sex life en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˈsɛksˌlaɪf/
Meanings
-
That part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity.
It not infrequently happens that after a love-marriage and some years of what is considered happiness, the man or woman may withdraw from the sex-life, often looking down upon it, and considering that they have reached a higher plane by so doing. But such people seldom ask themselves if, while they lived it, they reached the highest possible level of the sex-life.
1918, Marie Stopes, Married Love, section 8:Have you read any good books lately? Oh and by the way, how is your sex life? According to Daniel Lord Smail activities like these are the true drivers of history.
2008 January 24, Steven Mithen, “When We Were Nicer”, in London Review of Books, volume 30, number 02, →ISSN:1900 January 27, Swami Vivekananda, My Life And Mission, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 8: Lectures And Discourses, But I cannot live the sex life, although I have married you.
In the human animal, speaking in general, these feelings of sympathy (love) and duty are strongly developed in the family connection; that is, they are developed with special strength in those who are most intimately united in sex life, in husband and wife and in children.
1922, Henry Stanton, chapter X, in Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English:Do you think I don't know the foulness of your sex life—and her's?—I do.
1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XXIII, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sex lives | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
Translations (28)
fi sukupuolielämä (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · lt lytinis gyvenimas (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · da sexliv (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · ga saol gnéis (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · nb seksualliv (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · nn sexliv (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · pl życie płciowe (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · es vida sexual (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · fr vie sexuelle (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · pt vida sexual (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · nn seksualliv (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · tr cinsel hayat (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · tr cinsel yaşam (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · de Sexleben (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · gv bea cheintyssagh (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · tr seks hayatı (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · ja 性生活 (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · pl życie seksualne (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · de Liebesleben (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · fo kynslív (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · sv sexliv (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · fi seksielämä (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · gl vida sexual (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · da kønsliv (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · ru сексуа́льная жизнь (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · cmn 性生活 (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · nb sexliv (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity) · is kynlíf (part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity)