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Sexual morality   /sˈɛkʃuəl mərˈæləti/   Listen
Sexual morality

noun
1.
Morality with respect to sexual relations.  Synonyms: chastity, virtue.






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"Sexual morality" Quotes from Famous Books



... period were effeminate and emotional, the women seem to have sunk to a lower stage of morals than in any other era, and sexual morality and wifely fidelity to have been abnormally bad and lightly esteemed. The story of Ariwara Narihira, prince, poet, painter and Don Juan, and of Taka and her rise to power (see p. 238) has already been told; and it is to be noted that the Fujiwara working for the control ...
— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi

... liberally supplied by Methody; despite the criminal's Pecksniffan tone, his self-glorification of the part he had taken, his effronte boast of pure and lofty motives and his passionate enthusiasm for sexual morality, the trial emphasised the fact that no individual may break the law of the land in order that good may come therefrom. It also proved most convincingly the utter baselessness of the sweeping indictment ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton

... author believes that upon the correlation of religious emotion and sexual desire depends, in a great measure, the stability of sexual morality. Were it not for this correlation, sexual promiscuity would be the rule throughout ...
— Religion and Lust - or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire • James Weir



Words linked to "Sexual morality" :   purity, chastity, honor, virtue, honour, pureness, morality, unchaste, chaste



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