Promiscuity

Promiscuity is the practice of making relatively unselective, casual and indiscriminate choices. The term is most commonly applied to sexual behavior, where it refers to sex that is not in the framework of a steady sexual relationship, or occurs in multiple, simultaneous sexual relationships. A promiscuous person may nevertheless be quite selective in their choice of sexual partners. A common concern about promiscuity is the potential to run a higher risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including HIV ...

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• Promiscuity - Dark room
• Promiscuity - Brothels

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Promiscuous mode, Promiscuous mode - Detection

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promiscuity: The state or character of engaging in sex indiscriminantly or with many persons.

(See also: Promiscuity, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

A "dark room" in a bar, etc., takes the promiscuity somewhat further, because the darkness hardly (or not at all) allows selection of a "partner" based on visual appearance and thus on visual aspects of sexual attraction. It complicates practicing safer sex, and if people enter dressed, is also a risk regarding pickpocketing. However, for some people the lack of visual perception has a special charm, allowing one to concentrate more on other senses; it may also provide better opportunities because visual aspects that otherwise form a barrier, including tho ...

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Promiscuity, Promiscuity - Dark room, Promiscuity - Brothels

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A "dark room" in a bar, etc., takes the promiscuity somewhat further, because the darkness partly (or totally) prevents selection of a "partner" based on visual appearance and thus on visual aspects of sexual attraction. It complicates practicing safer sex, and if people enter dressed, is also a risk regarding pickpocketing. However, for some people the lack of visual perception gives a special kind of pleasure, allowing them to concentrate more on other senses; it may also provide better opportunities for some, because visual aspects that otherwise form a barrier, including tho ...

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Promiscuity, Promiscuity - Dark room, Promiscuity - Brothels

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April 30 - May Eve - Beltaine

'Beltane' means 'fire of Bel', Belinos being one name for the Sun God, whose coronation feast we now celebrate. As summer begins, weather becomes warmer, and the plant world blossoms, an exuberant mood prevails. It is a time of unabashed sexuality and promiscuity. Young people spend the entire night in the woods 'a-maying', and dance around the phallic Maypole the next morning. Older married couples may remove their wedding rings (and the restrictions they imply) for this one night. May morning is a magical time for 'wild' water (dew, flowing streams, and springs) which is collected and used to bathe in for beauty, or to drink for health. The Christian religion had only a poor substitute for the life-affirming Maypole - namely, the death-affirming cross. Hence, in the Christian calendar, this was celebrated as 'Roodmas'. In Germany, it was the feast of Saint Walpurga, or 'Walpurgisnacht'. An alternative date around May 5 (Old Beltaine), when the sun reaches 15 degrees Taurus, is sometimes employed by Covens. (The name 'Lady Day' is incorrectly assigned to this holiday by some modern traditions of Wicca.)

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In its most general sense, virginity is characterized by a state of unimpacted purity, usually stemming from a lack of experience (for example, newcomers to game Bingo could be referred to as virgins). Traditionally, virgin is used to describe a person who has not engaged in sexual intercourse. This use is traditionally restricted to a person who has not yet engaged in vaginal intercourse, but it is sometimes used to describe someone who has not engaged in sexual activities in general. Also, someone can be referred to as ...

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• Virgin - Physiology
• Virgin - In History
• Virgin - In Culture
• Virgin - Religion
• Virgin - Christianity
• Virgin - Islam
• Virgin - Judaism

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Biphobia is the fear of, discrimination against, or hatred of bisexuals. It need not include homophobia or heterophobia, because there are stereotypes that are specific to bisexuals.[1] These include, but are not limited to: promiscuity, polygamy, living the swinging lifestyle, and being confused. In some cases, bisexuals are accused of bringing sexually transmitted disease into the heterosexual community or into the lesbian community. A r ...

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Casual sex refers to promiscuous sexual activity, consisting of a range of informal sexual encounters. A hookup (colloquial American English) is casual sex activity that could consist of kissing, oral sex, and full sexual intercourse. An extended hookup oftentimes refers to prolonged instances of casual sex interactions. This is a situation in which the involved parties occasionally meet for casual sex multiple times; ...

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A rake is a stock character, a man who wastes his (usually inherited) fortune on "wine, women, and song," incurring lavish debts in the process. The rake is also frequently a cad: a man who seduces a young woman and impregnates her before leaving, often to her social or financial ruin. To call the character a rake calls attention to his promiscuity and wild spending of money; to call the character a cad implies a callous se ...

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Blonde jokes are a class of jokes which make light of the stereotype of the blonde woman (or, more rarely, blond man) as unintelligent, sexually promiscuous, or both. Like all humor based on stereotypes, blonde jokes are found offensive by some people. However, they tend not to be as controversial as racial humor or other forms of dark comedy. Many are, in fact, variations on racist jokes that have been adapted specifically to make them less offensive. A British variant of the blonde joke is the Essex girl joke, which became popular in the late 1980s, and sati ...

