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- adjective Not
procreative .
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Nonmarital, nonprocreative, purely recreational sex—the only kind homosexuals could practice—was legitimated for the first time in American culture.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Or committed, nonprocreative polygamous marriages?
Cause and effect 2009
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Well, imagine that: contraception leads to the validation of nonprocreative sex, which leads to the acceptance of homosexual sex.
Cause and effect 2009
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John, you are entitled to think that nonprocreative sex is bad.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Refusal to Consent to Caesarean Section as Neglect of the Child? 2009
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By the way, just to be clear, there is plenty of sex WITH responsibility that is nonetheless nonprocreative.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Refusal to Consent to Caesarean Section as Neglect of the Child? 2009
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The Church itself started to appeal to a conception of “nature” as the standard of morality, and drew it in such a way so as to forbid homosexual sex (as well as extramarital sex, nonprocreative sex within marriage, and often masturbation).
Homosexuality Pickett, Brent 2006
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(Greenberg, 1988, 260) Even while some Christian theologians continued to denounce nonprocreative sexuality, including same-sex acts, a genre of homophilic literature, especially among the clergy, developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries (Boswell, 1980, chapters 8 and 9).
Homosexuality Pickett, Brent 2006
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Hence the spilling of semen for any nonprocreative purpose -- in coitus interruptus (Gen. 38: 1-11), male homosexual acts, or male masturbation -- was considered tantamount to abortion or murder.
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Hence the spilling of semen for any nonprocreative purpose -- in coitus interruptus (Gen. 38: 1-11), male homosexual acts, or male masturbation -- was considered tantamount to abortion or murder.
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G: I thought he was using “sodomy”? in the traditional sense of any nonprocreative sexual act.
Queers As Condoms And Other Illogical Objections To Same-Sex Marriage 2005
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