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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

These two were having intercourse, in the old-fashioned sense of the word.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025

From dawn to dusk, observant Muslims the world over will refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual intercourse.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024

Arthur said: "After all, Galahad is only a child! He has growing pains, perhaps. I don’t think we ought to judge him unkindly for little faults of social intercourse."

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

There is a maxim extremely in vogue in the ordinary intercourses of society, which deserves to be noticed here, for the purpose of exposing it to merited condemnation.

From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by William Godwin

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

In all the intercourses of her family, since the first rough usage which she remembered, there had never been anything sweet or gracious. 

From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

Yet to me it seemed that the lads actually sought to avoid these casual intercourses.

From Fibble, D.D. by Tony Sarg

Here he spent the rest of days in devotional exercises in friendly intercourses with other Sufis and in religious instruction of the young.

From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Claud Field