we have murderers among us, so we have these sex criminals, though not in anything like the same numbers. 1972 J. Symons Players & Game xv. 100 Inadequacy. That's the mark of sex criminals. 2001 C. Palahniuk Choke ii. 15 Prostitutes and sex criminals out on a three-hour release from their minimum-security jail. sex determinant n. Biology a factor (esp. a genetic factor) which determines an individual's sex. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > gene > types of gene sex determinant1902 sex determiner1909 inhibitor1911 multiple factor1912 modifier1915 autosomal dominant1919 autosomal recessive1919 scute1923 gene1925 suppressor1928 rate gene1932 dominigene1938 buffer1939 polygene1941 switch gene1942 mutator1943 oligogene1943 sickle cell gene1946 supergene1949 ob1950 obese1950 regulator1960 regulator gene1960 regulatory gene1960 enhancer1967 oncogene1969 virogene1969 hedgehog1980 1902 Biol. Bull. 3 73 If we accept the theory that chromatin is the bearer of hereditary qualities, there could be little doubt regarding the necessary chromosomic character of a sex determinant. 1926 R. S. Lull Org. Evol. x. 151 Among certain animals,..variation in nutrition is a sex determinant. 1995 Science 6 Oct. 113/2 The search for genetic sex determinants has involved several false starts. sex determination n. Biology the biological process by which an individual becomes male or female. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > sex determination sex determination1889 sex control1911 1889 P. Geddes & J. A. Thomson Evol. Sex iii. 49 The temperature of the time, not of birth but of sex determination, must of course be noted. 1909 R. H. Lock Variation, Heredity, & Evol. ix. 277 It is not necessarily to be supposed that the above description of the facts of sex-determination will hold good for every kind of organism. 1936 S. J. Holmes Human Genetics & its Social Import iv. 44 Sex determination would..appear to be settled at the time of fertilization, when the individual receives his or her allotment of chromosomes. 1977 Dædalus Fall 137 Primitive wasps..evolved the sex determination mechanism of haplodiploidy, whereby unfertilized eggs yield males and fertilized eggs yield females. 2005 New Scientist 15 Jan. 42/3 The fact that these insects have evolved sociality perhaps a dozen times owes much to their curious method of sex determination. sex determiner n. Biology a gene which determines the sex of the individual bearing it. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > gene > types of gene sex determinant1902 sex determiner1909 inhibitor1911 multiple factor1912 modifier1915 autosomal dominant1919 autosomal recessive1919 scute1923 gene1925 suppressor1928 rate gene1932 dominigene1938 buffer1939 polygene1941 switch gene1942 mutator1943 oligogene1943 sickle cell gene1946 supergene1949 ob1950 obese1950 regulator1960 regulator gene1960 regulatory gene1960 enhancer1967 oncogene1969 virogene1969 hedgehog1980 1909 Science 5 Mar. 397/2 Bateson completes the explanation by offering the further suggestion that there is no disjunction of the sex-characters in spermatogenesis because the male does not carry the female sex-determiner at all. 1960 E. J. Gardner Princ. Genetics vii. 123/2 When the parallelism was discovered between the chromosome cycle and gene behaviour it was generally assumed that genes other than sex determiners were also located in the sex chromosomes. 2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory v. 460 In these developmental studies, Goldschmidt recognized normal sexuality as a quantitative phenomenon produced by a balance of male and female sex determiners. sex-determining adj. Biology determining an individual's sex. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [adjective] > sex determination sex-determining1896 1896 Amer. Naturalist 30 269 In frogs, butterflies, etc. the sex determining power of the soma has been experimentally demonstrated. 1901 P. Geddes & J. A. Thomson Evol. Sex (ed. 2) 51 In regard to rotifers (Hydatina), Maupas maintains that temperature is the sex-determining factor. 1966 Lancet 24 Dec. 1397/1 This discrepancy between mammals and birds..might reflect different evolutionary origins of chromosomal sex-determining mechanisms in the two classes. 1998 Science 25 Sept. 1990/2 Generally, in mammals, maleness is determined by the presence of the Y-linked gene Sex-determining region Y (Sry). sex-discriminating adj. that discriminates or differentiates the sex of something; (also) that discriminates against a person (typically a woman) on grounds of sex. ΚΠ 1955 Evolution 9 219/2 If it [sc. a snake] was..another coral snake, the proper sex discriminating releasers would probably be elicited and courtship or aggressive behavior..would result. 1964 C. Barber Ling. Change Present-day Eng. iv. 105 The sex-discriminating word used to indicate that the member of some profession or the holder of some office is a woman. 1976 Listener 4 Mar. 264/3 I do not care if it is unfair, or sex-discriminating, for a woman to get an old age pension five years before a man. 2003 University Wire (Nexis) 5 Nov. Wal-Mart is... a sex-discriminating, union-busting..mega-giant that will do anything to maintain superiority over its employees. sex discrimination n. discrimination or differentiation on grounds of sex; spec. = sexual discrimination n. (b) at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex sexism1866 sex discrimination1885 male chauvinism1935 phallocentricity1970 gender discrimination1973 phallocentrism1975 phallocracy1977 male-bashing1986 1885 Daily Nebraska State Jrnl. 11 Dec. 3/5 One [of the buildings] will be used for a male and the other for a female college. The plan is so broad as to shut out sex discrimination. 1916 Campaign Text-bk. (National Woman's Party) 62 Enfranchised women in the United States regard the removal of sex discrimination from our national constitution as a political need of primary importance. 1965 Financial Times 24 Nov. 3/3 New guideline interpretations on sex discrimination have just been issued by the Commission... So far the Commission has received over 400 complaints of sex discrimination. 2000 N.Y. Times 5 May b10/6 A black job-seeker..charged that race and sex discrimination barred her from being hired as a driver. sex-discriminatory adj. that discriminates against a person or group (esp. women) on grounds of sex. ΚΠ 1929 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 143 267/1 They are some of the minorities who, through superior skill or opportunity, have found their way to places seldom filled by women, and who therefore find sex-discriminatory laws endangering their economic security. 2004 Jrnl. Social Issues (Nexis) 22 Dec. 755 When people conceive of women as nice and men as competent, they are less likely to notice and dismantle sex discriminatory practices than when they conceive of women and men as equally nice and equally competent. sex doll n. (a) = sex kitten n.; (b) a sex toy resembling a woman's body in shape, size, and appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > that which excites > sexually exciting person > specifically female > young woman who asserts sexual attractiveness sex doll1934 sex kitten1958 1934 W. Deeping Seven Men came Back xxii. 340 She would go and meet Sherring as the complete dowd,..in stockings that were most unprovocative. Figging up the silly sex-doll because a mere man was expected! Just like some little wench. 1962 Lima (Ohio) News 20 Mar. 10/6 Janet, who became a sex doll in ‘The Day the Earth Caught Fire’. 1967 Film Q. Summer 61/2 Anna permits Stephen to make love to her, submitting limply like a rubber sex doll. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Mar. b31/4 After..coming into possession of a life-size, molded plastic sex doll with the body of a 20-year-old woman, he develops an erotic obsession with the toy. sex drive n. the urge to seek satisfaction of sexual needs. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > sex drive or instinct sex impulse1883 sex instinct1883 libido1909 sex drive1916 sex urge1920 1916 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 21 June 8/6 That so much trouble and evil come to people through the sex drive is due to the fact that it is that emotion which most influences character. 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 54 There may be a period..when the sex-drive is latent. 