presexual

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ sexual.

Adjective

presexual (not comparable)

  1. Not yet capable of sexual reproduction.
    • 2002, Anna Krugovoy Silver, Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body, page 92:
      In fact, the only females in the novel who do not practice extreme repression in one form or another are presexual girls.
  2. Before sexual intercourse.
    • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 97:
      The Boomeroo Bulls were not only well and truly pissed but loving one another so much they seemed to be forever in one of their coracle-like prosexual scrums.
    • 1992, Richard Price, Clockers:
      He was filled with the presexual rush of affection that felt like love […]
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