The phrase "act of penetration" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing physical, metaphorical, or psychological penetration, such as in medical, scientific, or literary discussions.
Example: "The act of penetration during the experiment was crucial for understanding the material's properties."
Alternatives: "process of penetration" or "instance of penetration".
But the show's go-to wound is the puncture: the act of penetration.
But, where Mamet's play was an act of penetration, Rebeck's is an act of prestidigitation, a confidence trick.
As for the rape scene, its horror is focused not on the act of penetration but on the preceding struggle, during which Blanche is stripped, manhandled and degraded by Stanley to become an abject thing.
To do so would require not only political will, but also a change to Pakistan's hudood ordinance, which requires either a confession by the rapist or the eyewitness testimony of four Muslim adult males to the act of penetration.
In plain English, that means that the act of penetration lasts for more than three minutes, a strategy that helps the male impregnate the female while keeping her away from competing males.
When Manu (Raffaela Anderson and Nadine Karen Lancoumeme), a pair of young Frenchwomen, are raped together, their violation is shown in explicit detail; there is no being spared the horrific act of penetration because the filmmakers don't cut away.
Not only that: in almost every case, their joy in being able to watch the deployment of their limbs and fleshy extremities in acts of penetration and emission swiftly turned to dismay as the resulting private footage was released commercially, to be gawped at by prurient members of the public.
Defined as a direct contact sexual offence committed by offender or suffered by victim (e.g. two acts of penetration = two incidents).
As for Section 74, if Chloe was blindfolded, and lied to over and over, was she really free to consent to what was being put inside her? That's why, though Chloe said the intimacy – the foreplay – the pair shared made her feel sick, it was the acts of penetration which saw Newland convicted.
Schulhofer (1998) argues, in a similar vein, that the law should recognize two different offenses: sexual assault, which involves the use of "physical force to compel another person to submit to an act of sexual penetration" (283); and sexual abuse, a lesser (though still felonious) crime, which involves sexual penetration without the other person's affirmative and freely given consent.
Justice Stein also wrote that the court was troubled by the lack of evidence to support the charge that J. G., as a 10-year-old, had committed an act of sexual penetration on his cousin.
