Soaking (sexual Practice)
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Soaking, also known as "marinating" or "floating", is a sexual practice of inserting the penis into the vagina but not subsequently thrusting, reportedly used by members of
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(LDS Church) as a purported loophole in the church's ban on premarital intercourse. In 2021, a video about soaking went viral on
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. The practice is said to sometimes be accompanied by "jump humping", which involves enlisting the help of a third person to bounce on the bed on which a couple is laying while they are engaged in soaking, thus generating the missing element of motion without allegedly making the couple responsible for the presence of the motion (or to use some other method of causing rhythmic bed motion, such as lying under the bed and pushing up from that position). The third person has been termed the "bed jumper" or " Provo pusher". Some Mormons have said that soaking is an
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and not an actual practice by members of the church. Others have stated that they knew people who had participated in the action. The practice was covered in the television series ''
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Coitus reservatus ''Coitus reservatus'' (''coitus'', "sexual intercourse, union" and ''reservatus'', "reserved, saved"), also known as sexual continence, is a form of sexual intercourse in which the man does not attempt to ejaculate within his partner, but instead ...
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Sexuality and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sexuality has a prominent role within the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which teaches that gender is defined in the premortal existence, and that part of the purpose of mortal life is for men and wo ...
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Technical virgin Virginity is the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse. The term ''virgin'' originally only referred to sexually inexperienced women, but has evolved to encompass a range of definitions, as found in traditional, modern ...


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