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Sexuality is a somewhat careful, grown-up word for the sexual side of a person: the desires they feel, the thoughts that come with those desires, and the feelings that go with them. It is bigger than one act in bed. It can cover who you are drawn to, how strong that pull is, what feels good or scary, and how you show that part of yourself — or hide it.
Sexuality is a somewhat careful, grown-up word sexuality是一個滿謹慎、成人用的字 for the sexual side of a person 指一個人身上跟性有關的那一面：the desires they feel, the thoughts that come with those desires, and the feelings that go with them 他們感受到的慾望、伴隨這些慾望而來的想法，還有隨之而來的感受。It is bigger than one act in bed 它涵蓋的範圍比床上的一個動作大得多。It can cover who you are drawn to 它可以包括你被什麼樣的人吸引，how strong that pull is 這種吸引力有多強，what feels good or scary 什麼讓你覺得舒服或害怕，and how you show that part of yourself — or hide it 還有你怎麼展現這部分的自己，或把它藏起來。
Teachers, doctors, and writers use it a lot; in everyday talk people often say simpler things like “who you like” or “sex.” People also stretch it.
Teachers, doctors, and writers use it a lot 老師、醫生、作家很常用這個字；in everyday talk people often say simpler things like "who you like" or "sex." 日常講話大家常常說比較簡單的說法，像「who you like」或「sex」。People also stretch it 大家也會把這個字延伸使用。
Some use sexuality to mean only “men or women — which do you want?” (that is really sexual orientation, one piece of the picture). Others use it for a whole topic in class, as in “we are studying sexuality,” meaning the subject, not one person’s private life.
Some use sexuality to mean only "men or women — which do you want?" 有些人用sexuality只是想表達「喜歡男生還是女生？」(that is really sexual orientation, one piece of the picture) （這其實是sexual orientation，只是整個概念的一部分）。Others use it for a whole topic in class 也有人用它來指課堂上的一整個主題，as in "we are studying sexuality," 像「we are studying sexuality」這句話裡，meaning the subject, not one person's private life 指的是這門學科，而不是某個人的私生活。
It is not a rude word, but it is personal, so it belongs in calm, respectful talk.
It is not a rude word 這不是一個粗俗的字，but it is personal 但它很私人，so it belongs in calm, respectful talk 所以要用在平和、尊重的談話裡。
組成From New Latin sexualitas. In English you can see sexual + -ity. The ending -ity turns an adjective into a noun that names a quality, like real → reality: here, the quality of being sexual.
同家族的字
- sexualthe adjective this noun is built from
- sexthe shorter older word at the root
- sexualizethe verb from the same family
- sexualizationthe noun for the act of making something sexual
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sexualitynoun/sɛk.ʃuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/
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The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.
- Sexuality, then, is related to both biological sex and gender, and simultaneously is quite distinct from them. […] We employ sexuality to refer to all kinds of sexual relations, including sexual activities, eroticism, sexual identities, sexual meanings, and sexual politics.
- An alternative pattern of change from sexuality to asexuality in Ascomycotina could involve the widespread occurrence of female sterility. Both asexuality and 'female sterility' are widespread in Ascomycotina, and this may indicate that many ascomycotous Fungi Anamorphici have lost sexuality by a gradual process initiated by the loss or mutation of a gene other than an MTF resulting in 'female sterility'. […] There is also clear evidnece that loss of sexuality has occurred more than once in Talaromyces [A] and, in addition, asexual species are separated from sexual species by short branch lengths in terminal clades […]
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The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.
- [W]hen adults with mild mental retardation are allowed to express their sexuality in appropriate ways, they are, in general, competent in terms of biological capability, sexual desire, and the psychological significance they attribute to sexual behavior[…]. However, they typically lack basic information about sexuality that would enhance their ability to engage in intimate relationships, as well as help them to be aware of the implications of that behavior and to protect themselves from exploitation.
- Listening to teenage girls on the telephone discuss for an hour who held whose hand at a party underscores the universal adolescent fascination with burgeoning sexuality.
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The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.
- As his sexual activity is aggressive, so he is interested in display and in manifestation of his sexuality, if not directly, then in contest against other men. And the whole of his life manifests his inner need to take initiative.
- [Thomas] Hardy relies heavily upon the natural object metaphor to provide him with a language of female sexuality that is not of the fastidious, fey, 'lilies-and-lace' category. In keeping with his heterodox views—that a voluptuous woman is a fair product of nature, fit and healthy in body and mind, neither degraded by her sexuality nor mentally or morally degenerate—he relies upon wholesome, 'natural' objects to evoke her healthy sexual appetite.
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The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.
- [T]his prospective gay adoptive father chose not to disclose his sexuality to the caseworker who interviewed him at his home, rather than admit that he was a gay man, in order to avoid being told he could not adopt.
- Derek is the only participant to express ambivalence about both his sexuality and his gender identity. Aged 61, he has been married to women twice and has three children. He had no prior sexual encounters with men until he left his second wife in 1999, when he was 48, and began 'experimenting' with sexual relationships with men, soon identifying as gay: […]
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The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。