promiscuity

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And in Venezuela, physicians say parents and governments also resist the vaccine due to cultural taboos and the false notion that girls will see it as a ticket to promiscuity.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2024

Written after a breakup with a boyfriend, its stylistic promiscuity mirrors his own journey to self-acceptance.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2022

These machines, called spectrum analysers, discovered a strange disturbance in the force, if you’ll pardon the franchise-reference promiscuity.

From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2020

This same concern has been studied for the HPV vaccine, with the exact same finding: no increase in promiscuity postvaccination.

From Scientific American • Mar. 5, 2020

Marriage.—Theories of primitive marriage; promiscuity; polygamy; polyandry; monogamy.

From Anthropology As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States by Brinton, Daniel Garrison