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1601 Etymology dictionary, p. erogenous (adj.).2
… or sexual desire," 1889, from Greek eros "sexual love" (see Eros ) + -genous "producing." A slightly earlier variant was erogenic (1887), from French érogénique. Both, as …
1602 Etymology dictionary, p. erotic (adj.).2
1650s, from French érotique (16c.), from Greek erotikos "caused by passionate love, referring to love," from eros (genitive erotos ) "sexual love" (see Eros ). Earlier form was erotical (1620s).
1603 Etymology dictionary, p. escort (n.).2
… for sexual services by 1974.
1604 Etymology dictionary, p. estrus (n.).2
… animals, sexual heat." Earliest use in English (1690s) was for "a gadfly." Related: Estrous (1900).
1605 Etymology dictionary, p. explicit (adj.).3
As a euphemism for "pornographic" it dates from 1971 (phrases such as sexually explicit are earlier). Related: Explicitness. "Explicitus" was written at the end of medieval books, originally short for explicitus est liber "the book is unrolled."
1606 Etymology dictionary, p. fact (n.).6
Facts of life is by 1854 as "the stark realities of existence;" by 1913 it had also acquired a more specific sense of "knowledge of human sexual functions." The alliterative pairing of facts and figures for "precise information" is by 1727.
1607 Etymology dictionary, p. feel (n.).2
… "a sexual grope" is from 1932; from verbal phrase to feel (someone) up (1930).
1608 Etymology dictionary, p. fellatio (n.).2
… ." The sexual partner performing fellatio is a fellator; if female, a fellatrice or fellatrix. L.C. Smithers' 1884 translation from German of Forberg's "Manual …
1609 Etymology dictionary, p. fellowship (n.).2
… for "sexual intercourse" ( carnal fellowship ).
1610 Etymology dictionary, p. feminism (n.).2
1851, "qualities of females;" 1895, "advocacy of women's rights;" from French féminisme (1837); see feminine + -ism. Also, in biology, "development of female secondary sexual characteristics in a male" (1875).
1611 Etymology dictionary, p. fetish (n.).5
Figurative sense of "something irrationally revered, object of blind devotion" appears to be an extension made by the New England Transcendentalists (1837). For sexual sense (1897), see fetishism .
1612 Etymology dictionary, p. fetishism (n.).2
1801, "worship of fetishes," from fetish + -ism. Expanded in use by Comte taking it to denote a general type of primitive religion (animism). In the purely psycho-sexual sense, first recorded 1897 in writings of Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939).
1613 Etymology dictionary, p. fetishism (n.).3
Related: Fetishist (1845; psycho-sexual sense from 1897); fetishistic .
1614 Etymology dictionary, p. flapper (n.).6
… of "sexually licentious woman" is by 1914, probably derived from the chorus girl/actress sense rather than the young prostitute sense (the chorus girls had …
1615 Etymology dictionary, p. flesh (n.).4
… for "sexual intercourse."
1616 Etymology dictionary, p. Flynn.2
surname, from Irish flann "red." Rhyming phrase in like Flynn is 1940s slang, said to have originated in the U.S. military, perhaps from alleged sexual exploits of Hollywood actor Errol Flynn (1909-1959).
1617 Etymology dictionary, p. fool (v.).2
… "have sexual adventures."
1618 Etymology dictionary, p. foreplay (n.).2
by 1921 in sexual sense, from fore- + play (n.); Freud's Vorlust was translated earlier as fore-pleasure (Brill, 1910). A more direct translation from the German would be thwarted by the sense drift in English lust (n.). Earlier as a theatrical term:
1619 Etymology dictionary, p. fornicate (v.).2
… illicit sexual intercourse" (said of an unmarried person), from Late Latin fornicatus, past participle of fornicari "to fornicate," from Latin fornix (genitive …
1620 Etymology dictionary, p. fox (n.).3
… . Meaning "sexually attractive woman" is from 1940s; but foxy in this sense is recorded from 1895. A fox-tail was anciently one of the badges of a fool (late 14c.).