Sex (disambiguation)
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
For the numerical prefix sexa- see Wiktionary.
Sex has a number of common meanings:
- Sexual intercourse - the physical acts related to sexual reproduction.
- A biological distinction between two or more categories (sexes), such as male and female, which combine genetic material to reproduce. Sometimes referred to as genders, although some linguists object to this.
- A general topic of human or animal behavior. See human sexual behavior or human sexuality.
Other things named Sex or SEX include:
- Sex is a 1926 play by Mae West.
- Sex is a 1991 book by entertainer Madonna and photographer Steven Meisel.
- Sex: The Annabel Chong Story is a 1999 documentary film about porn star Annabel Chong.
- SEX was a boutique on Kings Road in the Chelsea district of London. Owned by Malcolm McLaren, it was a seminal location in the emerging punk rock scene in the mid-1970s.
- The "SEX" assembly language mnemonic is often used for the "Sign EXtend" machine instruction found in the PDP-11 and many other computer architectures.
- SEX is also a good mnemonic for advice about writing essays. It stands for Sentence, Explanation, and eXample.
