sex-mystery
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sex-mystery (plural sex-mysteries)
- A secret religious celebration involving sexual intercourse.
- 1884, Thomas Welton, Mental Magic: A Rationale of Thought Reading, London: George Redway, page 53:
- The ANSAIRETIC Logos is a collection of Sex Mysteries never before revealed outside the Secret Brotherhoods of the Orient, and they relate WHOLLY to the inner, higher, deeper, and recondite meanings of Sex.
- Sex conceived of as a mystical or magical phenomenon.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 81:
- What more clear than that the conjunction of Tree and Serpent is the fulfilment in nature of that sex-mystery which is so potent in the life of man and the animals?
- Lack of knowledge about sexuality and sexual behaviour resulting from a lack of sex education.
- 1925 August 13, The Western Mail, Perth, page 21, column 1:
- Women will be in a position to compete with man in every way. They will wear trousers. Rational birth control will free women for education, and quaint clothes and the sex mystery must go.
- 2021, Maurice A. Bigelow, Sex-Education: A Series of Lectures Concerning Knowledge of Sex in its Relation to Human Life[1], Beyond Books Hub:
- Sex mystery has prevented progress. The policy of maintaining mystery and secrecy concerning sex has failed with adults even more sadly than with children.