What's the difference between platonic and sexual?

Platonic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Platonical
  • (n.) A follower of Plato; a Platonist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And beneath them, Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, the only black woman in a room of images of mostly white men, is doing her best to follow Platon's directions.
  • (2) "A Platonic academy, or symposium," he says, "is a group of people sitting round a table discussing ideas, which is a great thing to do.
  • (3) All the people who Platon has photographed are used to being in control.
  • (4) Moretti has spoken previously of making criticism less like a Platonic academy, and more like a laboratory.
  • (5) Platon, born in 1968 in London, has won many international awards for his work.
  • (6) For some reason, no actual lake I visit ever measures up to the ideal platonic lake for which I yearn.
  • (7) Judge Viktor Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky, 47, and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, 54, to 14 years in a penal colony, including time already served, meaning the pair will not be free for seven more years.
  • (8) And the platonic concept of a library can be a caravan with some books in it.
  • (9) Sage's major study of neo-Platonism and English poetry was uncompleted at the time of her death.
  • (10) We are platonic adult roommates who hold hands at bars.
  • (11) Yet for a fraction of a second Platon is the one with power.
  • (12) And the first rule is, you have to be platonic first.
  • (13) Ihave the deepest sympathy for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his fellow unfortunate, Platon Lebedev .
  • (14) Earlier Platon Lebedev, Khodorkovsky's co-defendant, angrily dismissed the Kremlin charges as "rotten".
  • (15) Platon Platon’s portrait of Ahmadinejad I had an idea that all our leaders are presented to us through a veil of propaganda.
  • (16) There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love.
  • (17) Platon Lebedev, another former executive, who was jailed by a Russian court on tax-evasion charges and was released this year, is another victor.
  • (18) Photograph: Platon for the Observer And then that's it.
  • (19) On the walls are dozens of enlarged close-ups of other people who have all sat, at one time or another, for Platon , the London-born photographer who has made his name and career photographing the rich and powerful.
  • (20) This article was corrected on 22 May: the Piraeus University economics professor is Platon Tinios, not Platos

Sexual


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (2) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
  • (3) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
  • (4) The sexual dimorphism in hepatic drug metabolism found in Crl:CD-1 mice is due to the normally repressive effects of testicular androgens on the activities of hepatic monooxygenases.
  • (5) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
  • (6) For services to Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence.
  • (7) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
  • (8) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
  • (9) [5alpha-(3)H]5alpha-Androst-16-en-3-one (5alpha-androstenone) was infused at a constant rate for 180min into the spermatic artery of a sexually mature boar.
  • (10) Subjects who reported incidents of childhood sexual exploitation had lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of depression than the comparison group.
  • (11) Conclusions on phylogenetic trends of sexual dimorphism of skeletal robusticity and the effect of culture on it seem to be premature.
  • (12) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
  • (13) Most survivors reported a range of problems that they attributed to having had cancer: 35%, proven or perceived infertility; 24%, sexual problems; 31%, health and life insurance problems; 26%, a negative socioeconomic effect; and 51%, conditioned nausea, associated with visual or olfactory reminders of chemotherapy.
  • (14) This suggests that isolation increases sexual proclivity.
  • (15) Most of our adults with myelomeningocele had satisfactory sexual function.
  • (16) This preliminary study compared the level of ego development, as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), of 30 women with histories of childhood sexual victimization, and 30 women with no history of abuse.
  • (17) There is evidence that some of these problems are being addressed as new research initiatives are being undertaken both nationally and internationally that are relevant to both AIDS and sexuality.
  • (18) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
  • (19) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
  • (20) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.