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promiscuity

proh mis kyooh uh tee

  • n  indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations

  • He had cowed his daughter Zelda with abuse and with ugly accusations of promiscuity.
  • For black women, hair has classification power (witness the connection Don Imus made between hair and sexual promiscuity when he referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as .
  • But in modern Sweden, where sociology has become a religion in itself, and birth control, abortion and promiscuity especially among the youngare recognized as inalienable .
News & Articles

  • My Turn: School dress codes make sense
    I totally agree with Alexander Hameline's letter ('Appropriate clothes for school,' May 22), same subject. Can you imagine all that testosterone floating around? And, we complain about sexual promiscuity in our young people, girls 13 and 14 having babies.
    June 8, 2013 - The Burlington Free Press
Quotes

  • Russell Brand in Baby Chums
    Russell Brand said: "Regardless of what happens in my current situation, I am unlikely to be satisfied with the calamitous promiscuity of the preceding five or six years."
  • Rick Perry in Forbes
    Providing the HPV vaccine doesn't promote sexual promiscuity any more than providing the Hepatitis B vaccine promotes drug use,Perry responded in a statement. "If the medical community developed a vaccine for lung cancer, would the same...
  • Mahesh Bhatt in AFP
    We all have to change with the times,said Bhatt. "In a globalised world, you cannot hold your thoughts. 'Murder' was about promiscuity and an extra-marital affair. It would have got an 'A' certificate anyway. I feel sexuality in a film...

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