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SEXUAL PRACTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sexual practice mean? 

SEXUAL PRACTICE (noun)
  The noun SEXUAL PRACTICE has 1 sense:

1. activities associated with sexual intercourseplay

  Familiarity information: SEXUAL PRACTICE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SEXUAL PRACTICE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Activities associated with sexual intercourse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice

Context example:

they had sex in the back seat

Hypernyms ("sexual practice" is a kind of...):

activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)

Attribute:

heterosexual (sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex)

homosexual (sexually attracted to members of your own sex)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sexual practice"):

breeding; facts of life; procreation; reproduction (the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring)

bestiality; sodomy; zooerastia; zooerasty (sexual activity between a person and an animal)

heterosexualism; heterosexuality; straightness (a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex)

bisexuality (sexual activity with both men and women)

gayness; homoeroticism; homosexualism; homosexuality; queerness (a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex)

lechery (unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity)

promiscuity; promiscuousness; sleeping around (indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations)

autoeroticism; autoerotism (using you own body as a sexual object)

perversion; sexual perversion (an aberrant sexual practice)

arousal; foreplay; stimulation (mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse)

bondage (sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners)

conjugation; coupling; mating; pairing; sexual union; union (the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes)

carnal abuse (any lascivious contact by an adult with the sexual organs of a child (especially not involving sexual intercourse))

love; love life; lovemaking; making love; sexual love (sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people)

pleasure (sexual gratification)

carnal knowledge; coition; coitus; copulation; intercourse; relation; sex act; sexual congress; sexual intercourse; sexual relation (sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur)

conception (the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon)

safe sex (sexual activity (especially sexual intercourse) with the use of measures (such as latex condoms) to avoid the transmission of disease (especially AIDS))

outercourse (sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration)


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