2) chivalry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...increasingly evident in the later Middle Ages. Courtly love often deteriorated into promiscuity and adultery and pious militance into barbarous warfare. Moreover,...

3) child abuse. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...shame and guilt, or suicidal and homicidal thoughts or to engage in criminal activity, promiscuity, and substance abuse. 4 Intervention in Child Abuse CasesIn the...

4) AIDS, in medicine. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of sharing needles have been impeded by those who feel that such education gives license to promiscuity and immoral behaviors. 11 BibliographySee S. Sontag, AIDS...