coitive

English

Adjective

coitive (not comparable)

1. Of, or pertaining to copulation.
   • 1982, John Alfred Atkins, Sex in Literature: High noon: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, page 220:

     Such men are rarely able to satisfy women, partly because the coitive friction is insufficient and partly because their coitive urges are slight.

   • 1996, Gail Hawkes, Sociology Of Sex And Sexuality, →ISBN, page 57:

     Biologically determined coitive heterosexuality was seen as the norm.

   • 2001, Wendy McElroy, Individualist Feminism of the Nineteenth Century, →ISBN, page 74:

     We do not aim to eliminate Sex Love, or to suppress its manifestations; but we wish to foster & encourage it; we wish to make real love & true affection take the place of so much depletive, demoralizing, coitive love.

   • 2016, O. Phelps Brown, The Complete Herbalist, →ISBN, page 428:

     No coitive act should be completed when it requires fatiguing efforts to accomplish it.

Related terms

• coital
• coitus