### communication | intercommunication | sharing:

Resource sharing
* involves cooperative action by at least two libraries or library systems.
* is an increasingly important component of library collections and services
  - common in libraries
  - the key to saving time and money

### communication | intercourse:

Anal intercourse
* is especially risky due to the delicate tissue involved
  - sexual perversion
* is the least frequently practiced form of anal sex
* stretches the opening to the size required for a large bowel movement.

### communication | intercourse:

Sexual intercourse
* is another easy way to damage the hymen along with horseback riding and biking
  - the natural and most common way to make a baby
+ Hymen, What might damage the hymen: Anatomy of the female reproductive system
  * When a girl reaches puberty, the hymen becomes stretchy. Sexual intercourse is another easy way to damage the hymen along with horseback riding and biking. The hymen usually breaks after having sexual intercourse, so in some cultures, women with hymens were seen as virgins. A woman's hymen can also break while playing some sports  and some women are also born without a hymen.
+ Sexual intercourse, Reproduction: Biological reproduction :: Human sexuality
  * Sexual intercourse is the natural and most common way to make a baby. It involves a man and woman having sex without birth control until the man ejaculates, or releases, semen from his penis into the woman's vagina. If this works, the now fertilized ovum sticks to the side of the uterus and the woman becomes pregnant. The fertilized ovum then develops into a human. Medically, it is called a pregnancy until birth.

Unprotected intercourse
* can result in sexually transmitted diseases.
* is the riskiest sexual behavior.

Vaginal intercourse
* can cause pregnancy
  - drive bacteria present on the vulva into the urethra
* is the preferred method of many men.

Intercultural communication
* fact of life in today's world.
* is the most important form of communication that exists.
* occurs among and between individuals of different societies
  - when individuals or groups form contact and exchange messages

### communication:

Interpersonal communication
* has a content and relationship dimension.
* involves two individuals.
* is always impaired
  - central to the study of human communication
  - contextual
  - controlled by feedback of information, as is all voluntary behaviour
  - different in a virtual classroom
  - fast, and allows two-way feedback
  - governed by rules
  - occurs when two or more people interact through communication
  - out of fashion in a world of cell phones
  - sort of a combination of psychology, linguistics and sociology
  - stressed in everyday interaction
  - the communication that takes place between persons
* takes place in several modes and by different channels
  - time, especially to sustain increases in condom use

Lack of communication
* can be a big problem in the workplace
  - the source of stress and strain
  - lead to unsatisfying and unsafe sex
* causes more problems between people than any other single thing.
* increases the perception of being compartmentalized.
* inhibits the interaction between people.
* is the most common cause of customer dissatisfaction in the service industry.
* primary root cause of divorce.

Mass communication
* examines issues of creating, distributing, and receiving mass media messages.
* involves the creation, dissemination, and reception of many kinds of messages.
* is communicating
  - in printed form
  - issuing
  - one of the most powerful forces yet invented
  - social events
  - targeted at a disperse audience
* models for the study of mass communications.
* powerful and complex set of processes.