Sexual vs Arousal - What's the difference?
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Of or relating to having sex, sexual acts and sexual reproduction.
Of or relating to gender.
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, title= Of or relating to sexuality; not asexual.
* 1994 , Purity & passion (ISBN 0802471307), page 67:
Of or relating to sexual orientations, sexual identity or preferences with respect to sexual intercourse
(biology) A species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
(LGBT) A person who experiences attraction, a person who has interest in or desire for sex (especially as contrasted with an asexual).
The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
Sexual arousal.
A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and readiness to respond.
* 2003 , Jinhee Choi, "Fits and Startles: Cognitivism Revisited," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism , vol. 61, no. 2 (Spring), p. 152,
Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
As nouns the difference between sexual and arousal
is that sexual is (biology) a species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species while arousal is the act of arousing or the state of being aroused.As an adjective sexual
is of or relating to having sex, sexual acts and sexual reproduction.sexual
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
- We don't often think of Jesus as a sexual' person, but He certainly was not asexual. He was not just God on earth. He was fully human and He was ' sexual , single, and celibate.
Derived terms
* nonsexual * sexuality * sexualism * sexually * sexual politics * subsexualSee also
*Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* (biology) asexual * (person) asexualExternal links
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English
(wikipedia arousal)Noun
(en noun)- bodily arousal
- emotional arousal
- to influence the arousal of brain and behavior
- Some people get sexual arousal from the depiction of feet.
- Subjects report the physiological arousals induced by adrenaline and placebo differently.
- the mechanism for arousal from sleep
- the animal undergoes regular spells of arousal