Meanings
- not comparableOf, or pertaining to copulation.
Biologically determined coitive heterosexuality was seen as the norm.
1996, Gail Hawkes, Sociology Of Sex And Sexuality, →ISBN, page 573 more examples
Such men are rarely able to satisfy women, partly because the coitive friction is insufficient and partly because their coitive urges are slight.
1982, John Alfred Atkins, Sex in Literature: High noon: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, page 220We do not aim to eliminate Sex Love, or to suppress its manifestations; but we wish to foster & encourage it; we wish to make real love & true affection take the place of so much depletive, demoralizing, coitive love.
2001, Wendy McElroy, Individualist Feminism of the Nineteenth Century, →ISBN, page 74No coitive act should be completed when it requires fatiguing efforts to accomplish it.
2016, O. Phelps Brown, The Complete Herbalist, →ISBN, page 428
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