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anal sex

noun

Etymology

From anal + sex. First use appears c. 1970 in the American Sociological Review.

  1. derived from *séksus✻
  2. derived from *seksus✻
  3. derived from sexus — “gender; gender traits; males or females; genitals”
  4. derived from sexe — “genitals; gender”
  5. inherited from sexe — “sex 􂀿distinction between male and female􂁀 and gender”
  6. compounded as anal sex — “anal + sex”

Definitions

  1. A sexual activity involving stimulation of a sexual partner's anus or rectum, especially…

    A sexual activity involving stimulation of a sexual partner's anus or rectum, especially by penetration with a penis or other object.

    • They had sex before either knew the other’s surname. They had anal sex before they had vaginal sex.
    • It is a common misconception that anal intercourse is an exclusively homosexual male practice. […] As elsewhere in Africa, little data exist on the role of anal sex in HIV acquisition in women in the general population […]

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for anal sex. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA