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• “In other words, the more vasopressin in the brain, the more male voles want to stick around and mingle with the female after copulation is through.”

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• “308 Complete ablution is rendered necessary chiefly by the emission of semen either in copulation or in nocturnal pollution.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• ““What if you get AIDS?” she fretted, completely ignorant of or at least neglecting the fact that female-female copulation is virtually STD-transmission-free, fully focused on AIDS as “the gay disease” or, at the very least, “the promiscuous people’s disease,” and naturally since I am bisexual I’m also promiscuous, because all true bisexuals are.”

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• “To complicate the situation, the cow emits a “postcopulatory rumble” after copulation, which is thought to invite a challenging bull that might be bigger and therefore preferred.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Elephant's Secret Sense

• “Lastly comes the sin of not observing the right manner of copulation, which is more grievous if the abuse regards the”

  Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

• “The special process which secures this union of the male and female elements is termed copulation or coitus.”

  Men Women and God

• “The other season in which it is dangerous to come in their way, is at the time of their copulation, which is generally about this time of the year.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

• “The males have a pair of mating organs, known as pedipalps, one of which they use for each copulation -- in other words, twice is their limit.”

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• “I suspect this happens when one bird is caught trespassing in another's territory, perhaps to sneak a copulation with a member of another pair (crows pair for life, but they fool around a bit).”

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• “How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede their generations in Heaven, to be made by the smell of a Citron, or that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.”

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