2002 Daily Tel. 5 July 20/7 A field trial involving muira puama found that about two out of three women with self-reported loss of sex drive noticed an improvement in intensity of sexual desire. sex-free adj. (a) having a liberal attitude towards sex (now rare); (b) not involving sex. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [adjective] > relating to platonic or non-sexual love Platonical1612 Platonic1631 unlibidinous1667 unamorous1668 unsensual1850 asexual1894 supersexual1895 sex-free1929 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [adjective] > specific towards sex sex-free1929 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & Obscenity 24 But the bohemian is ‘sex free’. 1960 Encounter Sept. 72/1 Gerda is one of those sex-free affairs between tormented men and life-accepting women. 2006 Sunday Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. (Style section) 47 Sex is a huge part of intimacy... There are couples who say they enjoy successful sex-free relationships, but they are rare. sex gene n. Biology a gene responsible for determining sex. ΚΠ 1911 Amer. Naturalist 45 69 These chromosomes undoubtedly contain many other factors than those of sex whose presence might obscure size relations even when such exist in the sex genes. 1951 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 16 173/2 Similarly in Drosophila, the sex gene is diffuse, scattered throughout the active portion of the X [chromosome]. 2003 S. Greenfield Tomorrow's People (2004) v. 129 Hundreds of diseases are linked in this way to the sex genes, and other genes relating to diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, are found on other chromosomes. sex gland n. Biology (usually in plural) a glandular organ associated with reproductive functions; esp. a gonad considered in terms of its production of sex hormones. ΚΠ 1877 A. Wilson Zoology v. 81 In Anodon..the sex-gland, as the reproductive organ is named, is situated on the foot-mass, and grows very large in the winter and spring. 1916 Arch. Internal Med. 17 887 We may consider boys in the period of prepubescence as individuals..as yet scarcely influenced by the internal secretions of the sex glands. 1954 I. Asimov Chemicals of Life ix. 126 The gonads..are sometimes called the sex glands, because the hormones they produce are responsible for the changes that take place when a boy or girl grows up to become a man or woman. 2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts iv. 95 The thyroid, pancreas, sex glands and the adrenals all became recognized as endocrine glands, essential regulators of health. sex god n. (a) Mythology a god associated with or ruling over sex or procreation; (b) a man who is exceptionally sexually attractive or accomplished. ΚΠ 1899 K. R. Budde Relig. of Israel to Exile Contents p. x Yahweh was the god of the covenant of the tribes—along with him in Israel were household gods, sex gods, tribal gods. 1969 Music Educators Jrnl. 56 46/3 The popular arts portray endless variations of the playboy, the jet set, the beautiful people, the sex gods and goddesses. 1999 S. O'Hara Rarely Pure & never Simple 14 Perpetuating the popular notion of Italian men as nothing but sex gods. 2007 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 17 Apr. 6 A man claiming to be the ancient Egyptian sex god Min. sex goddess n. (a) Mythology a goddess associated with or ruling over sex or procreation; (b) a woman who is exceptionally sexually attractive or is regarded as a sex symbol. ΚΠ 1933 G. MacMunn Underworld of India xi. 204 This is a widow story.., and through it all runs the fanatical influence of a sex goddess. 1959 Washington Post 4 July b9/7 She slithered admirably, giving the criminal the impression—apparently—that she is some kind of sex goddess. 2003 Marie Claire Dec. 345/2 Sex goddess Brigitte Bardot wore nude lipstick. 2006 D. L. Paxson Essent. Ásatrú ii. 89 Freyja is much more than a sex goddess. sex hormone n. Biology any of the (natural or synthetic) hormones that affect sexual development or behaviour, esp. those produced by the gonads. ΚΠ 1915 New Phytologist 14 142 The author..suggests that this [inconstancy of secondary sex characters] may be due to the much more restricted action of sex hormones among plants. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1328 Among the seminiferous tubules of the testes there are some interstitial cells which produce a special sex-hormone. 1965 New Scientist 22 Apr. 218/3 The materials contained in the various forms of The Pill are synthetic sex hormones. 2002 Daily Tel. 28 Mar. 9/7 Sex hormone pollution is causing female birds..to sing along with their male counterparts. sex hygiene n. the set of behaviours intended to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted disease; (also more widely) sex education. ΚΠ 1899 S. H. Rowe Physical Nature Child xii. 131 Clark University..and Stanford University..have of late entered on a campaign for the study of sex and of sex hygiene. 1934 E. R. Mowrer in E. R. Groves & L. M. Brooks Readings in Family xiii. 283 A program of sex hygiene..will teach individuals what to expect in sex relations in such a way as to raise these contacts from the realm of the release of physiological tensions to that of a mutually satisfying experience. 1980 M. T. Connelly Response to Prostitution in Progressive Era iv. 78 The phrase ‘sex-hygiene education’ is somewhat misleading, because what was advocated was not an open knowledge of sexuality and sexual behavior but rather an enlightened indoctrination in proper and safe sex roles. 2005 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 16 Feb. 4 They campaigned against spitting on streetcars and for sex-hygiene classes in high schools. sex impulse n. the impulse, or an impulse, towards satisfaction of sexual needs. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > sex drive or instinct sex impulse1883 sex instinct1883 libido1909 sex drive1916 sex urge1920 1883 S. S. Hennell Present Relig. (1887) II. ii. i. 349 The sex-impulse that is at [the] root of all love. 1912 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 23 134 The sex impulses find no outlet before puberty. 2006 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Feb. (Features section) 24 The arrival of the sex impulse—alarming, exciting, excruciating—had been a key moment in my school years. sex industry n. the commercial trade in sex and sexually stimulating materials, including prostitution, pornography, etc.; cf. sex worker n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > [noun] > types of industry generally rural industry1735 heavies1900 sunset1906 cottage industry1911 light industry1916 heavy industry1932 resource industry1938 nuclear industry1954 growth industry1957 space industry1957 knowledge industry1959 sex industry1965 sunrise1972 smokestack industry1979 Tayacian1979 sausage fest1995 1965 N.Y. Times 20 Jan. 15 (advt.) Here's a no-holds-barred attack on the U.S. sex industry, the full, shocking story of..the big business boom in filth. 1978 Washington Post 8 Jan. a16/3 For example, the District of Columbia is known as a ‘fast town’ tolerant of the sex industry, whereas Norfolk supposedly is conservative and open only to soft-core pornography. 1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. Europe: Rough Guide (ed. 3) II. ix. 383 Nowadays this quarter is ruled by the sex industry, with its nerve centre on the notorious Reeperbahn. sex-influenced adj. chiefly Biology (esp. of a gene) affected in its properties or expression by the sex of the individual. ΚΠ 1926 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 53 207 There are sex-limited or sex-influenced factors in both allosomes and autosomes. 1951 Jrnl. Nat. Cancer Inst. 12 244 During accelerated synthesis of Nissl material the sex-influenced chromatin moves from its usual position, next to the nucleolus, toward the nuclear membrane. 2007 Northern Miner (Austral.) (Nexis) 16 Jan. 9 Because of the complex pattern of inheritance and the sex-influenced nature of the genes, DNA markers are needed to help integrate polled genes into cattle breeding populations. sex instinct n. [compare French instinct sexuel (1835)] the behaviour and feelings associated with sexual reproduction considered as an instinct for the survival of the species; (also) = sex impulse n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > sex drive or instinct sex impulse1883 sex instinct1883 libido1909 sex drive1916 sex urge1920 1883 Amer. Naturalist 17 911 Sex instinct could not have existed prior to the origin of the male sex. 1898 C. P. Stetson Women & Econ. iii. 56 What business has a little girl with the instincts of maternity?.. They are sex-instincts, and should not appear till the period of adolescence. