Meanings
- not comparableRelated to sex or sex-seeking, without being explicitly sexual.
Ritual beatings were his first perisexual experiences, and they are vividly and enthusiastically remembered and described in his letters.
1965, Jeremy Mitchell, “Swinburne - The Disappointed Protagonist”, in Yale French Studies, volume 35, →JSTOR, pages 81–882 more examples
Since he has just clarified the Edo tendency to distinguish between perisexual and sexual acts, convincingly showing that male-male sexual acts were not problematized before the Meiji period, his position on this issue is not particularly persuasive.
2000, Margaret H. Childs, “(Review of) Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950 by Gregory M. Pflugfelder”, in Monumenta Nipponica, volume 55, number 3, →JSTOR, pages 443–445A number of sociocultural and peri-sexual behaviours and practices were thought to be important in determining the epidemiology of STI among the students.
2016, Whiti Cecilia, Knowledge, perception and status of sexual health among students at Morgenster Teachers’ College, Masvingo District, Zimbabwe (thesis)
Origin
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