'carnal appetite' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to strong sexual desires or cravings. Example sentence: He had no control over his carnal appetite.
His carnal appetites simply can't be curbed.
But Mr. Wen's lavish tastes were nothing compared with the carnal appetites of his sister-in-law, Xie Caiping, known as "the godmother of the Chongqing underworld".
Set in Doc and Lola's cramped, cluttered house (cannily designed by James Noone and hauntingly lighted by Jane Cox), the story centers on the disruptions caused by their boarder, Marie (Ms. Kazan), a clean-cut college student of healthy carnal appetites.
She may be a hothouse neurotic (she writes about herself in the third person in her journal), but she's no fluttery Blanche DuBois, hiding carnal appetites beneath a veil of gentility.
Brecht's first play, about an amoral poet with insatiable carnal appetites who corrupts everyone he comes in contact with, is given a raw and raucous production by Jim Simpson and his fledgling Bat Theater Company.
Hackford's film begins amusingly enough, with the teenager scamming a bus ride from Florida to Seattle by pretending that his blindness is the result of a war wound, but there is no attempt to gloss over his ruthlessness in matters of business or the sometimes unhappy consequences of his carnal appetites.
In that sense he had some way to go to match the carnal appetites of Eric Gill, who was revealed in Fiona MacCarthy's 1989 biography as having intimate relations with his sisters, his daughters and practically anything else that took his fancy.
The number of prostitutes in London grew exponentially, but they came to be regarded less as wicked sirens and more as victims of men's carnal appetites who deserved not punishment but pity and, when possible, salvation and reform by charitable institutions".The Origins of Sex" is a splendidly informative and entertaining book, but Mr Dabhoiwala leaves us with quite a few frustratingly loose ends.
