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Sexual Abstinence

Known as: celibate, sex abstinence, Abstinence, Sexual 
Prevention of contraception by not engaging in sexual intercourse.
National Institutes of Health

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Family PlanningSex Behavior

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Postpartum AbstinenceVirginity

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Highly Cited
2018
Highly Cited
2018
Clonal polymorphism and high heterozygosity in the celibate genome of the Amazon molly
The extreme rarity of asexual vertebrates in nature is generally explained by genomic decay due to absence of meiotic… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Gendered Sexuality over the Life Course: A Conceptual Framework
Despite increasing interest in gendered sexuality over the life course, a comprehensive conceptual model, applicable to all… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV infection: what if it works?
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Into the Dark Heart of Ethnography: The Lived Ethics and Inequality of Intimate Field Relationships
In response to critiques from feminist, existential, and postmodern qualitative researchers, the idea of maintaining objective… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Sexual behaviour and its medicalisation: in sickness and in health
Religion used to define morally acceptable conduct, then doctors became interested in sexual behaviour. Now we live in a world… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Sex and Parthenogenesis — Evolutionary Ecology of Reproductive Modes in Non-Marine Ostracods
Sex and Parthenogenesis — Evolutionary Ecology of Reproductive Modes in Non-Marine Ostracods 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Resistance to the Virginal Ideal in Late-Fourth-Century Rome: The Case of Jovinian
O RELIGION has invented a new dogma against nature," wrote the monk Jovinian, thus characterizing the exaltation of virginity and… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
The Chivalrous Society
"Georges Duby in productivity and originality stands at the forefront of active medievalists in France and in the world. The… 
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Born under Saturn : the character and conduct of artists, a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution
Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf Wittkower explore… 
Highly Cited
1961
Highly Cited
1961
Obsessional illness in mental hospital patients.
The natural history of obsessional illness has been studied in 89 mental hospital in-patients. Diagnostically 37 were classified… 
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