sex-ridden

comparative more sex-ridden · superlative most sex-ridden

1. Excessively concerned with or driven by sex.

   When the Gem and Magnet were started it is probable that there was a deliberate intention to get away from the guilty sex-ridden atmosphere that pervaded so much of the earlier literature for boys.

   1940, George Orwell, “Boys’ Weeklies”, in Inside the Whale, London: Victor Gollancz, page 96

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   […] higher education has failed to keep the flame of true learning or guide today’s students, many of whom appear to Bloom to be sex-ridden moneygrubbers marching to the beat of rock music […]

   1987 August 17, Ezra Bowen, “Are Student Heads Full of Emptiness?”, in Time, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2013

   In Philip Roth’s “Zuckerman Unbound,” Zuckerman, rocketed to fame and fortune by a book that looks a lot like “Portnoy’s Complaint,” is set upon by anyone and everyone in New York—on the bus, in a coffee shop, in front of a funeral parlor. They come to ogle him, or to complain about his scandalous, sex-ridden novel, or to tell him what to do with his money.

   2014 June 2, Alexandra Schwartz, “The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs”, in The New Yorker