Literary notes about Intromission (AI summary)
The term "intromission" appears with diverse nuances in literary texts, functioning both in its literal anatomical sense and as a metaphor for insertion or intrusion. In some passages it designates the act of sexual insertion and its technical implications—for instance, detailed discussions about the phases of sexual contact and anatomical requirements ([1], [2], [3]). In other contexts, however, the word is extended metaphorically to denote an unwelcome or invasive interference in political, legal, or interpersonal affairs ([4], [5], [6]). This blended usage, ranging from precise biological description to broader figurative applications, illustrates the author’s deliberate play on meaning to enrich narrative or argumentative nuance ([7], [8]).
- —The male sexual activity consists in the essential features, intromission and ejaculation.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey - For intromission erection is an absolute necessity.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey - In women also, as in men, the motor discharge is directed to a specific end—the intromission of the semen in the one sex, its reception in the other.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis - Now came the intromission of Yuan Shih Kai, who had been Imperial Resident in Corea.
— from The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford by Beresford, Charles William De la Poer Beresford, Baron - The said John, by letter, gave a discharge to the said Earl of all further intromission or care with his affairs.
— from The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland With Which Are Included Knox's Confession and The Book of Discipline by John Knox - To permit intromission, and to punish fraud, is to make law no better than a pitfall.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson - “All about what?—all about what?” said Delia, whose attempt to represent happy ignorance was menaced by an intromission of ferocity.
— from The Reverberator by Henry James - It seems to me like a direct intromission into some other world.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James
