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• It's a violent, penetrative act, that scars what it observes. Consensus: the "refuge of scoundrels"
• The insistence on seeing HIV transmission as villainy obscures the most stubborn fact about the epidemic - far from being the realm of malevolent or sociopathic people, HIV is transmitted through behaviors that are otherwise completely natural and normal, such as penetrative intercourse - or behaviors that may often be hard to control rather than RHRealityCheck.org
• That would depend, of course, on how a particular statute defines “sodomy,” but since Article 125 makes very specific reference to “penetration,” it would appear that non-penetrative sexual activities, such as frottage and mutual masturbation, are technically excluded. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Four Days That Shook DADT”
• What kind of idiot, I mused, would injure themselves penetratively in anything other than a violent attack? TV review: 24 Hours in A&E; The Kids are Alright
• Nothing must be allowed to disfranchise manhood; and he who manumits the poet from social and ethical bonds is not logical, nor penetrative into the dark mystery of soul, nor is he the poet's friend. A Hero and Some Other Folks
• Some projects look to revive positive cultural practices such as non-penetrative forms of sexual release promoted amongst youth in the past.
• There are no other thinkers of that period, the 19th century, who really had such a penetrative insight into the relationship between ecological crises and the construction of our society.
• Before the Hite Report, sexologists such as Freud and Kinsey propounded the view that "proper vaginal orgasms" could only come about with penetrative sex. Shere Hite: 'We need to make a film about me'
• Class and age as well as gender seem to be significant in affecting homosexual activity and non-penetrative heterosexual activity.
• The style of government directed by Henry II and his sons was exceptional for its penetrative ability and aggressive quality.