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers ix The sex instinct that Miriam had over-refined for so long now grew particularly strong. 1931 Times 3 Aug. 13/3 We talked about a sex instinct, but it was very blunt. 1976 A. Montagu Nature of Human Aggression (1978) iv. 64 Everyone ‘knows’ from his or her own experience that there is such a thing as a sex instinct. 1996 Jrnl. Social & Evolutionary Syst. 19 97 Freud reduced everything to the omnipresent and omnipotent role of the sex instinct: Eros is the sex instinct and love is Eros. sex interest n. (a) interest in or concern with sex or sexual relationships; (b) this as a theme in a story, film, etc.; (also) an actor or character who arouses sexual desire or interest (cf. love interest n. at love n.¹ Compounds 6). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual relationship > [noun] > interest in or concern with sex interest1885 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot > subject or theme > types of love interest1778 subtext1862 sex interest1911 through line1936 1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 821 It is not divorce laws which are to be feared, but something which lies deeper; that is the weakening of the metaphysical sex interest. 1911 Maclean's Apr. 139/2 There is scarcely any ‘sex interest’ in it at all. 1940 ‘G. Orwell’ in Horizon Mar. 189 Both of these papers admit a certain amount of sex-interest into their stories. 1975 P. Kronhausen & E. Kronhausen Sex People xvi. 200 The question of whether..those who have to deal professionally with sexuality in one form or another..have to reckon with a loss of sex interest as a possible ‘professional hazard’. 2003 G. Burn North of Eng. Home Service (2004) iv. 153 Diana Dors, who was the sex interest in It's a Grand Life. sex intergrade n. chiefly Biology an individual in which both male and female characteristics are present; an intersexual individual. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > state or condition of having characteristics of both sexes hermaphroditism1808 androgynism1823 hermaphrodism1828 androgynity1842 bisexuality1842 androgyny1852 bisexualism1865 pseudohermaphroditism1881 asexuality1886 virilism1896 bi-gender1912 intersexuality1916 sex intergrade1916 relative sexuality1926 ambisexuality1938 monoecy1949 testicular feminization (or feminizing)1953 1916 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2 578 (title) Sex intergrades in a species of crustacea. 1924 J. A. Thomson Sci. Old & New xxi. 114 The occurrence of sex-intergrades, such as very masculine females, is well known among pigeons. 1962 Lancet 27 Jan. 216/2 The hypothesis, advanced by Lang, that some male homosexuals are sex intergrades—i.e., morphologically male but genotypically female. 2006 Africa News (Nexis) 29 Jan. At times the chromosomes or the hormones become unbalanced and various degrees of sex intergrades result. sex killer n. a murderer who sexually assaults his or her victim(s). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin > types of assassin1340 Old Man of the Mountain1579 fedai1723 thug1810 nasty man1863 Jack the Ripper1888 ripper1909 trunk murderer1925 sex killer1935 mass-murderer1943 serial murderer1947 psycho-killer1949 serial killer1967 spree killer1983 1935 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos Tribune 27 June 1/2 Keep close watch on sex killer. 1959 M. Gilbert Blood & Judgement ii. 26 You'd be surprised..how many sex-killers turn out to be their mothers' favourite sons. 2002 Express (Nexis) 26 June 8 A sex killer was being hunted last night after a young woman was found semi-naked with her throat cut on a golf course. sex kitten n. colloquial a young woman who asserts or exploits her sexual attractiveness. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > that which excites > sexually exciting person > specifically female > young woman who asserts sexual attractiveness sex doll1934 sex kitten1958 1958 Daily Sketch 2 June 11/4 Clever film men have moulded her sex-kitten type. 1966 Guardian 7 Jan. 9/2 Brigitte Bardot..the original sex kitten with the French charm. 2002 Loaded July (Encycl. Eroticus Suppl.) 18/1 Kylie. Has managed to morph from the cute girl next door to sex kitten extraordinaire. sex-kittenish adj. like a sex kitten, characteristic of or resembling a sex kitten. ΚΠ 1963 J. Fowles Collector ii. 166 Antoinette was almost parodying herself, she was so sex-kittenish. 1995 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 18 May f13 The clothes are short, tight, sex-kittenish: crop-tops, slogan T-shirts, little skirts. 2003 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 17 Jan. 53 She's a little girl one minute, a sex-kittenish woman the next. sex life n. the aspect or part of life that involves sex; (now) spec. a person's sexual activity and relationships considered as a whole. ΚΠ 1873 J. P. Lacroix tr. A. Wuttke Christian Ethics II. i. 75 The greater dependence on..the changes of the seasons in the entire female sex-life [Ger. Geschlechtsleben]. 1919 Jrnl. Social Hygiene 5 590 A man's sex life is not merely a matter of the individual. 1936 ‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Fools xx. 181 I get no kick out of the sex-life of the white-tailed baboon. 1976 Vogue 15 Mar. 13/2 He is being reviled for apparently having absolutely no sex life, none at all. 2003 ‘Zane’ Nervous ix. 55 What really pissed me off was Jon talking about my sex life. Something she didn't know jack shit about. sex machine n. (originally) a person, typically a woman, who performs a sexual role or function mechanically and without feeling; (later usually) a person characterized as vigorous, unremitting, and insatiable in his or her pursuit and performance of sex. ΚΠ 1922 M. E. Cousins Awakening of Asian Womanhood vii. 95 These things turn the women of the household often into drudges, overworked cooks, and mere sex-machines. 1935 H. Edib Clown & his Daughter viii. 43 Now she wants to burden me with another sex-machine. 1970 J. Brown (song) in Sex Machine (MS transcript) Get up (I feel like being a) Sex Machine. 2002 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 15 Dec. 15 Her tales of their kinky lovemaking helped fuel the Nicholson legend... ‘When I knew him he was absolutely the sex machine,’ she said. sex morality n. = sexual morality n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1883 S. S. Hennell Present Relig. (1887) II. ii. 335 In the now-supposed general Design of things, Christianity was the initiatory stage of Sex-morality. 1958 Listener 4 Dec. 933/2 Queen Victoria..instituted a new reign of sex-morality. 2001 S. T. Joshi Dreamer & Visionary ix. 150 Among his published works was at least one..treatise on sex morality. sex mosaic n. Biology an individual having some cells that are genetically of one sex and the rest of the other sex. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > state or condition of having characteristics of both sexes > person or animal scratc1000 androgyneOE hermaphroditec1400 scarth?a1513 man-woman1587 she-mana1613 epicene1641 will-jill1677 morphoditea1726 bisexual1879 pseudohermaphrodite1881 harumfrodite1896 sex mosaic1903 intersex1916 intersexual1917 1903 W. E. Castle in Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Harvard 40 197 Unilateral and mixed hermaphrodites are an exceptional form of sex-mosaic. 1955 Japanese Jrnl. Zool. 11 350 The 1st gynandromorph is a simple bilateral sex mosaic showing yellow Ww gene in the left male wings and white Ww gene in the right female wings. 2002 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 13232/2 The use of sex mosaics to define centers and circuits responsible for courtship behavior is somewhat limited. sex-negative adj. that has or promotes a conservative, repressive, or intolerant attitude towards sex and sexuality; anti-sex (cf. sex-positive adj.). ΚΠ 1931 in H. Steiner Sexualnot und Sexualreform 86 The sexual misery of the working class is caused by..the sex-negative education [Ger. sexualverneinenden Erziehung]..of children during puberty. 