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1661 Etymology dictionary, p. Eros (n.).3
… and sexual pleasure" is from 1922. Ancient Greek distinguished four ways of love: erao "to be in love with, to desire passionately or sexually;" phileo "have affection …
1662 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 …
1663 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).
1664 Etymology dictionary, p. escort (n.).2
… for sexual services by 1974.
1665 Etymology dictionary, p. estrus (n.).2
… animals, sexual heat." Earliest use in English (1690s) was for "a gadfly." Related: Estrous (1900).
1666 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."
1667 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.
1668 Etymology dictionary, p. feel (n.).2
… "a sexual grope" is from 1932; from verbal phrase to feel (someone) up (1930).
1669 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 …
1670 Etymology dictionary, p. fellowship (n.).2
… for "sexual intercourse" ( carnal fellowship ).
1671 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).
1672 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 .
1673 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).
1674 Etymology dictionary, p. fetishism (n.).3
Related: Fetishist (1845; psycho-sexual sense from 1897); fetishistic .
1675 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 …
1676 Etymology dictionary, p. flesh (n.).4
… for "sexual intercourse."
1677 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).
1678 Etymology dictionary, p. fool (v.).2
… "have sexual adventures."
1679 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:
1680 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 …