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  Sex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sex refers to the male and female duality of biology and reproduction.
The female sex is defined as the one which produces the larger gamete (i.e., reproductive cell) and which typically bears the offspring.
An example of this in the article pictogram shows the man with broader shoulders (sex dimorphism) and the woman in clothing that is, in the western world, rarely worn by men, and which functions as a gender signal.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sex   (1596 words)

  
 Sex (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SEX, a boutique on Kings Road in the Chelsea district of London
Sex, a song by Frank Zappa appearing on the 1983 album The Man from Utopia.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sex_(disambiguation)   (259 words)

  
 man - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Just as in women, the sex organs of a man are part of the reproductive system, consisting of the penis, testicles, vas deferens and other sperm cords, and the prostate gland.
The secondary sex characteristics, such as body hair and muscle growth, are involved in attracting a mate or in defeating rivals.
In contrast to women, men have sex organs that are mostly considered to be external, although many parts of the male reproductive system are internal as well (such as the prostate).
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/man   (1142 words)

  
 :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::
The female sex is defined as the one which produces the larger gamete (i.e., reproductive cell) and which bears the offspring.
Sex organ "Primary" sexual characteristics are typically present at birth and directly involved in reproduction.
It shows the man with broader shoulders (sex dimorphism) and the woman in clothing that is in the western world rarely worn by men, a dress (which functions as a gender signal).
www.mauspfeil.net /sex.html   (2043 words)

  
 Rick Santorum - Encyclopedia Dramatica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.
His commentary after a Supreme Court ruling on sodomy laws was the source of many lulz for liberals and made Dan Savage mad enough to equate his name to the end result of gay sex.
Rick also made the news of the weird by bringing his wife's miscarried fetus home from the hospital so his (living but presumably traumatised) children could hug it and kiss it and say goodbye.
www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Rick_Santorum   (274 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Girl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The age at which a female person transitions from girl to woman varies in different societies; typically the transition from adolescence to maturity is taken to occur in the late teens.
From birth, girls are a slight minority due to both natural factors (the human sex ratio has been observed since the 1700s as approximately 1,050 boys for every 1,000 girls) and due to sex selection on the part of parents.
The fact that initial controversy over risque works that mix the themes of youth and sex tends to die down fairly quickly is a good indication that it is group reactionary behavior not grounded in any generally accepted ethical principles.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Girl   (2132 words)

  
 Male - Wikipedia Light!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In heterogamous species, male is the sex of an organism, or of a part of an organism, which typically produces smaller, mobile gametes (spermatozoa) that are able to fertilise female gametes (ova).
Although most species with male and female sexes have individuals that are either male or female, hermaphroditic animals have both male and female reproductive organs.
In some species of reptiles, including alligators, sex is determined by the temperature at which the egg is incubated.
www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Male   (670 words)

  
 Male - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Male is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces sperm.
The "sperm" is defined as the smaller gamete in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the larger gamete is produced by the female.
There is no single genetic mechanism behind sex differences in different species, and the existence of two sexes in one species seems to have evolved multiple times independently.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Male   (239 words)

  
 Cross-dressing - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Nearly every society throughout history has had a set of norms, views, guidelines, or laws, regarding the wearing of clothing and what is appropriate for each sex.
Many transgendered people cross-dress relative to their birth sex, but transgendered people who have undergone gender reassignment therapy are usually not regarded as cross-dressing.
Only items that were proscribed to a gender would be appropriated, and therefore it is not the general association of an item with one sex or the other but the prohibitions against the item that give satisfaction to those with a fetish attachment to cross-dressing.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Crossdressing   (2962 words)

  
 Sex -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sex, in the scope of this article and category, refers to the male and female duality of biology and reproduction.
In some lower animals, sex may be assigned to specific structures rather than the entire organism as some species, such as earthworms, are normally hermaphroditic.
A proponent of this movement away from polar oppositions, Anne Fausto-Sterling, once suggested we recognize five sexes: male, female, merm (male pseudo-hermaphrodite), ferm (female pseudo-hermaphrodite) and herm (true hermaphrodite).
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Sex   (1711 words)

