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sex-hunger en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The desire for sexual intercourse.
   • Women's rhythm of life, her monthly renewal with her patroness the Moon, is the most important thing in her existence. It is her stability in a world made mad for ever by man's wretched alternating between the tension of sex-hunger and the slap-happy folly of indulgence. 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 145:
   • Here are two entirely unwarranted assumptions: First, that a woman of strong passions is necessarily born of lust; secondly, that being thus organized, if she refuses to bear the torture of sex hunger and exercises that function before the state says she may, she is, as a matter of course, a fallen woman. 1896, Lois Waisbrooker, My Century Plant, Topeka, Kansas: Independent Publishing Company, page 213: