marital congress

Definitions

1. 1

   Sexual intercourse as performed by two people married to each other.

   • The ardent desire which he felt to bring about that consummation of their mutual wishes led him into inordinate excess in his marital congress, and his spermatic secretion was consequently thin, and very deficient in spermatozoa.
   • The labia may also be greatly enlarged from elephantiasis or from the presence of fibrous, cystic, or other tumors, so as to prevent marital congress.
   • Such instances of incompleteness of the marital act are most frequently to be explained by the nervous terror of the patient , and her refusal to submit to the act of marital congress.

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