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promiscuity

[prom-i-skyoo-i-tee, proh-mi-] / ˌprɒm ɪˈskyu ɪ ti, ˌproʊ mɪ- /
NOUN
lechery
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And in Venezuela, physicians say parents and governments also resist the vaccine due to cultural taboos and the false notion that girls will see it as a ticket to promiscuity.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2024

These letters, for all their promiscuity and turbulence, are a hymn to stability.

From New York Times • May 16, 2022

This same concern has been studied for the HPV vaccine, with the exact same finding: no increase in promiscuity postvaccination.

From Scientific American • Mar. 5, 2020

In this sense, the prospect of forced pregnancy and childbirth, and the physical and/or emotional pain that goes with them, is meant as a punishment for the crime of promiscuity.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2018

I have now to show how far this rejection of promiscuity affects our position with regard to mother-descent and mother-right.

From The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)