Editing Intercourse, Pennsylvania (section)

==In popular culture==
The village's name is often the subject of jokes relating to [[sexual intercourse]].<ref name="joke1">{{cite news | url= https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/25000275.html?dids=25000275:25000275&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+30%2C+1986&author=William+Ecenbarger%2C+Special+to+the+Tribune&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=THE+AMISH%3A+UNWILLING+STARS+OF+A+TOURISM+BOOM&pqatl=google | title= The Amish: Unwilling Stars of a Tourism Boom | author= William Ecenbarger | newspaper= [[Chicago Tribune]] | date= March 30, 1986 | access-date= March 23, 2010 | archive-date= June 4, 2011 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110604225502/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/25000275.html?dids=25000275:25000275&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+30,+1986&author=William+Ecenbarger,+Special+to+the+Tribune&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=THE+AMISH:+UNWILLING+STARS+OF+A+TOURISM+BOOM&pqatl=google | url-status= dead }}</ref> Along with that of [[Blue Ball, Pennsylvania]], which could be mistaken for the slang term "[[blue balls]]," a term for a temporary testicular and prostate fluid congestion due to prolonged and unsatisfied sexual excitement, the publishers of ''[[Eros Magazine]]'' sought mailing privileges from the postmasters of the town.<ref name="KrassnerTranscritp">Krassner (1963)</ref> Intercourse and Blue Ball are often named in lists of "delightfully-named towns" in [[Pennsylvania Dutch Country]], along with [[Gap, Pennsylvania|Gap]], [[Fertility, Pennsylvania|Fertility]], [[Mount Joy, Pennsylvania|Mount Joy]], [[Lititz, Pennsylvania|Lititz]], [[Bareville, Pennsylvania|Bareville]], [[Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania|Bird-in-Hand]] and [[Paradise, Pennsylvania|Paradise]].<ref name="Ward65">Ward's quarterly (1965) p.109 quote: ''...in such delightfully-named towns in Pennsylvania Dutchland as his native Mount Joy, and neighboring Lititz, Blue Ball, Bareville, Intercourse, Bird in Hand, and Paradise.''</ref><ref name="Anderson79">Anderson (1979) p.214 quote: ''...but anyone who names their towns Mount Joy, Intercourse, and Blue Ball can't be all bad. Obviously they have more on their minds than just religion.''</ref><ref name="Museums06">Museums Association (2006) p.61 quote: ''Which brings us to Intercourse. You can imagine my delight when I found out that the Amish call the town of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, their home. There seems to be a lot of explanations from locals trying to pass off the name as a bastardisation of 'Enter Course' and so on, but seeing as there are other local towns called Blue Ball, Bird In Hand, and Mount Joy, I suspect that the person responsible had a very juvenile sense of humour. The town sits in upstate Pennsylvania and is a tourist trap for anyone even remotely curious about the Amish way of life.''</ref><ref>Rand  McNally and Company (1978) p.52</ref><ref>Mencken (1963) p.653 quote: ''In the years since then many of these names have been changed to more elegant ones,<sup>2</sup> and others have vanished with the ghost towns they adorned, but not a few still hang on. Indeed, there are plenty of lovely specimens to match them in the East, in regions that were also frontier in their days, ''e.g.'', the famous cluster in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania: Bird in Hand, Bareville, Blue Ball, Mt. Joy, Intercourse and Paradise.''</ref>  The village's name has also been a source for humor on the [[Mennonite]] [[satire]] website ''[[The Daily Bonnet]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Frat Boys Disappointed with Visit to Intercourse, Pennsylvania|author=Andrew Unger|date=17 August 2017 |url=https://dailybonnet.com/frat-boys-disappointed-visit-intercourse-pennsylvania/|access-date=February 18, 2020|publisher=The Daily Bonnet}}</ref> in the episode ‘’[[The Old Man and the "C" Student]]’’ of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' as well as an episode of ''[[The Cleveland Show]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/how-did-intercourse-bird-in-hand-and-blue-ball-get-their-lewd-sounding-names/article_4ddfc21a-31bd-11e7-8371-cb3a5ca4bc9a.html | title=How did Intercourse, Bird-in-Hand and Blue Ball get their lewd-sounding names? }}</ref>