I literally meant intercourse in the dictionary meaning: "communication or dealings between individuals or groups." Even so words change and usage does too; some people literally don't mean literally when they use that word, but I do. I suppose it's a matter of when you learned the definition.

> Humor aside, intercourse and discourse are synonyms.

TIL, thanks. I've never heard the term "public intercourse" before, always "public discourse", so I thought it was a typo.