sex life

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛksˌlaɪf/

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Noun

sex life (plural sex lives)

1. That part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity.
   • 1900 January 27, Swami Vivekananda, My Life And Mission, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 8: Lectures And Discourses,

     But I cannot live the sex life, although I have married you.

   • 1918, Marie Stopes, Married Love, section 8:

     It not infrequently happens that after a love-marriage and some years of what is considered happiness, the man or woman may withdraw from the sex-life, often looking down upon it, and considering that they have reached a higher plane by so doing. But such people seldom ask themselves if, while they lived it, they reached the highest possible level of the sex-life.

   • 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XXIII, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC:

     Do you think I don't know the foulness of your sex life—and her's?—I do.

   • 1922, Henry Stanton, chapter X, in Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English:

     In the human animal, speaking in general, these feelings of sympathy (love) and duty are strongly developed in the family connection; that is, they are developed with special strength in those who are most intimately united in sex life, in husband and wife and in children.

   • 2008 January 24, Steven Mithen, “When We Were Nicer”, in London Review of Books‎^[1], volume 30, number 02, →ISSN:

     Have you read any good books lately? Oh and by the way, how is your sex life? According to Daniel Lord Smail activities like these are the true drivers of history.

Synonyms

• love life

Translations

part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性生活 (zh) (xìngshēnghuó)

• Danish: sexliv n, kønsliv n
• Faroese: kynslív n
• Finnish: sukupuolielämä, seksielämä
• French: vie sexuelle f
• Galician: vida sexual f
• German: Liebesleben (de) n, Sexleben (de) n
• Icelandic: kynlíf (is) n
• Irish: saol gnéis m
• Japanese: 性生活 (ja) (せいせいかつ, seiseikatsu)
• Lithuanian: lytinis gyvenimas m
• Manx: bea cheintyssagh f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sexliv n, seksualliv n

  Nynorsk: sexliv n, seksualliv n

• Polish: życie seksualne n
• Portuguese: vida sexual f
• Russian: сексуа́льная жизнь f (sɛksuálʹnaja žiznʹ)
• Spanish: vida sexual f
• Swedish: sexliv (sv) n
• Turkish: cinsel yaşam, cinsel hayat, seks hayatı