sex-mystery

English[edit]

sex-mystery (plural sex-mysteries)

A secret religious celebration involving sexual intercourse.
- 1884, Thomas Welton, Mental Magic: A Rationale of Thought Reading, London: George Redway, page 53:
  The ANSAIRETIC Logos is a collection of Sex Mysteries never before revealed outside the Secret Brotherhoods of the Orient, and they relate WHOLLY to the inner, higher, deeper, and recondite meanings of Sex.
Sex conceived of as a mystical or magical phenomenon.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 81:
  What more clear than that the conjunction of Tree and Serpent is the fulfilment in nature of that sex-mystery which is so potent in the life of man and the animals?
Lack of knowledge about sexuality and sexual behaviour resulting from a lack of sex education.
- 1925 August 13, The Western Mail, Perth, page 21, column 1:
  Women will be in a position to compete with man in every way. They will wear trousers. Rational birth control will free women for education, and quaint clothes and the sex mystery must go.
- 2021, Maurice A. Bigelow, Sex-Education: A Series of Lectures Concerning Knowledge of Sex in its Relation to Human Life‎^[1], Beyond Books Hub:
  Sex mystery has prevented progress. The policy of maintaining mystery and secrecy concerning sex has failed with adults even more sadly than with children.