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Sexual union

noun

The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes. Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, union. "The mating of some species occurs only in the spring"

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"Sexual union" Quotes from Famous Books

... were confined strictly to the female parent, and the procreative instinct were the legitimate inheritance of the male only, we could never hope for a perfect sexual union, for the very cogent reason that the love of the male would never equal that of the female, since our ...

— Sex=The Unknown Quantity - The Spiritual Function of Sex • Ali Nomad

... — N. sex, sexuality, gender; male, masculinity, maleness &c 373; female, femininity &c 374. sexual intercourse, copulation, mating, coitus, sex; lovemaking, marital relations, sexual union; sleeping together, carnal knowledge. sex instinct, sex drive, libido, lust, concupiscence; hots, horns [Coll.]; arousal, heat, rut, estrus, oestrus; tumescence; erection, hard-on, boner. masturbation, self-gratification, autoeroticism, onanism, self- abuse. orgasm, climax, ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... this stage of thought cannot have, in theory at all events, the repugnance to a sexual union between man and the lower animals with which religious training and the growth of civilization have impressed all the higher races. Such peoples admit the possibility of a marriage wherein one party may be human and the other ...

— The Science of Fairy Tales - An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology • Edwin Sidney Hartland

Words linked to "Sexual union" : inbreeding, sexual activity, disassortative mating, hybridisation, conjugation, sex, service, hybridization, crossbreeding, assortative mating, hybridizing, sex activity, sexual practice, interbreeding, servicing, crossing, union, coupling, cross