Activité physique entre personnes, pour le plaisir.
Physical activity between people for pleasure.
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See how the word “rapports sexuels” is used in sentences
Le film ne montre aucun rapport sexuel. — The film shows no sex.
Indiquez votre sexe sur le formulaire. — Write your sex on the form.
Le livre parle-t-il de rapports sexuels ? — Does the book mention sex at all?
Le formulaire demande votre nom et votre sexe. — The form asks for your name and sex.
Les rapports sexuels sont un thème fréquent dans ses romans. — Sex is a common theme in her novels.
Peux-tu déjà déterminer le sexe du chaton ? — Can you tell the sex of the kitten yet?
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Download the app for free French vocabulary testFrench makes this a plural phrase where English uses one singular word: rapports sexuels, sexual relations. It is the neutral, slightly administrative register — the wording of a health leaflet or a legal text.
In ordinary speech French says coucher avec quelqu'un, to sleep with someone, or faire l'amour. The single word le sexe exists but leans towards the body part; using it for the act sounds blunter than English sex does.
genre gender
The social and grammatical category. On a French form, sexe is what you fill in, not genre.
amour love
Faire l'amour is the everyday euphemism, and unlike English making love it has not aged.
rapport report, relation, ratio
On its own it means a report or a ratio. Only sexuels narrows it here, which is why the adjective cannot be dropped.
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