sexual intercourse
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This was the year Japan passed landmark laws to redefine rape from "forcible sexual intercourse" to "non-consensual sexual intercourse" and raised the age of consent from 13 to 16.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025
The WHO defines infertility as a disease of the male or female reproductive system that is defined by the failure to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse.
From Reuters • Apr. 4, 2023
During Ramadan, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and sexual intercourse from sunrise until sunset.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2023
In August, the police charged Bruce Lehrmann, then 26, with one count of sexual intercourse without consent in the Higgins case.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2022
His queens, though in hives deprived of males, had been fecundated, and he thence concludes that sexual intercourse is not requisite for their impregnation.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François