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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. 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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Created as complementary sexual beings, man and woman become an ontological unity through attachment (cleaving) to each other in the one-flesh sexual union of marriage. For example, a man and woman receive one another bodily through the act of sexual intercourse, which is why sexual union is called the marriage act. That intimacy is rooted in self-revelation, not in sexual union only. |
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