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Перевод: procreation

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произведение потомства; порождение
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Тезаурус:

1. The Shanghai Sex Sociological Research Centre, after questioning 23,000 people in 15 provinces, has concluded that 86% of Chinese approve of sex before marriage, 69% approve of extra-marital affairs, and more than 70% believe one purpose of sex is pleasure - not just, as Maoist traditionalists would have it, procreation and the dreary fulfilment of conjugal duty.
2. This held true even in marriage (a man who loved his wife too passionately was an adulterer, said St Jerome, who was not a man you'd invite to parties); and rampant millenarianism encouraged the tendency, since if you think that the end of the world, no, this world, is imminent, then procreation must seem something of a waste of time, and preparing your soul for Judgement Day will be pushed up your list of priorities.
3. Procreation is the key word for April with everything from sticklebacks to water voles producing young during the month.
4. Previous attempts to do this had always foundered on the fact that the fun usually resulted pretty soon in procreation but at this very time field trials of the contraceptive pill were taking place which would soon make the division practical and permanent for the first time in history.
5. Sex in Judaism is not only for procreation, although of course that is very important.
6. In particular, a Papal encyclical of 1968 explicitly proscribes any action which either before, at the moment of, or after sexual intercourse, is specifically intended to prevent procreation.
7. Two monstrosities, wrote Borges, mirrors and procreation, for both duplicate existence.
8. Writing to the Corinthians who thought sex in marriage incompatible with the spiritual life, the apostle had insisted that marriage and procreation are no sin, while conceding to his opponents that, though good, marriage is not as good as celibacy.
9. Some may even feel that perhaps sex is not quite right if it has nothing to do with procreation.
10. The male power in procreation is the active power; women's contribution is passive.
11. Relatedly, for him, the evils of our times are indicated in the way that, allegedly, the polymorphous perverse has come to prevail over procreation, contraception over conception, and the anus over the vagina - "as if the mark of a civilization dying should be a mountainous sense of excitement for the hole which presides over waste" (p. 162).
12. Or that the only purpose of it is for procreation, which is obviously disproved in the above passage.
13. How different the world may have been if long ago those missionaries who set out to convert the world to belief in an all-providing benevolent "god", had themselves been aware that the human race, sooner or later, would have to control its rate of procreation, for the world can never provide for unlimited human life.