intercourse
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Procedures that appear scary and unnatural to many can feel novel and exciting to science-obsessed computer nerds: IVF can seem “safer” than conceiving via intercourse because it’s monitored by scientists.
From Slate ● May 7, 2024
From dawn to dusk, observant Muslims the world over will refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual intercourse.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
The WHO defines infertility as a disease of the male or female reproductive system that is defined by the failure to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse.
From Reuters ● Apr. 4, 2023
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
She still rang the house telephone to the morning-room every day and submitted the menu to me as a matter of form, but that was the limit of our intercourse.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
There is in mankind a universal contract implied in all their intercourses....
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry
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 Field, Claud
It is asserted, that they understand each other in their commercial intercourses.
From An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 by Hewatt, Alexander
Yet to me it seemed that the lads actually sought to avoid these casual intercourses.
From Fibble, D.D. by Sarg, Tony
In his intercourses with the queen of Scots as ambassador from Elizabeth, he had already shown himself her zealous partisan.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy
