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/sɛk.ʃuː.əl/ · adjective
Arising from the fact of being male or female; pertaining to sex or gender, or to the social relations between the sexes..
Women face sexual discrimination in the workplace.
Giving oral sex is my favorite sexual act.
The church was tighening up on matters sexual. Until the middle of the tenth century it had been quite routine for priests to be married.
One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
“When you’re not numbing out with substances and suddenly you’re face to face with somebody you want to be sexual with, that can be really scary at first,” said Laura Rademacher, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Minneapolis who offers a class on sober sex in her practice.
She's a very sexual woman.
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.
a sexual innuendo
Use sexual when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sexual means Arising from the fact of being male or female; pertaining to sex or gender, or to the social relations between the sexes..
Common synonyms include allosexual, feminine, eusexual, sexy.
Possible antonyms include asexual, nonsexual.
Women face sexual discrimination in the workplace.
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