premarital sex
Intimacy before marriage
Sexual intercourse between people who are not married to each other, particularly when neither has yet married.
The term implies a moral framework—usually religious—in which sex properly belongs within marriage.
The church teaches that premarital sex is sinful.
Those outside such frameworks rarely use the phrase, since it presupposes marriage as the relevant benchmark.
- free loveUnstructured romantic and sexual bonds
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
- sexual moralityStandards for intimate conduct
- moral valuesStandards of right conduct
- fornicationIntercourse between unmarried persons
consent · living in sin · purity ring · true love waits · fidelity · sexual ethics · courtship · cohabitation · secret · adultery · shotgun wedding · walk of shame · intercourse · masturbation · sexual revolution · hooking up · one night stand · contraception
- sexual customssexual norms, sexual taboos, marriage customs, courtship, virginity
- sexual ethicssexual morality, sexual ethics, chastity, adultery, human sexuality
- taboostaboo, incest, cannibalism, bestiality, necrophilia
- vice lawssodomy laws, obscenity laws, blue laws, adultery laws, indecency laws
- forbidden actsblasphemy, idolatry, sacrilege, adultery, incest
- haramshirk, polytheism, idolatry, apostasy, gambling
premarital sexchastity
Abstaining from sexual activity
sexual purity · virginity · celibacy · moral purity · virtue
premarital sexabstinence
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
celibacy · sexual abstinence · chastity · continence · virginity
unmarried, marital, extramarital, coitus, premarital, postmarital, premarriage