Sex

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Sex most commonly refers to:

• Biological sex, the trait of certain reproducing organisms producing either male or female gametes
  • Legal sex or legal gender, a legal status often but not always matching biological sex
• Human sexual activity, a broad range of reproductive or erotic human practices
  • Human sexuality, the way people express themselves in terms of, or experience, the above activities
  • Sexual intercourse, the activity of using reproductive organs penetratively
• Animal sexual behaviour, the reproductive or erotic activities of non-human animals
  • Copulation (zoology), in which a male introduces sperm to a female's body
• Sexual reproduction, reproduction that combines multiple gametes

Sex or sexual may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Other uses

• Sex (boutique), in London
• SEX (computing), an assembly language mnemonic
• Seax, or sex, a knife used by ancient Germanic peoples
• Sex, abbreviation of Sextans, a constellation
• Sodium ethyl xanthate, a chemical compound
• Sex-, the Latin prefix meaning 6
• Sex Peak, a mountain in Montana, United States
• Sexing, the act of discerning the sex of an animal
• Sexual, or allosexual, someone with a typical experience of sexual attraction

See also

• All pages with titles containing sex
• All pages with titles containing sexes
• All pages with titles containing S.E.X.
• All pages with titles beginning with sex
• SEK (disambiguation)
• S3X (disambiguation)
• SX
• Cex
• Gender (disambiguation)
• Sexuality (disambiguation)

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