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foreplay
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Word definitions for foreplay in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1921 in sexual sense, from fore- + play (n.); Freud's Vorlust was translated earlier as fore-pleasure (Brill, 1910). A more direct translation from the German would be thwarted by the sense drift in English lust (n.). Earlier as a theatrical term:\n\nIn ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. In human sexual behavior, the acts at the beginning of a sexual encounter that serve to build up sexual arousal, sometimes in preparation for sexual intercourse or another act meant to bring about orgasm. vb. (context intranstive English) To engage in ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. mutual sexual stimulation prior to sexual intercourse [syn: arousal , stimulation ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In human sexual behavior , foreplay is a set of emotionally and physically intimate acts between two or more people meant to create sexual arousal and desire for sexual activity. Either or any of the sexual partners may indicate sexual interest to initiate ...
Usage examples of foreplay.
What had started as foreplay had become something else, something dark and twisted.
This was the best part: the foreplay before he made his final selection.
That there were people out there that considered my love of nails and teeth during foreplay and sex to be perverted.
The beast had been willing, but there had been almost no foreplay, and I was tight.
One of the other men in my life was smiling at the door, looking forward to having me do foreplay on him in front of an audience.
On another night, I would have asked for more foreplay to make that horrible tightness loose, but tonight I wanted to feel him push his way in.
He was still sitting where my body had left him, his body between my knees, close enough that he could have joined Jean-Claude in the foreplay, but he just knelt there.
Asking Rhys to help me do what amounted to foreplay with Kitto was asking too much.
In fact, his foreplay went on for so long that my mind became fuzzy with wanting.
Too horny for foreplay, I opened my thighs and invited him to explore.
The date at some hip place, the slick questions designed to impress but not to reveal, the foreplay choreographed to ensure maximum pleasure for both partners before the final act commenced.
But when Waters tore himself away in spite of this, she reversed strategy and drew out the foreplay, so that he stayed late in order to find the release that days before had come in the first hour after his arrival.
Couples were encouraged to spend more time on desire-building activities, such as communication, foreplay, fantasy, and manual and oral stimulation.
Without a doubt, fighting for some couples is a form of foreplay, which leads to intensely satisfying sex.
Having made its debut appearance in the dictionary in 1929, this rather arcane notion of foreplay has remained strangely static.