"sexual attachment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to an emotional bond that develops between two people who engage in a sexual relationship. For example, "The sexual attachment between the two was stronger than either of them expected."
And the sisters' intimate companionship develops into an incestuous sexual attachment.
But Henry conveyed well Frank's disillusion with his own unfulfilled poetic career and delicately hinted at the character's emotional and sexual attachment to his sparky protege.
Edward Westermarck, in full Edward Alexander Westermarck, (born Nov. 20, 1862, Helsinki, Fin. died Sept. 3, 1939, Lapinlahti), Finnish sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist who denied the widely held view that early humans had lived in a state of promiscuity and instead theorized that the original form of human sexual attachment had been monogamy.
After about 15 years of marriage, the idea of going for decades more without experiencing authentic romantic and sexual attachment was finally too great a burden to bear ― for both of them, the couple said. .
Ten years later, they divorced, and, as if to dilute the ever-festering wound of deep sexual attachment, he began work on the thousands of sex partners his life would consist of.
Ten years later they divorced, and, as if to dilute the ever-festering wound of deep sexual attachment, he began work on the thousands of shags his life would consist of.
But if Cocteau's sexual attachments, his opium habit and his sometime affairs with aristocratic women cost him respect, his attitude toward Germany proved equally costly.
Ms. Savigneau attributes McCullers's craving for attention to this immaturity and suggests that the writer's infatuations with a succession of men and women were less sexual attachments than childlike efforts to find someone to take care of her.
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that oxytocin — often referred to as "the love hormone" because of its importance in the formation and maintenance of strong mother-child and sexual attachments — is involved in a broader range of social interactions than previously understood.
The Stoics did, in fact, hold that emotions like fear or envy (or impassioned sexual attachments, or passionate love of anything whatsoever) either were, or arose from, false judgements and that the sage a person who had attained moral and intellectual perfection would not undergo them.
Brendan Coyle as Mickey also presents a figure of burly authority who slowly crumbles before our eyes, and who seems to have a quasi-sexual attachment to Colin Morgan as the group's fall guy.
