The presence of one of the male persuasion makes me uneasy.

Or with a significant other of the male persuasion.

Soldiers and sailors being of the male persuasion, they weren't likely to end up in a family way themselves.

'Er, of the male persuasion,' said Gaspode.

This resulted in a degenerating species, at least with respect to the male persuasion.

If knitting was a tool-assisted physical game of the female persuasion, there were many others of the male persuasion.

Literature fans of the male persuasion can peruse Pushkin in the toilet.

And if she hadn't been sent to a girls' high school, she might have grown used to. . . persons of the male persuasion.

Half the English doctors of the male persuasion are so ham-handed they kill more female patients than they save, even here; good Western medicine is a rare thing there.

Mr. Sunjata is propositioned often by stage-door Johnnies of the male persuasion.