intercourse

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024

As he warned, the “logical consequences of … a decision which elevates commercial intercourse … to the same plane as has been previously reserved for the free marketplace of ideas, are far reaching indeed.”

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2023

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

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

The imagination, however, of the reader pictures to itself a man who could hardly have been a Consul at any time—one silent, lonely, uncouth, and altogether separate from the pleasant intercourses of life.

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope

Happy love restored her at once to her natural mood, lulling her to the deepest rest when she rested, and rendering her free and self-possessed in all the employments and intercourses of life.

From Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau

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

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

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

From Fibble, D.D. by Tony Sarg