法界次第初門 1.227

1.227

Third, the precept against sexual misconduct. What is meant by sexual misconduct? If a woman is protected by her parents, brothers, sisters, husband, or sons, or protected by worldly law or royal law, or protected by the preceptual dharmas of having gone forth; or even one's own wife having undertaken the one-day preceptual vows, or when she is pregnant, nursing an infant, or in non-canonical orifices—transgressing in these ways is named sexual misconduct. If one does not do this, it is named the precept against sexual misconduct. The rest—such as verbal teasing, arranging by means of gifts, or even holding hands and touching the body without carrying out the act of intercourse—are all preliminary expedients of sexual misconduct, not the primary offense.