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Discover LudwigThe word "libido" is correct and usable in written English
This word often refers to a person's sex drive, so it is usually used in a more casual context. For example, "My libido has been stronger than usual lately".
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libido
noun
Sexual urges or drives.
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Burt Lancaster is a clean-cut cop trying to redirect Scott's libido.
I feel demeaned as a woman; my own libido has now disappeared, crushed by years of rejection.
One small study showed improvement in libido and hot flushes in 15 women given nutrition and lifestyle advice and a tailor-made herbal prescription, compared with a control group.
Parrish said she began experiencing low libido during her second marriage and therefore decided to participate in the clinical trial.
Almost as soon as the wedding service was over your libido, which was never that high, plummeted.
Against the intrinsic disorder of the human libido he proposed to reinforce, like a fortress, the institutions of family and marriage and the virtues of fidelity and chastity.
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But even hit-men have libidos.
Men worry about their libidos.
In "The Signification of the Phallus," Lacan explicitly addresses, and criticizes, the alternative view that there might be two libidos, which he satirizes as a kind of sexual equality, the "equality of natural rights" (Lacan 2006 [1970], 577).
"Character-Formation on the Genital Level of Libido-Development," also contained in the Selected Papers, is a translation of his last major paper (1925).
She was advised also to pray for her husband's finances, health, wives and libido.Not that Mr Zuma, father of at least 21 children by ten different women, needs to fret about the last.
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