1984 Family Planning Perspectives 16 108/1 Sex-negative values..prevent people from talking openly about sex, and thinking of sex as something to be enjoyed for its own sake. 2004 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 3 Dec. b8 By endorsing abstinence, one is embracing a sex-negative ideology that is a euphemism for sexual repression. sex-neutral adj. not differentiated on the basis of sex; suitable for both males and females; (also) not biased towards either sex. ΚΠ 1957 Amer. Anthropologist 59 238 Tagalogs employ sex-neutral kinship terms much more than we do. The following kinship words of this nature are in general use: asawa, spouse; apo, grandchild; [etc.]. 1989 M. Moffatt Coming of Age in New Jersey v. 182 Daily informal dress..was relatively sex-neutral, a loosely unisex style. 2002 Times of India (Nexis) 11 Mar. The test had proved to be ‘sex neutral’,..both men and women performed equally well in it. sex object n. a person towards whom or thing towards which sexual impulse or desire is directed; (now esp.) a person regarded by another only as an object of sexual interest. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > that which excites > sexually exciting person a bit (also piece) of all right1895 hot stuff1908 sex object1911 hot pants1938 sexpot1953 sex bomb1954 sexboat1955 1911 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 22 423 Instead of sublimating the sex impulse, he [sc. Leonardo da Vinci] directed it towards the physical Jesus in toto. It was simply the substitution of one sex object for another. 1963 B. Friedan Feminine Mystique xi. 266 For the woman who lives according to the feminine mystique, there is no road to achievement, or status, or identity, except the sexual one: the achievement of sexual conquest, status as a desirable sex object, identity as a sexually successful wife and mother. 1980 G. Greene Dr. Fischer ix. 59 Deane is not an actor: he is a sex object. Teenage girls worship him. 2000 A. Dutney in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 134/2 The encyclical identifies dangers in the use of ‘artificial birth control’ including the encouragement of promiscuity, the reduction of women to sex objects, [etc.]. sex offender n. originally U.S. a person who commits an illicit action or (now esp.) a criminal offence involving sex. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > offence involving sex > one guilty of sexual offender1893 sex offender1911 beast1983 1911 M. Cox Spiritual Curiosities 41 A memory left..by Puritan ancestry with its pillories and scarlet letters for sex offenders. 1916 C. J. Weidensall Mentality Criminal Woman App. 294 She then became a domestic and after a year was a sex offender for the first time... Domestic on a farm. Was a continuous sex offender with one of the farm hands. 1939 Columbia Law Rev. Mar. 535 Prior to the enactment of this statute in Illinois, a criminal sex offender received no special treatment. 2005 A. Masters Stuart xxiii. 254 His main topic of conversation about prison is his hatred of sex offenders. sex offence n. originally U.S. an offence (originally a social offence, now usually a criminal offence) involving sex or a sexual act. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > offence involving sex sexual offence1840 sexual assault1883 sex crime1906 sex offence1910 1910 A. Wilson Unfinished Man vi. 111 These cruel, cunning sex offences [sc. seduction of young girls, infidelity, etc.] and their far-reaching effects. 1911 J. London Let. 8 Jan. (1966) 330 You are suffering from what you deem a sex-offence. 1977 J. Thomson Case Closed vii. 85 The offences..included fraud, burglary,..assault, sex offences of various sorts. 2007 Guardian 13 Nov. 30/4 In half of the [reported rape]..cases involving alcohol..the suspects had not been investigated, despite having a history of sex offences. sex organ n. (usually in plural) a reproductive organ; = sexual organ at sexual adj. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun] shapea1000 shameOE i-cundeOE memberc1300 privy memberc1325 kindc1330 privitiesc1375 harness1382 shameful parts1382 genitoriesa1387 partc1390 tailc1390 genitalsa1393 thingc1405 genitalc1450 privy parts1533 secret1535 loin?1541 genitures1548 filthy parts1553 shamefulness1561 ware1561 meatc1564 natural places1569 secret members1577 lady ware1592 natural parts1601 lady's ware1608 gear1611 private parts1623 groin1631 pudendums1634 natural1650 privacies1656 sex1664 secrecyc1675 nudities1677 affair1749 sexual parts1753 person1824 sex organ1847 privates1940 naughty bits1972 1847 A. Tulk tr. L. Oken Elements Physiophilos. 533 Their sexual parts [Ger. Geschlechtstheile]..do not open posteriorly, but far forwards on the ventral side of the body, this being the case with even the male sex-organs [Ger. selbst die männlichen]. 1978 Times 15 Mar. 6/3 Old symbols like mutilation of sex organs..are passé. 2002 New Yorker 16 Dec. 60/1 There are probably more euphemisms for vodka than for anything other than the male sex organ. sex pest n. colloquial (chiefly British) a sex offender; a person who sexually harasses another. ΚΠ 1985 Times 7 Aug. 5/1 Sex pest's one-way ticket back. A convicted sex offender, sent by a Californian judge..to Florida,..is to be returned to where he came from. 1992 Independent 6 Jan. 5/4 Women are frightened to complain about sex pests because of the attitude of employers, researchers said. 2005 Cairns (Queensland) Post (Nexis) 12 Apr. 9 A serial sex pest who tormented Cairns women and girls over a two-year period was jailed..yesterday. sex play n. (a) a drama about sex, or having sexual content; (b) play having a sexual nature, spec. sexual activity that does not involve intercourse. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play king play1469 king game1504 historya1509 chronicle history1600 monology1608 horseplaya1627 piscatory1631 stock play1708 petite pièce1712 mimic1724 ballad opera1730 ballad farce1735 benefit-play1740 potboiler1783 monodrama1793 extravaganza1797 theo-drama1801 monodrame1803 proverb1803 stock piece1804 bespeak1807 ticket-night1812 dramaticle1813 monopolylogue1819 pièce d'occasion1830 interlude1831 mimea1834 costume piece1834 mummers' play1849 history play1850 gag-piece1860 music drama1874 well-made1881 playlet1884 two-decker1884 slum1885 kinderspiel1886 thrill1886 knockabout1887 two-hander1888 front-piece1889 thriller1889 shadow-play1890 mime play1894 problem play1894 one-acter1895 sex play1899 chronicle drama1902 thesis-play1902 star vehicle1904 folk-play1905 radio play1908 tab1915 spy play1919 one-act1920 pièce à thèse1923 dance-drama1924 a mess of plottage1926 turkey1927 weepie1928 musical1930 cliffhanger1931 mime drama1931 triangle drama1931 weeper1934 spine-chiller1940 starrer1941 scorcher1942 teleplay1947 straw-hatter1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 tab show1951 conversation piece1952 psychodrama1956 whydunit1968 mystery play1975 State of the Nation1980 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] playOE loveOE toucha1400 chamber workc1450 venery1497 bed-glee1582 bed-game1596 fiddling1622 twatting1893 sexual relations1897 fun time1905 massage1906 sex play1922 actionc1930 hanky-panky1939 making-out1957 lumber1966 1899 Naugatuck (Connecticut) Daily News 14 Mar. 3/2 This play, which has been termed the great sex play, made a tremendous sensation when it was first produced on the London stage. 1922 U. Sinclair Bk. of Life II. xxxiii. 34 Their games and dances were sex play, and so also, in great part, was their religion. 1945 W. C. Kvaraceus Juvenile Delinquency & School ix. 94 The very early sex play indulged in by the ‘rebel’ and his sister, forced to share a bed until the beginnings of adolescence. 1998 Agence France Presse (Nexis) 19 June Arthur Schnitzler's classic highly-charged sex play ‘La Ronde’. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 15 June 183/1 Masturbation toys..might add a new sheen to cockcentric sex play. sex-positive adj. that has or promotes a tolerant, progressive, or candid attitude towards sex and sexuality; pro-sex (cf. sex-negative adj.). ΚΠ 1953 W. Reich Biogr. Material II. iv. 81 With the change of the basic adjustment from sex-negative to sex-positive, naturally not very much was altered in the character structure. 1997 G. S. Rubin in M. P. Levine et al. In Changing Times v. 113 The safe-sex campaigns were a sex-positive response to the illness. 