sexual congress
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7.5
- noun
- /ˈsɛkʃuəl ˈkɒŋɡrɛs/
- NSFW
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congreso sexual
- Consent is essential when two people choose to participate in sexual congress.
- engage in sexual congress
Examples
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Friends do not engage in sexual congress with each other's wives.
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The keenest pleasure to which the body is susceptible is that of sexual congress.
Academic text (1997) -
You went to Chicago and engaged in sexual congress with my wife?
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The alleyway where he was discovered is used by rent boys for sexual congress.
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My own experience leads me to believe that that number is a lot higher, and that by 10 years into a marriage, one or both partners in almost any relationship will have had sexual congress with at least one person outside their relationship.
Blog text (19) -
Finally, he asks, didn't you then have sexual congress with the devil in a female form?
Fiction book (1993) -
It is a risk that every sexual congress carries.
Blog text (28) -
Is it your testimony, Ms. Block, that between the hours of six-ten and nine-forty you were engaged in sexual congress with the defendant?
Fiction book (1997) -
After a romantic dinner, they decided to engage in sexual congress that evening.
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The couple agreed that sexual congress is an important part of their relationship.
Synonyms
582
5.1
Sexual activity between two people, often including intercourse
103
8.3
Sex between people
89
7.8
Sex that involves a man's penis entering a woman's vagina
62
3.4
Sex between people, for example in a romantic or casual relationship
31
3.0
Physical acts between people, like touching or having sex, that give pleasure
31
3.2
An act in which one person's penis enters another person's vagina
19
3.7
Sexual activity between people, often intercourse
8
8.2
Sex in which a male inserts his penis into a female's vagina
8
8.5
An act in which a man puts his penis into a woman's vagina
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8.3
Sex between people, usually meaning one person entering another, used in legal texts
Private actions between people that involve touching for pleasure
Sex when a man's penis goes into a woman's vagina
Having sex with another person
How Sexual
Surface Forms
Morphology
sexual + congress
A B1 learner who knows 'sexual' (pertaining to sex) and the common sense of 'congress' as a meeting or assembly is likely to infer a 'sexual meeting' or a conference about sexual topics, but not necessarily the specific legal/medical sense 'sexual intercourse.' The precise meaning 'sexual intercourse' depends on an older/ specialised sense of 'congress' = 'coming together' that is not obvious to learners, so the connection is partially clear but not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
Sexual congress uses sexual (about sex) and congress (an old word for a meeting). It gives the clear image of people meeting for sex, so it means 'sexual intercourse'.