perisexual
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perisexual (not comparable)
- Related to sex or sex-seeking, without being explicitly sexual.
- 1965, Jeremy Mitchell, “Swinburne - The Disappointed Protagonist”, in Yale French Studies, volume 35, →JSTOR, pages 81–88:
- Ritual beatings were his first perisexual experiences, and they are vividly and enthusiastically remembered and described in his letters.
- 2000, Margaret H. Childs, “(Review of) Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950 by Gregory M. Pflugfelder”, in Monumenta Nipponica, volume 55, number 3, →JSTOR, pages 443–445:
- Since he has just clarified the Edo tendency to distinguish between perisexual and sexual acts, convincingly showing that male-male sexual acts were not problematized before the Meiji period, his position on this issue is not particularly persuasive.
- 2016, Whiti Cecilia, Knowledge, perception and status of sexual health among students at Morgenster Teachers’ College, Masvingo District, Zimbabwe (thesis):
- A number of sociocultural and peri-sexual behaviours and practices were thought to be important in determining the epidemiology of STI among the students.