coitive

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Adjective

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coitive (not comparable)

  1. Of, or pertaining to copulation.
    • 1982, John Alfred Atkins, Sex in Literature: High noon: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, page 220:
      Such men are rarely able to satisfy women, partly because the coitive friction is insufficient and partly because their coitive urges are slight.
    • 1996, Gail Hawkes, Sociology Of Sex And Sexuality, →ISBN, page 57:
      Biologically determined coitive heterosexuality was seen as the norm.
    • 2001, Wendy McElroy, Individualist Feminism of the Nineteenth Century, →ISBN, page 74:
      We do not aim to eliminate Sex Love, or to suppress its manifestations; but we wish to foster & encourage it; we wish to make real love & true affection take the place of so much depletive, demoralizing, coitive love.
    • 2016, O. Phelps Brown, The Complete Herbalist, →ISBN, page 428:
      No coitive act should be completed when it requires fatiguing efforts to accomplish it.
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