(a.) Mating with but one of the opposite sex; -- said of birds and mammals.
Example Sentences:
(1) In two heterosexual couples, transmission of lymphadenopathy-associated virus from a seropositive man at increased risk to his monogamous wife occurred.
(2) Previous investigators have pointed to one-male mating systems, monogamous pair-bonding, or an arboreal habitat as reasons that some primates should have less conspicuous signals of estrus than others.
(3) The surveys also indicate that condom use declines with age, presumably because older respondents have formed monogamous relationships.
(4) Evidence for sexual transmission is provided by a significantly greater incidence of bacterial vaginosis in women with more than 5 sexual partners compared to those in a lifelong monogamous relationship, while bacterial detection in virgins and the failure to demonstrate benefits of partner treatment argue against sexual transmission.
(5) Those messages are: Any sexual intercourse (outside of mutually monogamous or HIV antibody-negative relationships) must be protected with a condom.
(6) We show that for many realistic situations the probability of becoming infected by multiple partners is equal to the probability of becoming infected by one partner in a monogamous relationship given that the prevalence is the same in both cases; however if the multiple partners are chosen over time from a pool of a growing prevalence, then one is better off in a monogamous relationship where that partner is chosen early in the epidemic.
(7) The relation between sex role self-concept (masculine, feminine, undifferentiated, and androgynous) and both relationship quality and dysfunctional relationship beliefs was examined in 370 monogamous partners who represented four types of couples (married, heterosexual cohabiting, gay, and lesbian).
(8) Everything else being equal, males of polygynous species are characterized by more variable canine sizes than males of monogamous species.
(9) Process evaluation allows identification of multipliers that reinforce and confirm the initial message of prevention (source) thereby encouraging behaviour modifications that are likely to reduce the transmission of HIV (condom use, no sharing of injection material, monogamous relationship, etc.).
(10) They also tended to be monogamous and avoided high risk groups.
(11) = 1.72), the results reveal that male adolescents from monogamous families experience better psychological adjustment than their polygynous counterparts, whereas no such difference exists in the levels of psychological adjustment of female adolescents from both family types.
(12) Differentials in fertility levels between women in monogamous unions and those in polygynous ones are investigated using mean number of children ever born as the measure of fertility.
(13) The behaviors examined included: (1) restriction of partners to one monogamous or steady relationship and (2) among men who maintained multiple or non-steady partners, the avoidance of unprotected receptive and insertive anogenital contact.
(14) Type II is female-headed and daughters bring children into the household by de facto polyandry (41%), but sons formally weds monogamously.
(15) It is shown here that if females and males prefer partners with few or no mutations then the load may also be reduced in monogamous species.
(16) Monogamous pairs were housed together for 2-3 weeks for mating, and the male was separated from the female during delivery and nursing.
(17) A number of cases corresponding to polygamous and monogamous matings of individuals are considered.
(18) An assessment of previous studies and of the results of a 1966-1967 study comparing the fertility levels of polygynously and monogamously married women in a rural and an urban population in Nigeria lead to the conclusion that the hypothesis was useless.
(19) Only a fifth anticipate a single monogamous relationship.
(20) They probably consist of a dominant, monogamous breeding pair, its dependent offspring and separate hierarchies of subdominant males and females who stay associated with the group for various lengths of time.
Monogamy
Definition:
(n.) Single marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy.
(n.) State of being paired with a single mate.
Example Sentences:
(1) A ten-year study of the sexual behavior of college students in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, shows that students choose among three sexual subcultures: celibacy, monogamy, and free experimentation.
(2) Citing the noted study by Larry Young into voles, which went some way to proving their monogamy was a function of the way in which the hormone oxytocin was transmitted in the brain, Faulkes believes something similar will likely be revealed in the naked mole rats.
(3) Two forms of monogamy occur, Type I, facultative, and Type II, obligate.
(4) No one characteristic can be taken as definitive of monogamy.
(5) Still, there's an upside to 007's monogamy, and it may just explain how this much-maligned film has wheedled its way so irrevocably into my affections: uniquely in the world of Bond, it allows a vein of romantic adventure to develop that's real, not illusory.
(6) What if the problem were to be serial monogamy or, dare I say it, the unpleasant fact that not all men are tantric sex gods?
(7) Equal rights to monotony, monogamy and vol-au-vents is just not my idea of modernisation or equality, because marriage is not an institution based on equality.
(8) Of these not anticipating monogamy three quarters mentioned the use of condoms.
(9) Even though the promotion of condom use is not sufficient to stop the AIDS epidemic, governments should nevertheless emphasize its importance as one method of controlling AIDS to be used alongside of monogamy and other preventive measures.
(10) Does monogamy no longer appear to offer a measure of personal happiness to the older working women?
(11) The hypothesis that polygyny is associated with higher fertility than monogamy was evaluated.
(12) We shouldn’t beat ourselves up about one-night stands or walks of shame.” The idea of your 20s as a carefree period before a woman starts her “real” life of monogamy and child-bearing is not a new one: see the end of John Cleland’s Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure , published in 1748, where 300 pages of masturbation, orgies and lesbianism are followed by a “tail-piece of morality”, and protagonist Fanny Hill explains that she is much happier now she’s put all that filthy shagging behind her.
(13) Forty-four percent of the postannouncement sample indicated that, as a result of the news, they were now using condoms; 32% reported no effect; and 54% reported a variety of behavior changes that included monogamy (21%), greater selectivity (10.6%), fewer sexual partners (9.2%), and abstinence (3.5%).
(14) Although monogamy and mate choice in humans may be regulated by underlying processes different from those in other species, there are many functional similarities, and both are ultimately the products of natural selection.
(15) I find myself following in the footsteps of Frank Beach's Nebraska Symposium paper of 30 years ago in arguing against a unitary concept of monogamy, just as he argued against a unitary concept of "sex drive."
(16) Rather, the data show that polygamy and monogamy select women with different social characteristics, which are associated with different rates of cumulative fertility.
(17) Within both types of monogamy, the following traits are typically seen: (1) adults show little sexual dimorphism either physically or behaviorally: (2) the adult male and female exhibit infrequent socio-sexual interactions except during the early stages of pair bond formation.
(18) The data overwhelmingly suggest that avoidance of exposure to HPV via abstinence or monogamy in both partners markedly reduces the risk of cervical cancer.
(19) Male mammals show a diverse array of mating bonds, including obligate monogamy, unimale and group polygyny and promiscuity.
(20) The essence of monogamy appears to lie in three dimensions--exclusivity of mating, shared parental care, and association.