semi-erotic

Updated: May 27, 2025

To indulge the former is to be "Shandian," that is to say, coarse and carnal; to devote oneself to the latter, or, in other words, to spend one's days in semi-erotic languishings over the whole female sex indiscriminately, is to show spirituality and taste.

H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill - Sterne