David Ho (1976, p. 883) argues similarly when he claims that face should be regarded as a concept of central importance in sociology "because of the pervasiveness with which it asserts its influence in social intercourse, it is virtually impossible to think of a facet of social life to which the question of face is irrelevant".
Since Freud's establishment of the psychoanalytic situation as we now know it, psychoanalysts have been wrestling with (in some cases, escaping from) its radical unlikeness to any other human relationship, its purposeful renunciation of the niceties and decencies of ordinary human intercourse, its awesome abnormality, contradictoriness, and strain.
Although not particularly graphic in its depiction of intercourse — readers remember the corny name bestowed on Michael's reproductive organs better than the sex itself — the book, which has sold more than 3.5 million copies, remains, for better or worse, one of the most memorably erotic novels I've ever encountered.
("Politics is human intercourse at its most sublimely ridiculous and intensely vital").
Lesu couvade behaviour also applies to nonhuman propagation: while a child's parents avoid sexual intercourse after its birth, the community as a whole avoids intercourse during the pig-farrowing season.
With its frank discussion of intercourse, childbirth and lesbianism, detailed drawings of genitals and compelling first-person accounts, the book has been a medical bible for several generations of women, guiding them from menstruation and motherhood to menopause and mortality.
Comparative analysis between the two groups aimed at studying the phenomena of cultural intercourse, including its contributing factors.
Fairman establishes that most current usages of the word have connotations distinct from its meaning of sexual intercourse.
The former shows its cunning hero having intercourse with a priest's daughter, moving between prose and verse to describe the act.
