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semierotic en · ADJ

Etymology

From semi- + erotic.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Somewhat erotic; sexually charged but not explicit.
   • The first group was positive pictures of a "semierotic" nature; the second group was neutral pictures depicting houses; and the third group was negative pictures of "the starving or injured." 1977, M. P. Janisse, Pupillometry: the psychology of the pupillary response, page 45:
   • The guy jumping into a chat room may be out for some fast self-gratification, a little entertainment, or a semierotic, semiamusing way to kill ten minutes at the office. 2007, Jack Mauro, M4M: For an Hour or Forever--the Gay Man's Guide to Finding Love Online, →ISBN:
   • Perhaps equally problematic from a European/North American feminist point of view is the invitation to pleasure in the semierotic surrogate-mother/infant-boy relationship between Xiaoxiao and Chunguan. 1993, Wimal Dissanayake, Dudley Andrew, Melodrama and Asian Cinema, →ISBN, page 22:
   • Henry Spencer Ashbee, the leading nineteenth-century bibliographer of erotic and semierotic literature, estimated that Thompson had written nearly a hundred books. 2009, Donna Dennis, Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York, →ISBN:

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