| 单词 | sexual preference |
| 释义 | > as lemmassexual preference sexual preference n. (originally) a preference with respect to an object of sexual desire, potential mate, partner, etc.; (later chiefly) a person's sexual identity in relation to the gender or genders to whom he or she is usually attracted; (broadly) the fact of being heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual (cf. sexual orientation n.).Now sometimes regarded as offensive when used to refer to a person's sexual identity or orientation, with preference viewed as implying that a person's sexual identity is chosen rather than inherent.In early use probably not a fixed collocation. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > [noun] sexual preference1822 sexuality1897 sexual orientation1931 orientation1978 1822 J. Fleming Philos. Zool. I. xv. 430 There is no example of individuals of one species giving a sexual preference to those of another. 1894 C. G. Chaddock in A. M. Hamilton & L. Godkin Sys. Legal Med. II. 566 This display of sexual preference may have for its object the physical (corporeal) characteristics of the opposite sex or objects artificially associated with them.., such as articles of wearing-apparel. 1944 Mind 53 154 We say, for instance, that it shows an undeveloped moral sense to blame a man for some involuntary but abnormal sexual preference. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 722/2 Seven subjects expressed a primary sexual preference other than heterosexual. 1994 Weekly World News 4 Jan. 6/2 We..measure their sexual preference by observing the dilation of the pupils of their eyes, their body language and their behavior. When we find the male that excites a high level of interest in the female, we arrange to mate the two [animals]. 2010 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 25 Apr. (Herald-Times ed.) (Parade section) 14/1 After more than a decade of keeping his sexual preference under wraps, he's recently come out of the closet. < as lemmas |
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