However, Ruth's and Naomi's story has also occasionally been interpreted as sexual in nature.

However, the term remains applicable to persons in all states, single or married, clerical or lay, and has implications beyond sexual temperance.

However, wives were usually looked after with care, and bigamous men were expected to ensure that they give their first wife food, clothing, and sexual activity.

However it should be noted that there is nothing whatever in Apollonius's account that suggests that Hylas was a sexual lover as opposed to a companion and servant.

However, while men develop longer, coarser, thicker, and darker terminal hair through sexual differentiation, women do not, leaving their vellus hair visible.

: However we may understand homosexuality, whether as an illness, as a genetically based dysfunction or as a sexual preference and lifestyle-we cannot accommodate the relationship of two homosexuals as a " marriage " within the context of Judaism, for none of the elements of qiddushin ( sanctification ) normally associated with marriage can be invoked for this relationship.

However, Sheldon's view of sexual politics could be ambiguous, as in the ending of " Houston, Houston, Do You Read ?," where a society of female clones must deal with three time-traveling male astronauts.

However, the findings are not as absolute, and Kinsey himself avoided and disapproved of using terms like homosexual or heterosexual to describe individuals, asserting that sexuality is prone to change over time, and that sexual behavior can be understood both as physical contact as well as purely psychological phenomena ( desire, sexual attraction, fantasy ).

However, with the advent of second wave feminism, lesbian as a political identity grew to describe a social philosophy among women, often overshadowing sexual desire as a defining trait.

However, lesbians who held a more essentialist view that they had been born homosexual and used the descriptor " lesbian " to define sexual attraction, often considered the separatist, angry opinions of lesbian-feminists to be detrimental to the cause of gay rights.

However, specialists suggest that several lifestyle changes such as drinking milk, exercising, quitting smoking, lower consumption of alcohol or using prescription drugs may help increase one's sexual desire.

However, a person who lacks a desire for sexual activity for some period of time may be experiencing a hypoactive sexual desire disorder or may be asexual.

However, a similar " sexual " process, known as bacterial transformation, involves transfer of DNA from one bacterium to another and recombination of these DNA molecules of different parental origin.

However, he was skeptical about Freudianism, especially after a struggle with an editor who insisted on reading Freudian sexual symbolism into his juvenile novels.

However within many religions there are also people who view the two sexual orientations positively, and many religious denominations may bless same-sex marriages and support LGBT rights, and the amount of those that do are continuously increasing around the world as much of the developed world enacts laws supporting LGBT rights.

However, she denied that she was fifteen years old when it began, saying that they met when she was sixteen and the affair only became sexual " several years later ".

However, Flori and Gillingham are nevertheless in agreement that contemporaneous accounts do not support the suggestion that Richard had a sexual relationship with King Philip II of France, as suggested by some modern authors.

However, bonobos, dolphins, and chimpanzees are known to engage in sexual intercourse even when the female is not in estrus, and to engage in sex acts with same-sex partners.

However, while the critique from the right emphasized moral degeneracy ascribed to sexual and racial influences within popular culture, Adorno located the problem not with the content, but with the objective realities of the production of mass culture and its effects, e. g. as a form of reverse psychology.

However, the vagina as a whole has insufficient nerve endings for sexual stimulation and orgasm, which is considered to make the process of child birth significantly less painful.

However, several points in the processes have been identified where variations can result in people with atypical characteristics, including atypical sexual characteristics.

However, a review of 13 U. S. sex-abstinence programs involving over 15, 000 people by Oxford University found that they do not stop risky sexual behavior, or help in the prevention of unwanted pregnancy.

However, rule consequentialism chooses rules based on the consequences that the selection of those rules have.

However, if clusters are selected with probability proportionate to size, the same number of interviews should be carried out in each sampled cluster so that each unit sampled has the same probability of selection.

However, unlike Johnson, Hodge confined the term to exclude those like Asa Gray who combined Christian faith with support for Darwin's natural selection theory, before answering the question posed in the book's title by concluding: " It is Atheism.

However, it is important to note that Butler wrote of machines developing consciousness by natural selection, not artificially, although machine algorithms are approaching a level of autonomy which could be considered natural, now.

However, many of Darwin's early supporters ( such as Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Lyell ) did not agree that the origin of the mental capacities and the moral sensibilities of humans could be explained by natural selection.

However, as the Ardfheis may have already been held in any given year by the time a new leader is elected, the selection of the new party president might not take place until the next year.

However, the effects of stage hypnosis are probably due to a combination of psychological factors, participant selection, suggestibility, physical manipulation, stagecraft, and trickery.

However, because the increased proportion of deleterious homozygotes exposes the allele to natural selection, in the long run its frequency decreases more rapidly in inbred population.

However, under Abdullah II Al-Sabah, Kuwait pursued a general pro-Ottoman foreign policy, formally taking the title of Ottoman provincial governor, however this relationship with the Ottoman Empire did result in Ottoman interference with Kuwaiti laws or selection or rulers.

However, selection bias and sampling bias are often used synonymously.

However, the concept of suppressing mutation raises the question: How can design evolution occur at the nanoscale without a process of random mutation and deterministic selection?

However, natural selection is " blind " in the sense that changes in phenotype ( physical and behavioral characteristics ) can give a reproductive advantage regardless of whether or not the trait is heritable ( non heritable traits can be the result of environmental factors or the life experience of the organism ).

However, as with natural selection above, the precise meaning of the term is much more subtle.

However, this does not imply that natural selection is always directional and results in adaptive evolution ; natural selection often results in the maintenance of the status quo by eliminating less fit variants.

However, Jim Finks's tenure as Saints general manager was a significant factor in his selection.

However, the ' politically correct ' thought agendas of the neo-Darwinists of the 1990s are ideologically opposed to the idea of ' Lamarckian Feedback ', just as the Church was opposed to the idea of evolution based on natural selection in the 1850s!

However, natural selection may favor less energetic binding as a way of regulating transcriptional output.

However, whereas in Quake, the only option was to change the color of the player's uniform unless third party modifications were used, now the game comes with a selection of three different player models: a male marine, a female marine, and a male cyborg ; choice of player model also affects the speech effects the player's character will make, such as exhaling in effort while jumping or groaning when injured.

However, a small selection of countries have set up a national body to govern the sport.

However, this was not enough to ensure his selection in the First Test, where he was made 12th man.

However, in a presidential system, the executive's term may or may not coincide with the legislature's, as their selection is technically independent of the legislature.

However, one thing was clear: whatever the exact nature and causes of new variations, Darwin knew from observation and experiment that breeders were able to select such variations and produce huge differences in many generations of selection.

However, inherited variation could be seen, and Darwin's concept of selection working on a population with a range of small variations was workable.