sex-ridden

English

Etymology

sex +‎ ridden

Adjective

sex-ridden (comparative more sex-ridden, superlative most sex-ridden)

1. Excessively concerned with or driven by sex.
   • 1940, George Orwell, “Boys’ Weeklies” in Inside the Whale, London: Victor Gollancz, p. 96,^[1]

     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.

   • 1987, Ezra Bowen, “Are Student Heads Full of Emptiness?”, Time, 17 August, 1987,^[2]

     […] 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 […]

   • 2014, Alexandra Schwartz, “The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs,” The New Yorker, 2 June, 2014,^[3]

     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.