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

A cursory synopsis of Ira Sachs’s drama reveals the plot points that once haunted sanctimonious, homophobic novels and movies about gay life: promiscuity, addiction, lies, anomie — look at these poor people!

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 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

But what remains are his open eyes, his wry smile, a seeming promiscuity in thought and the sense of how blessed we were to be guided by one of the best poets of our time.

From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2017

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