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That meant LGBTQ+ and single people who historically had been shut out by definitions of infertility as a failure to conceive after six to 12 months of unprotected heterosexual intercourse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

It can cause extreme pain during periods, sexual intercourse and bowel movements, as well as pelvic pain, abdominal bloating, nausea and fatigue.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2025

She followed all the old wives’ tales—including “drugging” her husband with supplements, timing intercourse, and eating acidic foods—in an attempt to maximize the odds that her third child would be a daughter.

From Slate ● May 7, 2024

Defined as the inability of an individual to conceive within 12 months of engaging in regular unprotected intercourse, infertility impacts at least 186 million people in the world today.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2023

“Should our whole intercourse consist of an exchange of compliments? Ma foil”.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

There is in mankind a universal contract implied in all their intercourses....

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

What will be the spontaneous impression produced by looking back on bygone intercourses in life?

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

But it was in the intercourses of social life that the superiority of Opposition was most incontestable.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

He declares, not only in his official communications here, but in his private intercourses with the members of the committee, that this clause is indispensably necessary to the security and negotiability of these demand notes.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman

He threw out a reserve, encysted in which he grew to maturity unaffected by the intercourses that modify the maturity of others into the thing we call a man. 

From Shelley; an essay by Francis Thompson