Definition of Sexual urge

1. Noun. All of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses. "The film contained no sex or violence"

Exact synonyms: Sex
Generic synonyms: Feeling
Derivative terms: Sex, Sexy, Sexy

Literary usage of Sexual urge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sex Searchlights and Sane Sex Ethics: An Anthology of Sex Knowledge by Lee Alexander Stone (1922)
"Of the 62 whose testimony is of value, we find 12 indifferent to the sexual urge to 50 who felt it strongly. Some 42 women asked similarly, returned the ..."

2. The Control of Hunger in Health and Disease by Anton Julius Carlson (1916)
"... hunger is even more fundamental or primitive than the sexual urge (libido), since feeding is a necessity in all forms of life, while sexual reproduction ..."

3. The Control of Hunger in Health and Disease by Anton Julius Carlson (1916)
"... hunger is even more fundamental or primitive than the sexual urge (libido), since feeding is a necessity in all forms of life, while sexual reproduction ..."

4. Heartache of Motherhood by Joyce Nicholson (1983)
"The sexual urge leads to marriage and children, and has been responsible for the way in which we live. In the industrialized society it led to the creation ..."

5. The Mental Hygiene of Childhood by William Alanson White (1919)
"... of infantile pleasure activities under the necessity for outlet created by the | greatly enhanced sexual urge. The important progressive change in the ..."

6. The Mental Hygiene of Childhood by William Alanson White (1919)
"... of infantile pleasure activities under the necessity for outlet created by the greatly enhanced sexual urge. The important progressive change in the ..."

7. The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin (1997)
"Instead of the immediacy of the sexual urge, projected through patterns subject to natural cycles, humans experience ever more mediated forms of sexual ..."

8. A General introduction to psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud (1920)
"As a result of the characteristic of the sexual urge which makes it somewhat less dependent upon its object than hunger and thirst, satisfaction in a dream ..."

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