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Definition of Sexual morality

1. Noun. Morality with respect to sexual relations.

Literary usage of Sexual morality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"At any rate, the decline does not necessarily indicate an improvement in sexual morality. Nor does a high rate of illegitimacy in a country prove that the ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"... Earl Baldwin Am J Archaeol 21:22-37 Ja '17 Smith, Edith Livingston, and Cabot. Hugh Study in sexual morality. ..."

3. The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson, Bolton Glanvill Corney, James Stewart (1908)
"Among civilized peoples there has been an ebb and flow of sexual morality so marked that historians have had recourse to the explanations of the example of ..."

4. The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson, Bolton Glanvill Corney, James Stewart (1908)
"Among civilized peoples there has been an ebb and flow of sexual morality so marked that historians have had recourse to the explanations of the example of ..."

5. Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis (1910)
"sexual morality. Prostitution in Relation to Our Marriage System—Marriage and Morality—The Definition of the Term "Morality"—Theoretical Morality —Its ..."

6. Divorce: A Study in Social Causation by James Pendleton Lichtenberger (1909)
"THE NEW BASIS OF sexual morality Perhaps the chief effect of the causes we are considering is manifest in ..."

7. Love and Marriage by Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (1911)
"The claims of the new sexual morality show curious similarities and dissimilarities to those to which the age of chivalry gave rise in the same sphere. ..."

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