sexual relations en · NOUN
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(idiomatic, plural, plural-only) Sexual activity.
Our emphasis at this point is on the use of abusive sex in sexual relations as a selling technique. Of course we're not interested in seeing women objectivized in [non-violent] sexual ways for purposes of selling anything, but the immediate protest is to get rid of the violence...The images [on album covers] are part of an environment that trivializes brutality against women.
1976 December 25, Julia London, quotee, “Boycotting Records”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 2:There may be an actual distaste for sexual relations for a week or so prior to the period, perhaps as part of a picture of general irritability and vague feelings of discomfort of which some women complain; the name "premenstrual tension" has been applied to this.
1950, Louis Portnoy, Jules Saltman, Fertility in Marriage: A Guide for the Childless:I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.
1998, Bill Clinton, televised speech (part of Clinton–Lewinsky scandal)
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(form-of, plural) plural of sexual relation
form of sexual relation
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Translations (6)
fi sukupuolikontakti (act of sexual intercourse) · es relaciones sexuales (act of sexual intercourse) · cmn 性關係 /性关系 (act of sexual intercourse) · pt relações sexuais (act of sexual intercourse) · ko 성관계 (act of sexual intercourse) · th เพศสัมพันธ์ (act of sexual intercourse)