promiscuity

Example Sentences

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In each of these examples, the concern is ostensibly about promiscuity and irresponsibility, but is in fact a repudiation of women’s power and autonomy, Lomax explained.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2021

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

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

For one, remind those who say the HPV vaccine will increase promiscuity in teens that they were required to vaccinate their infants and children against hepatitis B, which is a sexually transmitted virus.

From Scientific American • Mar. 5, 2020

We are thus concerned here with very complex questions which have nothing to do with promiscuity.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste