Sex-mystery
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A secret religious celebration involving sexual intercourse.
"The ANSAIRETIC Logos is a collection of Sex Mysteries never before revealed outside the Secret Brotherhoods of the Orient, and they relate WHOLLY to the inner, higher, deeper, and recondite meanings of Sex."
- 2 Sex conceived of as a mystical or magical phenomenon.
"What more clear than that the conjunction of Tree and Serpent is the fulfilment in nature of that sex-mystery which is so potent in the life of man and the animals?"
- 3 Lack of knowledge about sexuality and sexual behaviour resulting from a lack of sex education.
"Women will be in a position to compete with man in every way. They will wear trousers. Rational birth control will free women for education, and quaint clothes and the sex mystery must go."
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More examples"The ANSAIRETIC Logos is a collection of Sex Mysteries never before revealed outside the Secret Brotherhoods of the Orient, and they relate WHOLLY to the inner, higher, deeper, and recondite meanings of Sex."
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