marital congress

The ardent desire which he felt to bring about that consummation of their mutual wishes led him into inordinate excess in his marital congress, and his spermatic secretion was consequently thin, and very deficient in spermatozoa.

1875, The Generative System and Its Functions in Health and Disease

The labia may also be greatly enlarged from elephantiasis or from the presence of fibrous, cystic, or other tumors, so as to prevent marital congress.

1887, A System of Gynecology

Such instances of incompleteness of the marital act are most frequently to be explained by the nervous terror of the patient , and her refusal to submit to the act of marital congress.

1889, Diseases of Women and Abdominal Surgery

Authorities on obstetrics, on the contrary, say that one of the causes of abortion in the early months of pregnancy is marital congress; and one of the sources of sepsis in women, which may result in the death of both mother and child.

1922, The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation