Examples of sex in the following topics:
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- It is important to distinguish between sex and gender.
- Sex refers to a person's biological make-up as male or female.
- Scientists have linked a person's 23rd chromosome to the development of a sexed phenotype.
- Male and female are generally understood as discrete categories, often referred to as "opposite" sexes.
- Is this a question of sex, gender or simply sexism?
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- Sexual orientation refers to enduring emotional, romantic and sexual attraction to the opposite sex, the same sex, both, or neither.
- Sexual orientation describes an enduring pattern of attraction—emotional, romantic, sexual, or some combination of these—to the opposite sex, the same sex, both, or neither.
- Some of these institutions offer sexual reorientation therapies in which individuals who are attracted to members of the opposite sex but do not want to have those attractions can try to become solely attracted to members of the opposite biological sex.
- Venn diagram depicting the relationships between assigned sex and sexual orientation.
- Androphilia and gynephilia are preferred terms for some populations, because homosexual and heterosexual assign a sex to the person being described.
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- Uganda, for example, criminalizes non-heterosexual sex acts and most Ugandans consider non-heterosexuality to be taboo.
- Under the statues of the bill, individuals convicted of a single act of non-heterosexual sex would receive life imprisonment.
- Most evidently, same-sex couples are not allowed to wed in most states.
- According to this act, the federal government cannot recognize gay marriages, and a state that does not recognize gay marriage does not have to accept the marriage license given to a same-sex couple in a different state that does recognize same-sex marriages.
- Laws regarding same-sex marriage vary by state in the U.S.
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- a desire to live as married when same-sex marriages and / or polyamory are not legal
- the average same-sex couple is older than the average heterosexual couple
- the average same-sex couple is more educated than the average heterosexual couple
- female same-sex couples are more likely to divorce than are male same-sex couples
- Are children raised by same-sex parents more likely to be lesbian, gay, or even bisexual or asexual?
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- Sociologists make a distinction between gender and sex.
- Sociologists further distinguish between cis sex/gender people and trans sex/ gender people.
- Cis sex/gender people are those who conform to the existing notions of sex and gender within a given social, historical, cultural, political, and scientific context.
- Trans sex/gender people are those who do not conform to the existing notions of sex and gender within a given social, historical, cultural, political, and scientific context.
- However, gender - like sex - is fluid and can change.
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- In the United States, although same-sex marriages are not recognized federally, same-sex couples can legally marry in six states (Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont) and the District of Columbia and receive state-level benefits.
- Currently, the legal concept of marriage is expanding to include same-sex marriage in some areas as well.
- Same-sex is marriage between two persons of the same biological sex or gender identity.
- Supporters of legal recognition for same-sex marriage typically refer to such recognition as marriage equality.
- In the United States, although same-sex marriages are not recognized federally, same-sex couples can legally marry in six states (Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont) and the District of Columbia and receive state-level benefits.
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- An issue that has been central to the LGBT rights movement since the late 1980s is same-sex marriage.
- In response to same sex couples' attempts to gain state marriage licenses, the U.S.
- Nonetheless, by the early 2000s, many states began to consider legalizing same-sex marriage.
- Other states have passed laws allowing for same-sex civil unions.
- Challenges to bans on same-sex marriage contend that laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are discriminatory.
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- One parent households, cohabitation, same sex families, and voluntary childless couples are increasingly common.
- As of 2009, only two states in the United States recognized marriages between same-sex partners, Massachusetts and Iowa, where same-sex marriage was formally allowed as of May 17, 2004 and April 2009, respectively.
- Three additional states allow same-sex civil unions, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Vermont.
- Between May 2004 and December 2006, 7,341 same-sex couples married in Massachusetts.
- Summarize the prevalence of single parents, cohabitation, same-sex couples, and unmarried individuals
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- Social theorists have sought to determine the specific nature of gender in relation to biological sex and sexuality.
- Twenge (1997) noted that, although men are generally more masculine than women and women generally more feminine than men, the association between biological sex and masculinity/femininity is waning.
- It is important to note that, though sex and gender are terms often used interchangeably, they are actually very different (though sometimes related) concepts.
- Sex and gender research, therefore, focus on different areas of study.
- Sex refers to physical or physiological differences between males and females, including both primary and secondary sex characteristics; sexuality refers to a person's sexual and erotic attractions, desires and behaviors.
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- Sex crimes are forms of human sexual behavior that are crimes.
- Someone who commits one is said to be a sex offender.
- Some sex crimes are crimes of violence that involve sex.
- Someone who commits one is said to be a sex offender.
- Some sex crimes are crimes of violence that involve sex.