Sexology, interdisciplinary science that focuses on diverse aspects of human sexual behaviour and sexuality, including sexual development, relationships, intercourse, sexual dysfunction, sexually transmitted diseases, and pathologies such as child sexual abuse or sexual addiction.
Early on, Zhu had emphasized the need to attain a working knowledge of the constitutive patterning (li) of reality and society in the light of which the norms and ritual action (li) prescribed for proper interpersonal relationships and intercourse are devised.
But the mechanics (particularly the relationship between intercourse and pregnancy) already appear to be starkly absent from many young people's schooling.
On 17 August 1998, Clinton testified before the grand jury that his deposition in the Jones case had been accurate because of what he had thought the definition of "sexual relations" had been in the case, and that Lewinsky's affidavit had been accurate because a sexual relationship includes intercourse and they had not had it.
To investigate the relationship among intercourse compliance, ovulation, and the occurrence of pregnancy in the Reproductive Medicine Network's Pregnancy in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (RMNPPCOS) Trial.
Similarly, given the ambiguous relationship of intercourse and VCD, we thus tend to emphasise to our patients that from a clinical point of view they themselves are not to blame for this embarrassing event.
Moreover, by grasping the defining patterns (li) of relationship and intercourse that constitute the world, society, people, and proper conduct, one gains the master key to acting with utmost propriety (zhongyong).
That is, one first learns facts about the building blocks of the world and human life, e.g., what things are, what they mean, how they fit together; then, gradually, one gains insights into the broader patterns of relationship and intercourse that comprise the world and human life and that eventually afford sensitive glimpses of the inner root as well as the larger picture.
While this study is a step forward in understanding the nature of the relationship between intercourse during early adolescence and negative outcomes, the study was limited in its examination of only one psychosocial factor.
"HIV risk" factors such as number of sexual partners, length of relationship, anal intercourse modality with a current regular partner, and condom use with casual partners were associated with recent HIV testing behaviour.
For a significant minority – and this is true of both heterosexual and homosexual relationships – traditional genital intercourse is being replaced by other, less mainstream behaviours.
