English > sexual practice: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | Activities associated with sexual intercourse. |
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| Synonyms | sexual activity, sex, sex activity |
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| Attributes | heterosexual | sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex |
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| homosexual | sexually attracted to members of your own sex |
| Narrower | autoeroticism, autoerotism | Using you own body as a sexual object |
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| bestiality, zooerastia, zooerasty, sodomy | sexual activity between a person and an animal |
| bisexuality | sexual activity with both men and women |
| bondage | sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners |
| carnal abuse | Any lascivious contact by an adult with the sexual organs of a child (especially not involving sexual intercourse) |
| conception | The act of becoming pregnant |
| coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union | The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes |
| foreplay, arousal, stimulation | mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse |
| heterosexuality, heterosexualism, straightness | A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex |
| homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, queerness, gayness | A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex |
| lechery | unrestrained / unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity |
| outercourse | sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration |
| perversion, sexual perversion | An aberrant sexual practice |
| pleasure | sexual gratification / gratification |
| promiscuity, promiscuousness, sleeping around | indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations |
| reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life | The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring |
| safe sex | sexual activity (especially sexual intercourse) with the use of measures (such as latex condoms) to avoid the transmission of disease (especially AIDS) |
| sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge | The act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman |
| sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love life | sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people |
| Broader | bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity | An organic process that takes place in the body |
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| Spanish | relaciones sexuales, relación, sexo |
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| Catalan | relacions sexuals, sexe |
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