2002 Isis 93 476/2 The gradual shift to sex-positive views of masturbation in the twentieth century. sexpot n. colloquial a sexually attractive, exciting, or active person, esp. a woman.Occasionally (quot. 1961): a person who is sex-obsessed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > that which excites > sexually exciting person a bit (also piece) of all right1895 hot stuff1908 sex object1911 hot pants1938 sexpot1953 sex bomb1954 sexboat1955 1953 Winona (Minnesota) Republican-Herald 14 Sept. 4/2 After talking about her next picture, ‘Mogambo’, in which she is a real sexpot, I happened to mention her herculean husband. 1961 Harper's Bazaar May 57/2 Ovid..the dirty old sexpot. 1975 New Yorker 5 May 115/1 Graham Chapman, John Cleese..with Connie Booth and Carol Cleveland as their sexpot aides. 2002 ‘Mistress Chloe’ Dominatrix xiii. 199 The place was full of tarty sexpots hired to attract punters to the various exhibits. sex ratio n. the ratio of male to female individuals in a population. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > ratio sex ratio1886 1886 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 49 474 There is therefore some, but not much, evidence of an increase in Hertfordshire of the sex-ratio during the twenty-one years. 1913 T. H. Morgan Heredity & Sex 221 A curious sex ratio appeared in one race of fruit flies. Some of the females persisted in producing twice as many females as males. 1974 J. Burnett Useful Toil i. 48 Because of the unequal sex ratio one in three [Victorian] women were ‘doomed’ to spinsterhood. 2003 Daily Tel. 7 Mar. 19/5 The falling sex ratio across Punjab prompted the Akal Takht, Sikhism's supreme religious and temporal seat, to issue an edict last year banning female foeticide. sex relation n. the relation between the sexes, or an instance of this; spec. (usually in plural) = sexual relations n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual relationship > [noun] ménagea1393 sex relation1871 sex relationship1873 the tender trap1954 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse ymonec950 moneOE meanc1175 manredc1275 swivinga1300 couplec1320 companyc1330 fellowred1340 the service of Venusc1350 miskissinga1387 fellowshipc1390 meddlinga1398 carnal knowinga1400 flesha1400 knowledgea1400 knowledginga1400 japec1400 commoning?c1425 commixtionc1429 itc1440 communicationc1450 couplingc1475 mellingc1480 carnality1483 copulation1483 mixturea1500 Venus act?1507 Venus exercise?1507 Venus play?1507 Venus work?1507 conversation?c1510 flesh-company1522 act?1532 carnal knowledge1532 occupying?1544 congression1546 soil1555 conjunction1567 fucking1568 rem in re1568 commixture1573 coiture1574 shaking of the sheets?1577 cohabitation1579 bedding1589 congress1589 union1598 embrace1599 making-outa1601 rutting1600 noddy1602 poop-noddy1606 conversinga1610 carnal confederacy1610 wapping1610 businessa1612 coition1615 doinga1616 amation1623 commerce1624 hot cocklesa1627 other thing1628 buck1632 act of love1638 commistion1658 subagitation1658 cuntc1664 coit1671 intimacy1676 the last favour1676 quiffing1686 old hat1697 correspondence1698 frigging1708 Moll Peatley1711 coitus1713 sexual intercourse1753 shagging1772 connection1791 intercourse1803 interunion1822 greens1846 tail1846 copula1864 poking1864 fuckeea1866 sex relation1871 wantonizing1884 belly-flopping1893 twatting1893 jelly roll1895 mattress-jig1896 sex1900 screwing1904 jazz1918 zig-zig1918 other1922 booty1926 pigmeat1926 jazzing1927 poontang1927 relations1927 whoopee1928 nookie1930 hump1931 jig-a-jig1932 homework1933 quickie1933 nasty1934 jig-jig1935 crumpet1936 pussy1937 Sir Berkeley1937 pom-pom1945 poon1947 charvering1954 mollocking1959 leg1967 rumpy-pumpy1968 shafting1971 home plate1972 pata-pata1977 bonking1985 legover1985 knobbing1986 rumpo1986 fanny1993 1871 S. S. Hennell Present Relig. (1873) II. i. 321 His mind appears notably at conflict with itself as to the nature of the Sex-relation. 1880 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican 14 Aug. 4/4 If the state should listen to the petitions of those who ask that sex relations be exemplified from control, the experience [etc.]. 1911 O. Schreiner Let. in R. First & A. Scott Olive Schreiner (1980) vii. 291 [She] thinks it's wrong for people, even if married, to have sex relations with each other except just when they want to make a child. 1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male xxi. 613 The behavior pattern of the animal,..its position relative to the other animal in the sex relation. 2007 CNN (Nexis) 10 Aug. (Larry King Live) So then you're like a lesbian... I identify as lesbian, yes, absolutely... So your sex relations would be with a woman... Yes. sex relationship n. the relationship between the sexes, esp. as involving sexual intercourse. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual relationship > [noun] ménagea1393 sex relation1871 sex relationship1873 the tender trap1954 1873 N.Y. Times 7 Mar. 5/3 [In society] polygamy and every other form of sex relationship are represented. 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex i. 8 There are certain historical characteristics of the Society of Friends that ought specially to lead to..understanding of the significance of the sex relationship. 2000 Industr. & Labor Relations Rev. 53 326 Gilman's central thesis is that because in the human species alone the female depends on the male for food,..for us the sex relationship is also an economic relationship. sex repression n. = sexual repression n. at sexual adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1899 ‘G. F. Monkshood’ Rudyard Kipling 39 The writings of Rudyard Kipling do not appeal to women... He does not write of adulterous entanglements prettily,..does not exhibit a study of sex-repression labelled religious fervour. 1958 J. Cannan And be Villain i. 27 Richard used to treat me as a case of sex repression. 2007 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 27 June 20 We have moved from sex repression to sex obsession. sex reversal n. the adoption of a physical form or behavioural role characteristic of the opposite sex. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > reassignment of sex or gender transexion1646 sex reversal1910 sex change1922 1910 Science 22 Apr. 632/2 Since none of these plants were subjected to the vigorous traumatic treatment described above it is held that some factor other than traumatism produces the sex reversal. 1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. iv. 53 Hens which had undergone sex-reversal to cocks. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female vi. 129 Peoples may provide sex-reversal rôles for both sexes. 2003 Science 19 Dec. 2050/1 Each year, a few babies are born with a male set of chromosomes and female sexual organs. This sex reversal..can happen when changes in a protein called SRY impair its function. sex-reversed adj. that has undergone sex reversal. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > reassignment of sex or gender transfeminated1646 sex-reversed1925 sex-reversing1926 1925 E. W. Sinnott & L. C. Dunn Princ. Genetics 230 If such a sex-reversed hen were barred, what would be the appearance of her offspring when bred to a non-barred hen? 2001 Scientist (Nexis) 23 July 18 A fertilized female mouse egg will become male when injected with SRY. The animal in question..was the first sex-reversed mouse ever produced in this way. sex-reversing adj. that reverses the sex of an animal or person; (also) that changes sex. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > reassignment of sex or gender transfeminated1646 sex-reversed1925 sex-reversing1926 1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. iv. 52 Some sexually abnormal human beings are the victims of this sex-reversing power. 1989 Evolution 43 1559/1 This lack of direct natural selection on the breeding sex ratio is perhaps nearly universal for typical dioecious species. Interestingly, this result is not true for sex-reversing organisms. 2002 New Scientist (Nexis) 24 Aug. 29 Sex-reversing mutations have spawned new species of cichlid fish in Lake Victoria. sex ring n. an organization or network of people engaged in crimes of a sexual nature, esp. the trafficking of children for the purpose of sexual abuse. ΚΠ 1937 Logansport (Indiana) Press 5 Oct. 1/4 [The] 19-year-old accused in a vicious ‘sex ring’ expose pleaded not guilty..on charges that he had assaulted a small girl. 1952 Chicago Tribune 19 Mar. iv. 10/6 A multi-million dollar sex ring, engaged in the distribution of dirty films..and in the production of off-color ‘girlie’ shows at smokers, was smashed tonight in a series of raids. 