  
 California Sex Offenders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The female sex isdefined as the one that produces the larger gamete (i.e., reproductive cell).
Thecategories of sex are, therefore, descriptive of the reproductive functions that an individual is capable of performing atsometime in its life cycle.
Sex Offenders Register 1: The '''Sex Offenders Register''' is useful shorthand for the informati 3: to register was originally imposed by the '' Sex Offenders Act 1997 ''.
www.witchware.com /File/22510-California.Sex.Offenders.Html   (599 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sex
In mammals, birds, and many other species, sex is determined by the sex chromosomes, called X and Y in mammals, and Z and W in birds.
However, for these people the relationships between biological factors (such as hormones) and environmental factors and the psychosocial levels of sexual identity such as gender identity and sexual orientation have proven to be complex, with plenty of exceptions to proposed theoretical systems.
The degree to which a person's gender identity is affected by hormones, by genetic factors distinct from hormones, by early education, by social factors, and by "existential choice" remains imperfectly understood and a subject of contention.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sex   (1697 words)

  
 Do Speakers Help Listeners?
Sex of the speaker and sex of the listener interacted in interesting ways with the effects of ambiguity and plausibility.
In the subject analysis, a sex of the speaker by plausibility interaction suggests that the listeners were better at using plausibility to decide between DO or SC completions when the fragments were from male speakers.
An ANOVA with factors for sex of the listener (female, male), sex of the speaker (female, male), ambiguity of the sentence (ambiguous, unambiguous), and plausibility of the verb (plausible, implausible) produced no significant effects or interactions.
www.psych.upenn.edu /~mims/699paper.html   (11669 words)

  
 Gender
Gender is commonly used as a synonym for sex, refering to males and females classified according to genetic differences and distinct primary and secondary sex characteristics.
Situations sometimes arise where sex or gender may be mimicked by inanimate objects, notably in cable connectors that have "male" and "female" counterparts.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ge/Gender.html   (199 words)

  
 1984 - Encyclopedia Dramatica
The protagonist has sex with a lot of women and then gets tortured by a government agent named Conan O'Brien.
In the image to the right, you can see the female liberates us all from the evil that is Conan O'Brien.
This is a disambiguation page — we hope you feel less ambiguated.
www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php?title=1984&redirect=no   (154 words)

  
 MAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Just as in women, the sex organs of a man are part of the reproductive system.
The secondary sex characteristics are involved in attracting a mate or in defeating rivals.
In contrast to women, men have sex organs that are mostly considered to be external, although many parts of the male reproductive system are internal as well.
www.33beat.com /MAN.html   (715 words)

  
 Pediatric Ethics And The Surgical Assignment Of Sex
that 100-200 pediatric surgical sex reassignments are performed in the United States annually, and that, globally, thousands of these procedures have been done since the initial publication of the twins case (estimate by Dr. William Reiner in Colapinto).
Particularly in the West, it is taken for granted that humanity comes in two mutually exclusive sexes, that these are readily distinguishable at birth by the presence or absence of a penis which, in turn, signals a vast array of other permanent physiological and behavioral variations, both present and in the developmental future.
Because this evidence is lacking, the surgical assignment of sex remains an experimental procedure: one in which the results cannot be properly assessed until at least 20 years after the intervention.
www.hawaii.edu /PCSS/online_artcls/intersex/ethics.html   (7208 words)

  
 Female - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces ovum (egg cells).
The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon is produced by the male.
In humans, there are several different components (in addition to genetics) to both biological sex and gender identity by which people assign the label "female".
female.quickseek.com   (592 words)

  
 Introduction to Sociology/Family - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
For example, most kinship terminologies distinguish between sexes (this is the difference between a brother and a sister) and between generation (this is the difference between a child and a parent).
Eskimo: has both classificatory and descriptive terms; in addition to sex and generation, also distinguishes between lineal relatives (who are related directly by a line of descent) and collateral relatives (who are related by blood, but not directly in the line of descent).
Siblings of the same sex are considered blood relatives, but siblings of the opposite sex are considered relatives by marriage.
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Introduction_to_Sociology/Family   (2279 words)

  
 Age of consent -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Social (and the resulting legal) attitudes toward the appropriate age of consent have drifted upwards in modern times; while ages from ten through to thirteen were typically acceptable in the mid Nineteenth Century, fifteen through to eighteen had become the norm in many countries by the end of the Twentieth Century.
The AoC is a legal barrier to the minor being able to give consent and as such obtaining consent is not in general a defence to having sexual relations with a person under the prescribed age.
However, the U.S. Congress has passed laws dealing with sex offenders that have effectively raised the age of consent throughout the United States to 18, which is also the age of majority for most purposes (not drinking alcohol).
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Age_of_consent   (1672 words)

