lost sex:

Womankind. A cliché of the 1950s defined in the following quotation.

QUOTE: Amanda Penrose (Ann Sheridan) to Sylvia Fowler (Dolores Gray) in The Opposite Sex (1956):
-- Amanda : ' She's a woman .'
-- Sylvia: ' And what are we? '
-- Amanda : ' Females. The lost sex substituting fashion for passion and the analyst's couch for the double bed .'

See Also: break in the balls, broken her teacup, burn out, daisy chain, has-been, lose it, lost sex, medomalacuphobia, mess with nature, mizuko-jizo, sexobatics, tempasthenic, transexion

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