2004 C. Sanderson Seduction of Children (2005) i. 53 Sex rings consist of groups or networks of unrelated adults, in which they trade related, or unrelated, children. sex role n. originally Social Psychology the culturally determined role or pattern of behaviour which a person learns as appropriate to his or her sex. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > social psychology > [noun] > culturally determined role sex role1917 script1968 1917 B. Glueck & J. E. Lind tr. A. Adler Neurotic Constit. 103 The longer the uncertainty as to the sex-rôle [Ger. Geschlechtsrolle] exists, the more urgent becomes the effort..to attain the masculine rôle. 1977 China Now July 3/3 The sex-roles are traditionally presented and the girl who helps Mummy to hang out the washing is rewarded. 2005 N.Y. Times 18 Sept. (T: Style Mag.) 132/2 They experiment with relationships and sex roles, from boy toy to breadwinner, from date-to-the-ball to tantric-sex partner. sex scene n. (in a book, film, or play) a description or scene of a sexual nature, esp. one featuring sexual intercourse. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > scene > type of scene or act monologuec1550 monology1608 night scene1683 mad scene1741 drop-scene1815 recognition scene1838 carpenter's-scene1860 scène à faire1884 mob scene1890 sex scene1915 curtain1928 1915 Englewood (Chicago) Times 17 Dec. i. 1/5 Rancid sex scenes. 1925 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 19 Nov. [The play] contained the most strenuous sex scene ever known to New York..so daring that all other daring scenes seemed tame. 2002 V. Coren & C. Skelton Once more, with Feeling vi. 36 A sex scene between two girls is absolutely de rigueur in any mainstream porn film. sex shop n. a shop selling goods relating to sex, as pornography, sex aids, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods jeweller's shop1632 ironmongery1648 ironmonger1673 jeweller1675 news shop1688 print shop1689 Indian house1692 coal shed1718 pamphlet shop1721 lormery1725 drugstore1771 hardware store1777 junk store1777 chandler-shop1782 junk shop1790 music store1794 pot shop1794 finding store1822 marine store1837 picture house1838 paint shop1847 news agency1852 chemist1856 Army and Navy1878 cyclery1886 jumble-shop1893 pig shop1896 Manchester department1905 lot1909 craft shop1911 garden centre1912 pet shop1927 sex shop1949 video store1949 quincaillerie1951 home centre1955 Army-Navy1965 cookshop1967 sound shop1972 bucket-shop1973 1949 J. V. D. Houston Armed Pilgrimage i. 14 The ‘sex-shops’ at Kobe, where instruments for carnal satisfaction were sold openly and publicised in English. 1970 Guardian 26 Nov. 4/2 ‘Sex-shops’..are now established in many West German cities. 2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land xi. 113 Next door to the prim fifties dating culture of Camps Bay are Green Point's new sex shops, brothels and gay bars. sex surrogate n. a person who or thing which acts as a substitute for sexual activity or a sexual partner; spec. a person employed to have sexual relations with someone undergoing sex therapy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > therapy dealing with sexual problems > surrogate partner in sex surrogate1916 surrogate1975 1916 C. E. Long tr. C. G. Jung Coll. Papers Analyt. Psychol. iii. 172 Enuresis must be regarded as an infantile sex-surrogate [Ger. Sexualsurrogat]. 1975 Transcript (North Adams, Mass.) 16 June 3/1 ‘We try to be like the girl next door,’ said Bonnie, who calls herself a therapist and a sex surrogate. 1979 Guardian 10 July 9/1 Dr. Martin Cole's Institute for Sex Education and Research..has been supplying sex surrogate therapy for ten years. 2007 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 9 Feb. r35 The film's abrupt shift to 3-D porn and plastic sex surrogates explores only fetishism without truly addressing the isolation and alienation it exposes. sex symbol n. (a) a symbol that represents sex, or (the attributes of) a particular sex (now rare); (b) a person widely regarded as the epitome of sexual attractiveness and glamour (now the usual sense). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [noun] > symbol with sexual signification sex symbol1871 the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > sex appeal > sex symbol sex symbol1871 pin-up1943 1871 J. H. Jones Kingdom of Heaven 14 It resulted inevitably, therefore, that..the woman, the sex-symbol of the spirit, should become the slave of the man, the sex-symbol of the flesh. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xx. 442 Men..might regard her as nothing but sex symbol; she regarded herself as an intelligence. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 94/2 The ‘line’ [of chorus girls] itself..is even more basic than the sex symbol of the flower. 1976 N. Botham & P. Donnelly Valentino i. 12 The olive skin of the man who would..become the world's first and most enduring sex symbol. 2000 Daily Tel. 23 Nov. 5/2 Once a cone bra-wearing sex symbol.., she [sc. Madonna] now talks about little but her forthcoming marriage. sex therapist n. a therapist who addresses sexual problems. ΚΠ 1950 G. Heard Morals since 1900 ii. 141 It is as a master of language and of myth rather than as a specific sex-therapist..that he [sc. Sigmund Freud] will be remembered. 1977 J. S. DeLora & C. A. B. Warren Understanding Sexual Interaction iv. 90 Sex therapists, who direct their creative energy toward the specifically sexual difficulties of individuals or couples. 2005 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 17 Sept. 12 e The sex therapist may want to work with him alone at first, then eventually include couple therapy. sex therapy n. therapy (now esp. counselling) which addresses a person's (perceived) psychological or physical sexual problems. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > therapy dealing with sexual problems sex therapy1952 conversion therapy1973 1952 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 8 Aug. 9/2 Sex Therapy. Homosexuals can cure themselves if they resolutely wish to do so. 1970 F. Belliveau & L. Richter Understanding Human Sexual Inadequacy (1971) iii. vii. 77 Success in sex therapy is dependent upon communication between the sex-partners. 2003 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 May d1/4 Erotic materials or sexual activity aren't part of mainstream sex therapy. sex totem n. Cultural Anthropology (among some southern and south-eastern Australian Aboriginal peoples) a totem specific to either men or women. ΚΠ 1887 J. G. Frazer Totemism 53 Men who do not object to other people killing their clan totem will fiercely defend their sex totem against any attempt of the opposite sex to injure it. 1927 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 May 328/2 One has only to think of the remarkable institution of the sex-totem in aboriginal Australia. 2018 Skin, Kin & Clan (e-book, accessed 18 May 2018) vi. 157 The widespread use (in south-eastern Australia) of the bat as a sex totem for men. sex tour n. (a) a guided tour of a city's red-light district, museums of erotica, etc.; (b) a holiday taken specifically for the purpose of engaging in sexual activities; spec. a trip to a country (frequently in the developing world) made in order to take advantage of the lack of restrictions imposed on sexual activity, esp. the more open availability and lower cost of prostitutes. ΚΠ 1974 N.Y. Times 8 Sept. 18/2 On the back of the..folder, entitled ‘Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen’, were listed the six excursions, with the sex tour labeled, ‘Copenhagen's Naked Truth’. 1977 Economist 7 May (Survey) 52/2 It is normal to smooth deals with much business hospitality, which has a special meaning in a country where ‘sex tours for Japanese businessmen’ are part of the invisible exports drive. 1995 Village Voice (N.Y.) 19 Aug. 53 Any lonely shlub with a passport can feel like a stud..on 10-night sex tours in the Philippines. sex tourism n. tourism (usually to a developing country) undertaken specifically for the purpose of engaging in sexual activities; the taking of sex tours (see sex tour n. (b)). ΚΠ 1979 N.Y. Times 5 Aug. 10/3 Protests against Japanese sex tourism..seem likely to mount in Asia's developing countries, concurrently with criticism of Japanese business practices. 