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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



... and laboring outdoors, inflamed beyond control by rum and hard cider, soon led to lively, impulsive activities and physical exertions, both in immoderate excess and in disregard of all the inhibitions of tradition and of conscience. That there was a close relation of these "frollicks" with the sexual immorality of the ...
— Quaker Hill - A Sociological Study • Warren H. Wilson
... last the social evil which more than all the others put together tends to produce sexual immorality. As I have already said, it is a comparatively rare thing for a man to "go wrong" for the first time when he is entirely sober. It is Bacchus that conducts men into the courts of Venus. Mr. Flexner, who for scientific reasons made a comprehensive ...
— Men, Women, and God • A. Herbert Gray
... Denmark, writes as follows: "Whether it be the relation of cause and effect, or only what logicians call a "mere coincidence," the fact remains that in Rome, Russia, France, and England, political corruption, cruelty of government, sexual immorality—nay, downright, impudent, open, boastful indecency—have culminated, for the most part, in the eras of the influence of viragints on ...
— Religion and Lust - or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire • James Weir


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


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