SEXUAL ACTIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sexual activity mean? 

• SEXUAL ACTIVITY (noun)
  The noun SEXUAL ACTIVITY has 1 sense:

1. activities associated with sexual intercourse

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEXUAL ACTIVITY (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 activity" 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 activity"):

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)

 Context examples 

International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) Over the past four weeks how often were you able to get an erection during sexual activity?

(IIEF - Able to Get an Erection During Sexual Activity, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by the persistent or recurrent inability to achieve or to maintain an erection during sexual activity.

(Impotence, NCI Thesaurus)

A response about an individual's erections not being firm enough for any sexual activity.

(Not Firm Enough for Sexual Activity, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by a recurrent or persistent lack of desire for sexual activity.

(Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Although infectious agents are excluded from this definition, extrinsic factors that increase exposure to these agents (e.g., occupation, sexual activity, needle sharing, transfusion) are considered environmental.

(Environmental Carcinogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

These include your health, frequency of sexual activity, number of sexual partners and desire to have children in the future.

(Birth Control, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

A question about an individual's distress related to their physical problems with sexual activity.

(Distress over Physical Problem with Sexual Activity, NCI Thesaurus)

Men who engage in sexual activity with other men, regardless of how they identify themselves.

(Men who have Sex with Men, NCI Thesaurus)

You have to deal with pressures related to food, drink, appearance, drugs, and sexual activity.

(College Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Warning signs can include: • Harming or threatening themselves, other people or pets • Damaging or destroying property • Lying or stealing • Not doing well in school, skipping school • Early smoking, drinking or drug use • Early sexual activity • Frequent tantrums and arguments • Consistent hostility towards authority figures

(Child Behavior Disorders, NIH)