1997 Bangkok Post 26 Feb. (Outlook section) 8/4 Sri Lanka is forming a Child Protection Authority to oversee a national campaign against youth-centred sex tourism. sex tourist n. (a) a person who visits a place in search of sexual titillation (rare); (b) a person who engages in sex tourism (now the usual sense). ΚΠ 1954 C. Timberlake Bishop of Broadway xxv. 377 This ‘play for the sex-tourists’—this ‘evening among the lesser fleshpots’—this ‘Darling of the Bawds’. 1979 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 11 Nov. They are not the only sex tourists in Bangkok, which attracts other moneyed nationalities. 1984 E. Kim in E. Y. Yu & E. H. Phillips Korean Women in Transition (1987) viii. 137 To understand the motives of Western sex tourists, one cannot ignore the importance of their fantasies about Asian women. 2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land p. xiii We kept company with sex tourists and murderers, made friends with gangsters and racists, found some of the finest clubs in the world, and witnessed some of the worst dancing in evidence anywhere on the planet. sex toy n. (a) a person viewed as a sexual plaything; (b) a device or object designed for sexual stimulation (as a dildo, vibrator, etc.) or to enhance sexual pleasure or performance. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > object used in sexual activity > [noun] sex toy1963 1963 J. Rechy in A. Baraka Moderns 146 Tiny, like a sextoy, she squirms her butt cutely. 1972 Stud. in Family Planning 3 255 The current products clearly indicate the trend to view condoms not only as a contraceptive but also as a sex tool. Japan has a long tradition from the feudal days of such sex toys. 1976 Leicester Trader 24 Nov. 22/2 (advt.) Sex toys catalogue pack. 1999 J. Burchill Married Alive xiv. 206 Michaela turns to me and smiles as if all her Christmases have come at once and she's getting sex toys for all of them. sex trade n. the sex industry, spec. the business of prostitution. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] bordelc1300 prostitution1553 trugging1591 trade1592 putanism1672 street1750 Magdalenism1840 the life1858 profession1888 social evil1901 hustling1924 game1926 sex trade1931 1931 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 42 41 The income and budget of the sex trade, the control of venereal disease, sterility, arrangements with police. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 18 July (Final ed.) 13 No men have yet been prosecuted for sex with women or girls forced into the sex trade. sex trafficking n. the action or practice of coercing people into prostitution, pornography, or other forms of commercial sexual exploitation, usually involving illegal or forcible relocation. ΚΠ 1913 Ottumwa (Iowa) Daily Rev. 30 Oct. The girls and women of the country are found to be safe and not even knowing of a single case of sex trafficking in their whole city. 1977 Monroe (Louisiana) News-Star 27 May a4/5 The CBS-60-Minutes show discussed this tragic subject of sex trafficking in children. 2013 F. Malekian & K. Nordlöf Prohibition Sexual Exploitation Children ix. 219 Increasing poverty in different parts of the world leads to sex trafficking. sex-typed adj. Sociology and Psychology categorized or ‘typed’ as being characteristic of either the male or the female sex. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [adjective] > characteristic of male or female sex sex-typed1941 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > social psychology > [adjective] > typed by sex sex-typed1941 1941 N. E. Miller & J. Dollard Social Learning & Imitation xii. 198 The punishments meted out to adults who actually exhibit such tendencies tend to maintain and strengthen the sex-typed habits acquired. 1979 Bull. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. Feb. 31 The modal pattern for each sex is, nonetheless, conventionally sex-typed. 2000 C. L. Williams in M. S. Kimmel & A. Aronson Gendered Society Reader 294 Few have looked at the ‘flip-side’ of occupational sex segregation: the exclusion of men from predominantly female sex-typed occupations. sex-typing n. and adj. (a) n. the categorization of people, or their appearance, behaviour, etc., according to conventional perceptions of what is typical of each sex; (b) adj. that categorizes people in this way. ΚΠ 1938 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 3 732 One can see from the record the persistent sex-typing of character under the influence of his parents and colleagues. 1976 New Society 4 Mar. 509/1 The ‘blue/gun for a boy: pink/dolly for a girl’, sex-typing syndrome. 2001 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 24 Dec. 5 Of course, women can enjoy ‘male’ fiction,..want to flee domesticity and become monks or action heroes... That's what makes any kind of rigid sex-typing absurd. sex urge n. = sex drive n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > sex drive or instinct sex impulse1883 sex instinct1883 libido1909 sex drive1916 sex urge1920 1920 M. Sanger Woman & New Race ix. 111 This man is not concerned with his wife's sex urge, save as it responds to his own at times of his choosing. 1966 D. Francis Flying Finish vi. 74 Bravery is built in... You can't stamp it out any more than the sex urge. 1991 K. Dalton Once Month (ed. 5) xx. 194 Sometimes when you feel most bloody-minded you nevertheless have an increased sex urge during the premenstruum. sex work n. (a) the academic study of sexual behaviour or practices (rare); (b) employment in the sex industry, esp. paid work providing sexual services, such as in the pornography business or as a prostitute.Typically used (esp. when in preference to prostitution) to avoid or reduce negative connotations and to evoke affinity with conventional service industries. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [noun] > study of sex sexology1867 sex work1934 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > action or practice of being a prostitute strumpetry1435 strumperya1500 harloting1575 sacking1591 streetwalking1735 sex work1934 tomming1964 hoing1972 escorting1988 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > pornography > trade in sex work1934 skin trade1969 1934 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 21 334 Hemp has been the subject of a great deal of study in regard to its sexual behavior. Malloch (1922) points out its desirability for sex work. 1970 N.Y. Times 27 Apr. 28/1 He [sc. Dr. William H. Masters] started sex work in 1954. 1983 in C. Leigh Unrepentant Whore (2004) 71 Subtitled ‘The demystification of the Sex-Work Industry’, this one-woman performance piece was written by a prostitute. 1996 F. M. Shaver in B. Schissel & L. Mahood Social Control in Canada ix. 205 Many feminist theorists simply denounce prostitution in particular and sex work in general as dangerous, degrading, and entirely undesirable as a profession. sex worker n. a person who is paid or employed to provide sexual services, esp. one working in the pornography business or as a prostitute.Typically used (esp. when in preference to prostitute) to avoid or reduce negative connotations and to evoke affinity with conventional service industries. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute meretrixOE whoreOE soiled dovea1250 common womanc1330 putec1384 bordel womanc1405 putaina1425 brothelc1450 harlot?a1475 public womanc1510 naughty pack?1529 draba1533 cat1535 strange woman1535 stew1552 causey-paikera1555 putanie?1566 drivelling1570 twigger1573 punka1575 hackney1579 customer1583 commodity1591 streetwalker1591 traffic1591 trug1591 hackster1592 polecat1593 stale1593 mermaid1595 medlar1597 occupant1598 Paphian1598 Winchester goose1598 pagan1600 hell-moth1602 aunt1604 moll1604 prostitution1605 community1606 miss1606 night-worm1606 bat1607 croshabell1607 prostitute1607 pug1607 venturer1607 nag1608 curtal1611 jumbler1611 land-frigate1611 walk-street1611 doll-common1612 turn-up1612 barber's chaira1616 commonera1616 public commonera1616 trader1615 venturea1616 stewpot1616 tweak1617 carry-knave1623 prostibule1623 fling-dusta1625 mar-taila1625 night-shadea1625 waistcoateera1625 night trader1630 coolera1632 meretrician1631 painted ladya1637 treadle1638 buttock1641 night-walker1648 mob?1650 lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651 lady of pleasure1652 trugmullion1654 fallen woman1659 girlc1662 high-flyer1663 fireship1665 quaedama1670 small girl1671 visor-mask1672 vizard-mask1672 bulker1673 marmalade-madam1674 town miss1675 town woman1675 lady of the night1677 mawks1677 fling-stink1679 Whetstone whore1684 man-leech1687 nocturnal1693 hack1699 strum1699 fille de joie1705 market-dame1706 screw1725 girl of (the) town1733 Cytherean1751 street girl1764 monnisher1765 lady of easy virtue1766 woman (also lady) of the town1766 kennel-nymph1771 chicken1782 stargazer1785 loose fish1809 receiver general1811 Cyprian1819 mollya1822 dolly-mop1834 hooker1845 charver1846 tail1846 horse-breaker1861 professional1862 flagger1865 cocodette1867 cocotte1867 queen's woman1871 common prostitute1875 joro1884 geisha1887 horizontal1888 flossy1893 moth1896 girl of the pavement1900 pross1902 prossie1902 pusher1902 split-arse mechanic1903 broad1914 shawl1922 bum1923 quiff1923 hustler1924 lady of the evening1924 prostie1926 working girl1928 prostisciutto1930 maggie1932 brass1934 brass nail1934 mud kicker1934 scupper1935 model1936 poule de luxe1937 pro1937 chromo1941 Tom1941 pan-pan1949 twopenny upright1958 scrubber1959 slack1959 yum-yum girl1960 Suzie Wong1962 mattress1964 jamette1965 ho1966 sex worker1971 pavement princess1976 parlour girl1979 crack whore1990 1971 N.Y. Times 7 Nov. 1/5 Coupling rage and laughter, detailing joys among urban field hands, thieves, postal workers, sex workers, factory workers, and the inevitable unemployed, and letting them specify what America is to a great many black folks. 