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Abstract
The sexual union of a male and a female, a term used for human only.
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12 entry terms
- Sexual Intercourse
- Intercourse, Sexual
- Sexual Intercourses
- Age at First Sexual Intercourse
- Coital Frequency
- First Intercourse
- Sexarche
- Sexual Debut
- Coital Frequencies
- Debut, Sexual
- First Intercourses
- Frequency, Coital
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2 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings physiology, psychology.
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Indexing Annotation
human only: animal = COPULATION; for anal or oral sex index under SEX BEHAVIOR
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Coitus. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003075. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003075
- Coitus. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile%E2%80%93vaginal_intercourse
- Coitus. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164654