Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of hate sex.
It was the same thing in both cases, revenge. Not real sex, hate-sex.
1975, Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Random House, published 1984, page 3773 more examples
Fleming's phantasy sex in the novels is essentially based on his own cold and detached sex in his love-affairs, not on his real relationship with the woman he loved: it is hate-sex not love-sex and is prompted by fear.
1972, David Holbrook, The masks of hate: the problem of false solutions in the culture of an acquisitive society, Pergamon Press, page 128An investigation into human sexual behavior reveals four different modes of erotic involvement: sex between lovers, called “love-sex”; “money-sex” including all relationships motivated by the desire for material gain; casual or “like-sex”; and “hate-sex”, which includes rape.
c. 1984, The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States, volume 1, American Film Institute, published 1999, page 369When Ray meets lecture-mate and former one-night stand Tanya Skagle (Jane Adams) and endures a sweaty bout of hate-sex with her, they both realise exactly what his marketable tool is.
2009 August 1, Jonathan Bernstein, “Jonathan Bernstein's aerial view of America”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC
Cite this entry
hate-sex. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hate-sex
“hate-sex.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hate-sex. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hate-sex,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hate-sex.
Source: hate-sex on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.