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Promiscuity

See also Profligacy.

Anatol

constantly flits from one girl to another. [Aust. Drama: Schnitzler Anatol in Benét, 33]

Aphrodite

promiscuous goddess of sensual love. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 24]

Ashley, Lady Brett

forever falling in love with young men. [Am. Lit.: The Sun Also Rises]

Barbarella

scantily dressed, sex-loving, blonde astronaut. [Comics: Horn, 96]

Camille

“a woman of Paris.” [Fr. Lit.: Camille]

Compson, Candace

gave herself freely to every man she met; her illegitimate daughter became equally promiscuous. [Am. Lit.: Faulkner The Sound and the Fury in Magill I, 917]

Forrester, Mrs. Marian

traveling husband not enough to fulfill desires. [Am. Lit.: A Lost Lady]

Ganconer

fairy who makes love with, then abandons, women. [Br. Folklore: Briggs, 183–184]

Gomer

Hosea’s wanton wife. [O.T.: Hosea 1:1–3]

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Theresa Dunn haunts singles bars in a compulsive quest for the ideal lover. [Am. Lit.: Weiss, 267]

Messalina

wife of Emperor Claudius of Rome. [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Handbook, 701]

Rogers, Mildred

though a wanton, Philip loved her above all else. [Br. Lit.: Of Human Bondage; Magill I, 670–672]

Promiscuity

a term used to designate the stage of totally free relations between the sexes that allegedly preceded the establishment of marriage norms and family forms. There is no direct evidence of promiscuity among any people in antiquity, nor has it been observed in contemporary backward societies.

REFERENCES

Engels, F. “Proiskhozhdenie sem’i, chastnoi sobstvennosti i gosudarstva.” In K. Marks and F. Engels, Soch, 2nd ed., vol. 21, pp. 4041.
Semenov, Iu. I. Kak vozniklo chelovechestvo. Moscow, 1966.

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I do not believe that there was in that genteel Bohemia an intensive culture of chastity, but I do not remember so crude a promiscuity as seems to be practised in the present day.

Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

Philip was now more comfortable, for space was so limited that there were only studies for boys in the upper school, and till then he had lived in the great hall in which they all ate and in which the lower forms did preparation in a promiscuity which was vaguely distasteful to him.

Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

American promiscuity, goodness knew, had been strange to him, but it was nothing to the queerness of American criticism.

Pandora by James, Henry View in context

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