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• Blonde jokes - Examples
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The name Attacotti (also Atecotti, A(t)ticotti, Ategutti) appears in several late Roman texts. The historian Ammianus Marcellinus includes this ‘warlike race of men’ (bellicosa hominum natio) in a list of peoples disturbing Roman Britain c.364-7, including the Scots, Picts and Saxons. Ammianus' contemporary St. Jerome (writing c.393-7) claims that in his youth he personally saw some Attacotti in Gaul. Jerome highlights the promiscuous marriage customs and savage cannibalism of this ‘British people’ (gens BritannicaIncluding:

• Attacotti - Irish Origin Theory
• Attacotti - Pre-Celtic Origin Theory
• Attacotti - Bibliography

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Sexual abstinence is the practice of voluntarily refraining from some or all aspects of sexual activity. Common reasons to deliberately abstain from the physical expression of sexual desire include religious or philosophical reasons (eg chastity), material reasons (to prevent conception or STD transmission), lack of suitable partners, or to conform to legal injunctions. Sexual abstinence has been debated since antiquity, and has been discussed both within the heterosexual and the homosexual spheres. See Platonic love ...

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• Sexual abstinence - Premarital chastity
• Sexual abstinence - Western attitudes
• Sexual abstinence - Abstinence
• Sexual abstinence - Abstinence as a lifestyle
• Sexual abstinence - Medical aspects of abstinence
• Sexual abstinence - Religious views
• Sexual abstinence - Modern abstinence movements
• Sexual abstinence - Popularity and effectiveness
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50 First Dates (2004) is a romantic comedy starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore and directed by Peter Segal. 50 First Dates - Plot. Henry Roth (Adam Sandler), a Jewish marine veterinarian in Hawaii, meets Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore), a beautiful blonde, at breakfast. Usually a fairly promiscuous man, Henry can't get Lucy out of his mind and finds himself falling for her. They hit it off and Henry eagerly returns to the cafe the next day. Strangely, however, Lucy doesn't remember who he is. ...

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• 50 First Dates - Plot
• 50 First Dates - Critical and audience reception
• 50 First Dates - Overtaken by events
• 50 First Dates - Soundtrack album
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"Monogamy" also refers to the mating pattern in which an animal maintains a single sexual partner. Animals who exhibit monogamous relationships do so because it increases their ability to survive and hence their reproductive success. For this to be true then both mates must benefit from the relationship, and the number of young who are born and survive must be larger than the number who would survive had the pair not been monogamous. In altricial birds constant parental care is required to feed and protect young. Two parents means tha ...

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Monogamy, Monogamy - Human monogamy, Monogamy - Monogamy in the animal world

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The practice of restricting sexual contact to a single partner (married or not) for a limited period of time, ending that relationship before beginning another (though in practice there may be a brief overlapping time-period) is referred to as serial monogamy (as opposed to polyamory, swinging, etc.). Historically, monogamy was much less practised than polygamy (specifically polygyny). Mostly because of European expansion, monoga ...

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Monogamy, Monogamy - Human monogamy, Monogamy - Monogamy in the animal world

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Among human females, the hymen is a membrane, part of the vulva, which partially occludes the entrance to the vagina and which is often physically torn when the woman first engages in vaginal sexual intercourse. The presence of an intact membrane is therefore often seen as physical evidence of virginity in the broader technical sense. The absence of one, however, is not necessarily an indication of participation in sexual intercourse, since in some women the hymen is either absent from birth, or sufficiently vestigial not to be affected by s ...

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Virgin, Virgin - Physiology, Virgin - In History, Virgin - In Culture, Virgin - Religion, Virgin - Christianity, Virgin - Islam, Virgin - Judaism

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Most parents in the U.S. feel that teenagers should remain sexually abstinent, but should have access to contraception. Ninety-five percent of adults in the United States and 85 percent of teenagers think it's important that school-aged children and teenagers be given a strong message from society that they should abstain from sex until they are out of high school. Almost 60 percent of adults also think that sexually active teenagers should have access to contraception. (Source: The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy). A 1997 study found that ...

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Sex education, Sex education - Overview, Sex education - Morality of sex education, Sex education - Debate in the United States, Sex education - Lesbian gay bisexual and transgender youth, Sex education - Scientific study of sex education, Sex education - Notes

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Female virginity is closely interwoven with personal or even family honor in many cultures. Traditionally in some cultures (especially those dominated by Christianity, Islam and Judaism, as also Hinduism and the other Indic religions) there has been a widespread belief that the loss of virginity before marriage is a matter of deep shame. In some Muslim countries, this loss has been linked to honor killings. Traditionally in western marriage ceremonies, a veil is taken as a symbol of the bride's virginity; it is a popular misconception ...

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Virgin, Virgin - Physiology, Virgin - In History, Virgin - In Culture, Virgin - Religion, Virgin - Christianity, Virgin - Islam, Virgin - Judaism

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Virgin - Christianity. Some Christian observers say that virginity indicates a requisite state of holiness in terms of sexuality before marriage. For example, some believe the New Testament of the Christian Bible forbids pre-marital sex of any form. Some theologians hold that once virginity is lost in a pre-marital context then one is polluted or defiled from that state through the consequence arising from the corruption of retaining unlawful carnal knowledge through experience. There are terms such as a "born again virgin", where a person who has had pre-marital sex may regain a st ...

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Virgin, Virgin - Physiology, Virgin - In History, Virgin - In Culture, Virgin - Religion, Virgin - Christianity, Virgin - Islam, Virgin - Judaism

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