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sex act

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noun

sexual intercourse; copulation.

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copulation, fornication, intercourse, intimacy, procreation, sex, coition, coitus, relations

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Examples from the Web for sex act

As I understand Herr Bachofen, the sex-act was the means which first opened up ways to great heights, but also to great depths.
The Position of Woman in Primitive Society|C. Gasquoine Hartley
In this connexion it may be well to call attention to the inconsistency of the male in making the sex-act a subject for humour.
An Outline of Sexual Morality|Kenneth Ingram
The word thus called forth by the common labor had two meanings, designating the sex-act as well as the equivalent labor-activity.
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis|Sigmund Freud
If the sex-act is evil because it is physical, then it is equally evil to eat or drink.
An Outline of Sexual Morality|Kenneth Ingram

It Changes the sex-act from an incident or a result to a means or a cause.
An Outline of Sexual Morality|Kenneth Ingram