promiscuity
Example Sentences
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In each of these examples, the concern is ostensibly about promiscuity and irresponsibility, but is in fact a repudiation of women’s power and autonomy, Lomax explained.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2021
A cursory synopsis of Ira Sachs’s drama reveals the plot points that once haunted sanctimonious, homophobic novels and movies about gay life: promiscuity, addiction, lies, anomie — look at these poor people!
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2020
For one, remind those who say the HPV vaccine will increase promiscuity in teens that they were required to vaccinate their infants and children against hepatitis B, which is a sexually transmitted virus.
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
We are thus concerned here with very complex questions which have nothing to do with promiscuity.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
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