The word 'premarital' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to activities, such as sexual intercourse, that occur before marriage. For example, you could use the sentence: "Many religious traditions frown upon premarital sex."
Across the state teenagers were warned that premarital sex could lead to divorce, suicide, poverty and a disappointed God.
The frustrations they experience as they turn into adults notably the years of "waithood" that are typical before they find jobs and, therefore, before they can marry and enjoy sex (premarital relations are taboo in much of the Arab world)—are hardly the stuff of which political revolutions are generally made.
Excellent access to contraception for married couples and extremely low rates of premarital sex ensure that unplanned births are rare.
After a decade as foreign minister, she now serves in his cabinet as minister for home affairs.Meanwhile, the indefatigable Mr Zuma has just completed an exchange of premarital gifts with Gloria Bongi Ngema, who works for IBM in Johannesburg and has a young son by the president.
The proliferation of programmes to change attitudes towards premarital sex and childbearing must have helped.
Fifty-three percent of the teens in the pledge group said they had engaged in premarital sex compared with 57 percent of those who hadn't taken the pledge.
When they balked at Hamas demands that they should register with Hamas ministries, submit financial reports and pay a fee (which, under America's anti-terrorism laws, could be construed as sponsoring terror and cost them their funding), Hamas closed down the largest one, Sharek, on the pretext that its youth groups encouraged premarital sex.
In one, a young man gives his girlfriend a rose and tries to persuade her to have premarital sex.
Greater acceptance of premarital intercourse and easier divorce mean fewer frustrated single and married men turning to prostitutes.Dearer for johnsOur analysis shows how a prostitute's hourly rate varies according to the nature of the services she provides and her reported physical characteristics.
It looks at how 40 countries judge the morality of controversial issues from abortion and premarital sex to contraception and divorce.
And it is also convenient for religious lobbyists who believe that premarital sex is a sin.
