sexual cycle

sexual cycle
noun
: a cycle of bodily functional and structural changes associated with sex:
c. : a cycle in many males marked by the occurrence of seasonal or annual periods of virility with intervening periods of impotence in which neither sexual impulses nor secretions occur

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