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sexual intercourse
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sexual intercourse

 or coitus or copulation

Act in which the male reproductive organ enters the female reproductive tract (see reproductive system). Various sexual activities (foreplay) lead to physiological changes that progress to orgasm (climax) and resolution (see sexual response). If it is completed, semen passes from the male into the female's body. If conditions favour fertilization, a sperm joins with an egg, and pregnancy begins (see fertility; reproduction); contraception can prevent this. Intercourse with an unwilling female is rape. See also reproductive behaviour; sexuality, human; sexually transmitted disease.

sexual intercourse
the act carried out for procreation or for pleasure in which the insertion of the male's erect penis into the female's vagina is followed by rhythmic thrusting usually culminating in orgasm; copulation; coitus


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This issue points to the coital imperative and the modern reduction of sexuality to genital intercourse with its functional order being measured in erections and ejaculations.
What a feminist can do for men's sexual pleasure by Kouri, Nadir / The Journal of Sex Research
Many of the crimes against children (oral and anal sodomy, genital intercourse, and manual abuse) committed for Kinsey's research are qualified in his own graphs and charts" (Quoted in Kupelian, p.
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Surveys that do not use such explicit language may elicit, in addition, partially completed sexual acts and other forms of sexual intimidation that do not involve genital intercourse, which may be more prevalent than penetrative intercourse.
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