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Sexual love   /sˈɛkʃuəl ləv/   Listen
Sexual love

noun
1.
A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction.  Synonyms: erotic love, love.  "She was his first love"
2.
Sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people.  Synonyms: love, love life, lovemaking, making love.  "He hadn't had any love in months" , "He has a very complicated love life"






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"Sexual love" Quotes from Famous Books



... been wholly familiar with the results of the commerce of the sexes. The practice of exogamy was no doubt, as shown by Dr. Westermarck, favoured and supported by the influence of novelty in sexual attraction, since according to common observation and experience sexual love or desire is more easily excited between strangers or slight acquaintances than between those who have long lived together in the same household or in familiar intercourse. In the latter case the attraction is dulled ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India--Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell

... recognized, many of the idle questions of casuistry that are sometimes raised regarding sexual love and marriage will cease to trouble. For these questions generally presuppose the lowest possible view of this passion. Browning shows us how to follow with serene security the pure light of the emotion of love, amidst all the confused lawlessness of lustful passion, and through ...
— Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher • Henry Jones

... is the basis of the highest political hope that it can enter into the mind of man to conceive. The freedom of women produced the poetry of sexual love. Love became a religion, the idols of whose worship were ever present. It was as if the statues of Apollo and the Muses had been endowed with life and motion, and had walked forth among their worshippers; so that earth ...
— English literary criticism • Various

... sequence as regards their deep and arresting symbolism. The order is, first, the Southern, then the Western, Northern and Eastern panels as the fountain lies. The panel here illustrated is third in the sequence. In the first panel are shown the motive Elemental Emotions - Vanity, Sexual Love and mere Physical Parenthood without enlightenment. After the next milestone is the second panel called "Natural Selection." This presents the approach of the Strong Man; little wings beside his head indicate the dawn of Intellect. Women turn to him ...
— The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition • Stella G. S. Perry



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