" Therefore, he argued, contraception ("otherwise than by total abstinence from coition") and abortion "are alike disastrous to a woman's mental, moral, and physical well-being.
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In "Brighton Rock" (1938), Graham Greene described "the cheap amusements, the Pullman cars, the unloving weekends in gaudy hotels, and the sadness after coition" to be experienced in that seaside resort.
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Nonetheless, the form is capable of sophisticated and playful expression: :Titian was mixing rose madder. :His model posed nude on a ladder. ::Her position to Titian ::Suggested coition :So he nipped up the ladder and had her.
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This model of the biological life cycle of a human shows the basic processes involved and the order that they are in. "Coition of a Hemisected Man and Woman" (c. 1492) by Leonardo da Vinci. Human reproduction normally begins with copulation, followed by nine months of pregnancy before childbirth, though it may be achieved through artificial insemination.
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Harvard, Cambridge 1990 vii In the 17th century, François Mauriceau described glands at the female urethral meatus that "pour out great quantities of saline liquor during coition, which increases the heat and enjoyment of women".Cited in Laqueur 1990 pp. 92–3 This century saw an increasing understanding of female sexual anatomy and function, in particular the work of the Bartholin family in Denmark.
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Exaggeration on the part of Burton is vividly illustrated in Chapter 6, titled "Sexual Technique" in Colville's translation and "Concerning Everything That Is Favourable to the Act of Coition" in Burton's. Burton's translation is perhaps 25 pages long, lists 39 sex positions as well as 6 types of sexual movement, and gives creative names to many of these. Colville's translation is 2½ pages long, and lists 12 unnamed sex positions.
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In 1912, Chidley moved to Sydney, where he became a familiar bearded figure dressed in a Grecian-style tunic and sandals, giving public lectures and wandering the streets, carrying a bundle of his pamphlets. He preached the "Answer" to living a natural life to Sydneysiders. "Do nothing which is unnatural however slight" was his precept. He believed people should return to nudity, natural coition and a diet comprising only fruit and nuts to "be at one with Nature and one another".
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The first is an introduction in which he discusses the importance of experiment and various facts about the Earth, including the insignificance of surface topography compared to the radius of the Earth. He also announces his deduction that the Earth is a great magnet. In book 2, Gilbert deals with "coition", or the laws of attraction. Gilbert distinguishes between magnetism and static electricity (the latter being induced by rubbing amber) and reports many experiments with both (some dating back to Peregrinus).
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Foote introduced his device, the womb veil, in a self-published book entitled Medical Common Sense: > This consists of an India-rubber contrivance which the female easily adjusts > in the vagina before copulation, and which spreads a thin tissue of rubber > before the mouth of the womb so as to prevent the seminal aura from > entering. … Conception cannot possibly take place when it is used. The full > enjoyment of the conjugal embrace can be indulged in during coition. The > husband would hardly be likely to know that it was being used, unless told > by the wife.
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Leo Africanus repeated some of the old concepts on the hyena, with the addition of describing its legs and feet as similar to those of men. In 1551, Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner rejected the belief of the hyena's hermaphroditism, and theorised that it originated from confusion over an androgynous fish bearing the same name. He adds three other animals within the category of hyenas, including an Ethiopian quadruped named "Crocotta", which was thought to be a hybrid between a hyena and a lioness. Sir Thomas Browne also argued against the hyena's supposed hermaphroditism, stating that all animals follow their own "Law of Coition", and that a hermaphrodite would transgress this.
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"Coition of a Hemisected Man and Woman" (c. 1492), an interpretation of what happens inside the body during vaginal intercourse, by Leonardo da Vinci The work of Swiss jurist Johann Bachofen made a major impact on the study of the history of sexuality. Many authors, notably Lewis Henry Morgan and Friedrich Engels, were influenced by Bachofen, and criticized Bachofen's ideas on the subject, which were almost entirely drawn from a close reading of ancient mythology. In his 1861 book Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World Bachofen writes that in the beginning human sexuality was chaotic and promiscuous.
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The male usually initiates courtship, on the ground or in a tree, by bowing several times to the female with drooping wings, at the same time cawing and fanning his tail. The female may respond by crouching down, arching her back and quivering her wings slightly, or she may take the initiative by lowering her head and wings and erecting her partially spread tail over her back. Further similar displays are often followed by begging behaviour by the female and by the male presenting her with food, before coition takes place on the nest. At this stage, nearby male rooks often mob or attack the mating pair, and in the ensuing struggle, any male that finds himself on top of the female will attempt to copulate with her.
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This view is disputed by some doctors, as Paulette Cooper commented in her book The Scandal of Scientology: These same beliefs form the basis for Hubbard's Silent birth doctrine. According to a Scientology manual on raising children, a couple should be silent before and after coition. Roy Wallis, in 1976 wrote in The Road to Total Freedom that the Scientologist population was 59% male and 41% female, a number referenced on The Auditor, a publication of the Church of Scientology. In 1988, a participant observer study from the University of Copenhagen showed that the average participant in the Church of Scientology Copenhagen was a 35-year-old man. Though the numbers are not great in disparity, “they provide non-census evidence supporting the contention that more men than women become member of CoS,” Tollefson and Lewis write.
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These seldom attack eunuchs or boys > before coition with a woman, or women except those in whom the menses have > become suppressed... some have obtained lifelong security by refraining from > wine, mead and venery. In 1683, Thomas Sydenham, an English physician, described its occurrence in the early hours of the morning and its predilection for older males: > Gouty patients are, generally, either old men or men who have so worn > themselves out in youth as to have brought on a premature old age—of such > dissolute habits none being more common than the premature and excessive > indulgence in venery and the like exhausting passions. The victim goes to > bed and sleeps in good health. About two o'clock in the morning he is > awakened by a severe pain in the great toe; more rarely in the heel, ankle, > or instep.
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