nonsexual

/ nɒnˈsɛksjʊəl /

adjective

1. not of, relating to, or characterized by sex or sexuality

Example Sentences

The number fell off sharply after the California policy known as realignment in 2011, which shifted many people who were convicted of nonserious, nonviolent and nonsexual offenses from California state prisons to county jails.

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They are prohibited from retaliating against performers who request the presence of an intimacy coordinator for any scene, sexual or nonsexual, and must take those requests seriously.

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It’s more demonstrating the tension their nonsexual intimacy creates in the rest of their lives and, as a viewer, you find yourself asking how you would react or feel about the dynamic.

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The movie, they argue, is more proof that it’s impossible to keep things nonsexual — especially if she’s hot.

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These same connections have recently been shown to shape nonsexual social connections in lab mice, and the new results suggest some common mechanisms of social attachments across both species and categories of bonds.

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