Word: coitus
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...dictum of St. Augustine, permitting "only those sexual relations which are necessary to procreation," a man could not expect to have intercourse more than 55 times in his life. But the late Alfred C. Kinsey's studies indicated that the average American has intercourse 5,500 times, leaving coitus with procreative intent at a mere 1%. Dr. S. Leon Israel of the University of Pennsylvania believes that this is ten times too high-that conception is specifically planned in no more than one incident of coitus out of a thousand. In a logical deduction, Dr. Edris Rice-Wray...
...intercourse seldom or unpredictably, a one-shot birth-control pill is being developed for use the day afterward. Yale University's Dr. John McLean Morris has given large doses of one of the standard estrogens to more than 100 women for four or five days immediately after unwanted coitus-in many cases from rape or incest. There have been no pregnancies. In the absence of any short-order pregnancy test, no one knows how many there would have been without the medication, and the drug produces severe side effects (bleeding, clotting, nausea) when used this way. But the idea...
Rehabilitated Words. After making a sweeping summation of theological, psychiatric and medical findings on human sexuality, the committee concluded that coitus is the ultimate "expression of the whole marriage relationship," cementing love, relieving psychological tensions and contributing "to personal fulfillment and integration." But the committee refused to endorse the Biblical ban against fornication, which it found occasionally permissible, as when it is part of a "total encounter" between consenting adults...
...double-A time, you know, people eating TV dinners on trays and ali. And the announcer said, 'Father Boyd, are you in favor of premarital sex?' And I replied in the only honest way I could: 'Do you mean masturbation, petting to orgasm, or coitus?' And he said, 'We must pause now for a commercial...
...short hairs are best ignored. His excursions into philosophy, all taken in Jean-Paul Sartre's second-class compartment, begin at the level of the college bull session and follow a descending route. "Coitus interruptus is evil," announces Mailer in the course of a Playboy magazine panel discussion on sex. Food has a soul, he writes; fresh food has more soul than canned food. Terminal cancer cases can be arrested by reading William Burroughs: "Bet money on that." The now-notorious Mailer sense of smell, which got such a bloodhound workout in his last novel, An American Dream...