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Does that mean touching her skin or intercourse?
I would have blushed beet red if we had talked about masturbation or intercourse.
The Times stylebook says to use it to mean "forced intercourse, or intercourse with a child below the age of consent".
Late at night, in a serious discussion programme, the critic employed it in a specific, sexual sense, for which "love-making" or "intercourse" would not be a sufficient synonym.
Someone reading "Native Son," Baldwin complained, would think that "in Negro life there exists no tradition, no field of manners, no possibility of ritual or intercourse" by which black Americans could sustain themselves in a hostile world.
In North American studies of the drug in premenopausal women, patients using flibanserin reported an average of nearly one more satisfying sexual event per month -- oral sex, say, or intercourse -- than women taking a daily sugar pill.
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Other symptoms include pain with urination or sexual intercourse, or pelvic pain.
It may be transmitted by injection or sexual intercourse or pass from a mother to her baby during birth.
Sex was defined as "any mutually voluntary activity with another person that involves sexual contact, whether or not intercourse or orgasm occurs".
NSHAP defined sexual activity for respondents as "any mutually voluntary activity with another person that involves sexual contact, whether or not intercourse or orgasm occurs".
†Defined as insertive or receptive vaginal or anal intercourse.
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