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Sexual immorality   /sˈɛkʃuəl ˌɪmərˈælɪti/   Listen
Sexual immorality

noun
1.
The evil ascribed to sexual acts that violate social conventions.





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"Sexual immorality" Quotes from Famous Books



... relation of sexual immorality to the plague of social diseases, has come from certain eminent physicians, notably the late Dr. Prince A. Morrow. His translation of Fournier's "Syphilis and Marriage" (1881), his own "Social Diseases and Marriage" (1904), ...
— Sex-education - A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its - relation to human life • Maurice Alpheus Bigelow
... sexual immorality have always been parts of one circle; sexual silence and moral restraint form another circle. The change from one to the other has come in the history of mankind, usually through new conditions of life, and the primary factor has not been any policy of keeping ...
— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg
... wonderful that such a fact should have set moralists thinking. Of course if a human community could discover some secret way of effecting the same object, and could have the courage to do it, or rather the unselfishness to do it, the result would simply be that sexual immorality of any kind would become practically impossible The very idea of such immorality would cease ...
— Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn • Lafcadio Hearn


Words linked to "Sexual immorality" :   iniquity, immorality, evil, wickedness


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