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1753 Ess. Celibacy 53 Leachery is really such a monster, as..to be no less than a strong inclination to transform the whole bodily frame into sexual organs, and employ them in one continued act of lewdness and debauchery.

1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies ii. 35 The common people have no cloathing but a piece of coarse wrapper, which goes round their loins, and often barely covers their sexual parts.

1772 C. Milne Inst. Bot. ii. 203 This separation and this union of the sexual organs of plants offers nothing contrary to what is observed in animals.

1797 J. Stackhouse Nereis Britannica (1801) ii. p. vi In plants whose sexual parts were so small as to elude even microscopic observation unless with compound magnifiers, [etc.].

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 407 Worms..with..the sexual organs separate.

1884 Amer. Naturalist 18 779 The same portion of primary tissue develops into one sexual organ in one of the sexes and into a different organ in the other sex.

1915 Man 15 115 He was naked, but the sexual organ was covered with an apron of palm leaves.

1928 L. T. Trolfand Fund. Human Motivation vii. 117 The preliminary stages of erection, or tumescence, in both male and female, depend mainly upon vasomotor reflexes which result naturally from irritation of the sexual parts.

1965 Taxon 14 258 They [sc. bryophytes] have..a female sexual organ called archegonium.

1990 D. Bolger Journey Home (1991) i. 25 Between them Shay sat, egging them on as they mocked the size of each other's sexual parts.

2003 Science 19 Dec. 2050/1 Each year, a few babies are born with a male set of chromosomes and female sexual organs.