1984 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 18 July ‘Sex workers unite’, declared Carol Leigh. 2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health ii. 345 Syphilis prevalence has increased globally over recent years, especially in inner cities where it is associated with sex workers and drug use. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † sexn.² Forms: 1500s sexe, 1500s 1700s sex. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: sect n.¹ Etymology: Variant of sect n.¹, arising from confusion with sex n.¹, probably as a result of the homophony (in varieties with loss of the final /t/) of the plural sects with sex n.¹ Compare earlier sect n.¹ 1d, which apparently shows the reverse development. Obsolete. = sect n.¹ (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] churcheOE kirkc1175 spousea1200 lawa1225 lorea1225 religionc1325 faithc1384 sectc1386 seta1387 leara1400 hirselc1480 professiona1513 congregation1526 communion1553 schism1555 segregation1563 sex1583 hortus conclususa1631 confessiona1641 dispensation1643 sectary1651 churchship1675 cult1679 persuasion1732 denomination1746–7 connection1753 covenant1818 sectarism1821 organized religion1843 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Liij ^v Whether thinkest thou better sporte & more absurd, to see an Asse play on an harpe contrary to his sex, or heare [etc.]. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xx. 358 So are all sexes and sorts of people called vpon. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 380 O detestable furie, not to be found in most cruel beasts, which spare the bloud of their sexe. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 180/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II The whole sex of the Oconhours. a1704 T. Brown Dialogues of Dead in 4th Vol. Wks. (1720) 163 We have had enough of these Christians; and sure there can be no worse among the other Sex of Mankind [i.e. Jews and Turks]? 1707 F. Atterbury Large Vindic. Doctr. 47 Much less can I imagine, why a Jewish Sex (whether of Pharisees or Saducees) should be represented, as [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2020). sexv. Brit. /sɛks/, U.S. /sɛks/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: sex n.¹ Etymology: < sex n.¹ Compare earlier sexing n. 1. transitive. To identify as male or female; esp. to determine the sex of (an animal, an individual from skeletal remains, etc.) by examination. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [verb (transitive)] > attribute sex or gender to sexualize1839 sex1874 1874 Stray Feathers 2 14 First, there is an African specimen, with a rose-coloured ring, sexed by Dr. Brehm as a female. 1878 Spirit of Times 19 Jan. 659/2 If we sex the cattle, which is the only way to get at their value, we shall have..400 cows, 200 yearling heifers. 1888 A. Newton in Zoologist 12 101 The..barbarous phrase of ‘collecting a specimen’ and then of ‘sexing’ it. 1945 D. L. Leedy & L. E. Hicks in W. L. McAtee Ring-necked Pheasant 64 Pheasants may be sexed in the field at close range when they are about 7 or 8 weeks of age. 1996 A. Walker & P. Shipman Wisdom of Bones x. 170 Osteologists who study the human skeleton have always experienced great difficulty in ‘sexing’—determining the sex of—immature individuals. 2003 Alaska Sept. 46/3 I began quickly sexing the animals. No. 1 lead cow, No. 2 calf, No. 3 small cow, until I got to No. 5—large bull. 2. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). a. intransitive and transitive. To have sexual intercourse (with). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse playOE to do (also work) one's kindc1225 bedc1315 couple1362 gendera1382 to go togetherc1390 to come togethera1398 meddlea1398 felterc1400 companya1425 swivec1440 japea1450 mellc1450 to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474 engender1483 fuck?a1513 conversec1540 jostlec1540 confederate1557 coeate1576 jumble1582 mate1589 do1594 conjoin1597 grind1598 consortc1600 pair1603 to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608 commix1610 cock1611 nibble1611 wap1611 bolstera1616 incorporate1622 truck1622 subagitate1623 occupya1626 minglec1630 copulate1632 fere1632 rut1637 joust1639 fanfreluche1653 carnalize1703 screw1725 pump1730 correspond1756 shag1770 hump1785 conjugate1790 diddle1879 to get some1889 fuckeec1890 jig-a-jig1896 perform1902 rabbit1919 jazz1920 sex1921 root1922 yentz1923 to make love1927 rock1931 mollock1932 to make (beautiful) music (together)1936 sleep1936 bang1937 lumber1938 to hop into bed (with)1951 to make out1951 ball1955 score1960 trick1965 to have it away1966 to roll in the hay1966 to get down1967 poontang1968 pork1968 shtup1969 shack1976 bonk1984 boink1985 1921 K. Burke Let. 20 Aug. in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 98 Our baby is eighteen months old now, and cries when we sex. 1966 ‘G. Black’ You want to die, Johnny? ix. 172 The surprising thing isn't the number of teenagers who sex and dope, but rather..that there are so many that don't. 1967 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp xiii. 215 Slim, I hope you ain't sexed that pretty bitch yet... Always stick a whore for a bundle before you sex her. 1980 J. Barnett Palmprint i. 6 Maybe we sex together at yo' place. 2005 ‘Noire’ Candy Licker (front matter) Have you ever laid down with a man and wasn't sure if you'd ever get back up?.. Sexed him like your life depended on it? b. transitive. With up. To arouse (a person) sexually; (also) to have sexual intercourse with (a person). ΚΠ 1974 D. Madden Bijou iv. 390 The idea sexed him up. He'd never read a fuck story. 1981 J. Updike Rabbit is Rich ii. 125 In bed, perhaps it's the rain that sexes him up, he insists they make love. 1991 ‘Color me badd’ (title of song) I wanna sex you up. 1993 R. Shell iCED 159 I..came back, sexed her up good, gave her the keys and went to work. 2006 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 28 Oct. 8 [He] was trying to sex me up. 3. transitive. colloquial. With up. To make more sexually exciting or explicit; to inject sexual content into (a book, film, etc.). Now also more generally: to make something more interesting or exciting; to spice up. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [verb (transitive)] sex1931 1931 H. L. Wilson Two Black Sheep 159 ‘Put her in one of those things and sex it up to a glucose finish!’ ‘But she ain't film-minded,’ insisted the director sadly. 1949 J. Thurber Let. 29 Oct. (2002) 466 Ann Honeycutt, half way through her book about the American male, was told by Jack Goodman to sex it up, unthink it, and personalize it. 1967 H. Hood Camera always Lies ii. ii. 43 I think we've got to make a dirty picture. Not too dirty,..but good and dirty... Sex it up, in short. 1999 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Nov. 60/3 This suit..[is] cut to be body-conscious, as opposed to the..boxy suit of the 1950's. It's deliberately sexing up a business look. 2003 Independent (Nexis) 20 June 10 It is inconceivable that they [sc. Downing Street] didn't sex up the intelligence dossier that led to the Iraq war. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : sex-comb. form < n.¹a1382n.²1583v.1874 see also
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