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sexual intercourseor coitus or copulationAct 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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Requiring the state to enforce all agreements to which citizens freely bind themselves, which they themselves demand that the state enforce, might even lead to the courts' having to uphold the bylaws of Normal Coition League whose members bound themselves to accept any sodomy on their own part such penalties as that association deemed right for members freely belonging. Extrapolations from the mechanics of heterosexual coition are at the root of such formulations, with "penetrability" constructed as a fundamentally female trait in Roman humor. Interestingly, while Sula here undermines God as monolith, she later seeks an unfallen language to describe the loneliness she seeks in coition - |
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