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the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
the mating of some species occurs only in the spring
the casual couplings of adolescents
How To Use sexual union In A Sentence
- My analysis of the particular qualities of the institution shows that it may well extend to cover a homosexual union.
- In both sexual union is easily followed by reproduction, and future heterosexual coupling is envisaged as fertile.
- Augustine did not accept the old notions, popular among gnostic sects of the second century, that the Fall consisted in the serpent's seduction of Eve or that Adam and Eve fell by having sexual union before the proper time.
- In the mythologies that have come down to us, many cultures express this as a sexual union.
- It is as though all traces of eroticism have been whitewashed out of the movie's principal heterosexual union.
- Like Roberts, Barker propels us into the embodied life of ritual and, again like the mystics, analogises God's love for humanity as a sexual union.
- Instances are not unknown, when all is said and done, of apostatic sexual union not only not diminishing Judaism but actually enhancing it. Kalooki Nights
- So his position is arguably one of fideism regarding his church's official teaching on homosexual unions - which I do not feel entirely comfortable with.
- But some clergy had questioned whether church ceremonies - and the term matrimony - should be reserved for heterosexual unions. Latest Articles
- Even the Canonists themselves were never able to put forward any coherent and consistent ground for the indissolubility of matrimony which could commend itself rationally, while Luther and Milton and Wilhelm von Humboldt, who maintained the religious and sacred nature of sexual union -- though they were cautious about using the term sacrament on account of its ecclesiastical implications -- so far from believing that its sanctity involved indissolubility, argued in the reverse sense. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society