Sex
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- "Sex, as we know, is a heat-seeking missile that forever seeks out the newest medium for its transmission." --(Gerard Van Der Leun, 1993)
- "Human sexuality is, quite apart from Christian repressions, a highly questionable phenomenon, and belongs, at least potentially, among the extreme rather than the ordinary experiences of humanity. Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself." --Susan Sontag in the The Pornographic Imagination
- Template:Countable Either of two main divisions (either male or female) into which many organisms can be placed, according to reproductive function or organs; gender.
- What sex is that hamster?
- The abnormality is found in both sexes.
- Template:Uncountable The distinguishing property, quality, or assemblage of properties by which organisms are classified as female or male on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions; the set of properties by which male is distinguished from female.
- The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, sex, and other factors.
- The researchers divided the subjects by sex.
- Template:Uncountable Sexual intercourse; the act of sexual intercourse.
- All you ever think about is sex.
- We had sex in the back seat.
- Template:Euphemism Genitalia; a penis or vagina.
- Template:Dated the sex. Women; womankind. Also, the fair sex, the fairer sex, the whimsical sex.
- 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, chapter 1, Google Books
- ...unless it was with his sister-in-law, my father's wife and my mother,—my uncle Toby scarce exchanged three words with the sex in as many years...
- 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dying Detective, paragraph 2, Google Books
- He disliked and distrusted the sex, but he was always a chivalrous opponent.
- 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, chapter 1, Google Books
Synonyms
- Template:Sense gender, sexuality
- Template:Sense coitus, sexual intercourse; see WikiSaurus:sexual intercourse
' comprises a broad range of behavior and processes, including the physiological, psychological, social, cultural, political, philosophical, ethical, moral, theological, legal and spiritual or religious aspects of sex and human sexual behavior.
See also
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