retrograde ejaculation

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ejaculation of semen backward toward the bladder instead of forward through the urethra.

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The whole hand-to-the-mouth gasping thing we do when learning that women go see these films is horribly retrograde.
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But more often, the inclusion of people of color is limited or mitigated by oddly retrograde cultural politics.
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Mainline Protestant denominations are in marked decline and Evangelical Christianity is in slow retrograde.
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This, lest we forget, remains the modern prototype for a quintessentially retrograde act.
Don't Let the Maccabees Win|Matt Lerner|December 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The long-time Washington Post columnist has, again, used his valuable real estate to give retrograde opinions on race.
Read Richard Cohen Project His Racism on Social Conservatives|Jamelle Bouie|November 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
One retrograde or timid step would open the eyes of men, and bring down ruin on the Pantamorphica.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
He executes with speed, and even with ease, all direct motion; but he has no facility for oblique or retrograde motions.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
A nation cannot remain stationary; she must advance or retrograde.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863|Various
But the retrograde movement towards the gate had begun—as unreasoningly, perhaps as blindly, as the simultaneous anger.
North and South|Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
On the 10th my army, resuming its retrograde movement, crossed to the north side of Cedar Creek.
The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete|General Philip Henry Sheridan

retrograde ejaculation

Ejaculation in which the discharged seminal fluid travels up toward the bladder instead of outside the body through the urethra.