Sexual vs Unsexual - 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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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).
Not sexual.
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, passage=Other nonballet movements — one man landing out of the blue on another man’s neck and staying there (oddly comic), or a man running backward around the stage in decelerating and decreasing circles (an absorbing minimalist effect) — become peculiar strokes of poetry. Mr. Parker gives his most striking moments to his male dancers, not least in unsexual male duets, as when one guy supports another in ballet adagio. }}
As adjectives the difference between sexual and unsexual
is that sexual is of or relating to having sex, sexual acts and sexual reproduction while unsexual is not sexual.As a noun sexual
is a species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.sexual
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(en adjective)Mark Tran
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- 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
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(en noun)Antonyms
* (biology) asexual * (person) asexualExternal links
* * ----unsexual
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