sex act

[ seks akt ]

noun

1. an act of physical intimacy between two people for sexual pleasure or gratification, usually involving genital, oral, or anal contact.
2. Usually the sex act. sexual intercourse; coitus.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sex act¹

First recorded in 1880–90

Example Sentences

It makes “trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age” a federal crime.

From No Straight News

In short, to legally qualify as sex trafficking, a sex act involving an adult must include “force, fraud, and coercion.”

From No Straight News

The incident happened in October when an 80-year-old man said he awoke to find Jureti “performing a sex act on him in his home,” according to a police statement.

From Washington Post

A San Diego Sheriff’s deputy was arrested for alleged molestation and luring a child into a sex act, the Union-Tribune reports.

From Voice of San Diego

When she refused, he then demanded a male employee follow suit before simulating “an oral sex act with him.”

From The Daily Beast

And this masochistic sex act, delivered by none other than the princess from Enchanted, is just the tip of the … iceberg.

From The Daily Beast

Nowhere in the article was a sex act mentioned and both Schon and Michaele deny any occurred.

From The Daily Beast

On the tape, he performs a sex act on Monsignor Barbosa, whose face is clearly visible.

From The Daily Beast

Did you emerge from this project with a favorite insect sex act?

From The Daily Beast

In principle the sole occupation of any creature is to renew, by the sex act, the form wherewith it is clothed.

From Project Gutenberg

What must be taking place in the female system as a result of the completed sex act?

From Project Gutenberg

The word thus called forth by the common labor had two meanings, designating the sex-act as well as the equivalent labor-activity.

From Project Gutenberg

If the sex-act is evil because it is physical, then it is equally evil to eat or drink.

From Project Gutenberg

It Changes the sex-act from an incident or a result to a means or a cause.

From Project Gutenberg