  
 Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
They are associated with cultures that place a high value on personal responsibility, keeping one's word, and maintaining personal standing in the face of misfortune; in other words, with "cultures of honor".
Anthropologists have also noticed relationships between natural sex roles and the sorts of games played by members of the two sexes.
Music, including communal chanting and hand clapping, is frequently a component in games played by human females; it seldom plays an important role in the games played by males.
www.objectsspace.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Game   (945 words)

  
 British Sex -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Yvonne Tink, the vice president of the party, a sex educator, and organizer of alternative sexuality events through her company http://www.bioentertainment.com/ BIO Event Production, won 69 votes (0.37% of the total) in Vancouver-Kingsway.
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols original UK album cover Original UK release album cover - album covers are fair use.
Alteripse 05:15, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC) ::I am not sure whether you were the one who wrote it or not, but the problem I see is with the chart in the section on "Sex in humans." It assumes that what is statistically the most common is the only way nature works.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/23/british-sex.html   (1201 words)

  
 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Personal life
See life (disambiguation) for other senses of the word.
Many people separate their overall lives into individual strands: their "intellectual lives", their "working lives", their "family lives" and their "sex lives".
The religiously inclined may have "spiritual lives" or "religious lives" intertwined with their everyday activities; they usually also expect an afterlife (for some the most important thing).
www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Personal_life   (403 words)

  
 Female Biography,info
The mirror of the Roman Goddess Venus is often used to represent the female sex.
Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces ova (egg cells).
Bacteria of the genus Wolbachia alter their sex; some species consist entirely of ZZ individuals, with sex determined by the presence of Wolbachia.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Female   (676 words)

  
 Bits (Linux Reviews)
It has often been recommended to use "bit" for the bit and "b" for the byte, to prevent confusion with the unit bel, B. However, "b" is often used for bit and "B" for byte.
The IEC recommends to use only "bit" and "B" for maximum disambiguation.
Since the bel is almost never used by itself (only used as a decibel, dB) the chances of conflict are small.
linuxreviews.org /dictionary/Bits   (470 words)

  
 Man - Gurupedia
The term man (irregular plural: men) is used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions, or both.
Biological factors are usually not the sole determinants of whether a person considers themselves as man or is considered a man or not, for example, it is estimated that one in 100,000 people are men who have been born without a typical male physiology (that is, they are transgendered or
transsexual men), or some men can have an abnormal hormone or chromosomal difference (such as androgen insensitivity syndrome), or another intersex condition; some of those intersex people who have had a male sex assigned at birth sought to reassign their sex later in their lives (and vice versa.
www.gurupedia.com /m/ma/man.htm   (316 words)

  
 I cite: 'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'
It suggests that one thinks that there is something particularly bad or degrading about sex work and something unseemly about sex workers.
Support suggests that one sees no difficulty in forcing women to have sex against their will, that one supports a form of bureaucratized rape.
The tension around forced sex work points to a more fundamental problem in the ways that the state serves the market.
jdeanicite.typepad.com /i_cite/2005/01/if_you_dont_tak.html   (852 words)

  
 :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
For other meanings see Dwarf (disambiguation).}} A '''dwarf''' is a short humanoid creature in Norse mythology, fairy tales, fantasy fiction and role-playing game role-playing games.
A more cynical suspicion is that female dwarves lack sex appeal and consequently are of little interest to fantasy fans (stereotypically young men).
In the ''Discworld'' novels, Terry Pratchett says that this is a major problem for dwarves, and states that the point of dwarfish relationships is to 'tactfully find out which sex the other one is ''under that beard'' '.
www.mauspfeil.net /Dwarf.html   (1589 words)

  
 HBO
HBO (Home Box Office) is a pay cable television network in the United States which airs Hollywood movies, self-produced full-length feature films, and various weekly series.
HBO is a subscription-only service and does not carry normal commercials; both of these factors relieve HBO from pressures to tone down controvesial aspects in their programs, thus allowing for explicit themes, such as graphic violence, explicit sex and profanity.
These are shows that are either currently on HBO or have been on it in the past.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/h/hb/hbo.html   (233 words)

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