sexlike
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sexlike (comparative more sexlike, superlative most sexlike)
- Resembling sex or some aspect of it.
- 1977, Hardin B. Jones, Helen C. Jones, Sensual Drugs: Deprivation and Rehabilitation of the Mind, page 111:
- Because many drugs produce a sexlike pleasure, there is a close relationship between drug taking and sex. Both sexual and drug-induced sensations command attention and condition the brain to seek repetition of the experience.
- 1993, Robert Wesson, Beyond natural selection:
- Some bacteria occasionally have a sexlike process, or conjugation […]