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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Sexual activity, especially sexual intercourse.
  2. n. Courtship; wooing.

Wiktionary

  1. n. sexual intercourse
  2. n. dated courtship; amorous advances

Examples

  • ““The same hormone that we release in lovemaking is also released in childbirth and in breastfeeding — oxytocin,” said doula Gail Tully.”

    Orgasmic Birth « Happy Healthy Hip Parenting

  • “A child being educated in Catholic schools learns that only gay men and women who abstain from sex are worthy of the sacraments, but that sinful heterosexual lovemaking is transformed by a sacrament (marriage) powerful enough to render the sexual aspect of love a radiant reflection of Christ's love, from which radiance the Vatican insists gay Catholics should be excluded.”

    The Huffington Post: Michele Somerville: Homophobia in the Church: What Catholics Are Doing About It, and What Still Needs to Be Done

  • “They writhed their dry skins upon each other, as snakes like doing in lovemaking, with the added novelty of caressing soft, smooth, moist human skin.”

    Everyone Was In Love

  • “True Blood" fits the bill partly in a jokey way, offering the story of backwoods-Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and her vampire boyfriend Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) as if their lovemaking were a socially transgressive act.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Vampires for Snobs

  • “Stone tries to be weepy and real, but she gets slimed by the movie's take on lovemaking, which is that all good sex begins with a breaking and entering.”

    Newsweek: Someone To Watch Over You

  • “And here when my wife called our lovemaking “the Asian Experience”, I thought she was referring to my small penis.”

    STEVEN SEAGAL’S “ASIAN EXPERIENCE” – UPDATE

  • “Our precious bodies fit together so well that Jesus called lovemaking becoming one flesh -- as indeed it does in many different ways during loving sexual relationships when two otherwise barren persons join to create the miracle of new life.”

    A FEAR OF WOMEN

  • “We all know that sex is defined as lovemaking between one man and one woman, so how could he have had sex with another man?”

    Think Progress » Ted Haggard on homosexuality:

  • “I can quote the magazine article we discussed and I can tell you what she had for dinner at Champs ... but all that's left of our lovemaking is a faded mental snapshot: a dimly lit room, a damp breeze turning spindles of cloth in an open window, her green eyes close to mine.”

    Spin

  • ““I am not referring to your lovemaking, and you know it!””

    Simon & Schuster: Sweet Defiance

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