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Originally Posted by Janette55
I am not trying to start an argument, but in fact sex is the wrong word.
Sex is a action between two being (generally for procreation, but also for enjoyment), whether human or other; and it doesn't matter what gender, such as m/m, f/f, f/m or even a combination.
Gender is the idenfication of, to put it crudely, what is between your legs.
A Male has a penis a female has a vagina. (sorry Freud, it wasn't penis envy, women were envious of the freedom a man had, not their equipment). Your sexual organs states if you are male or female gender.
And that can even be off in that aspect; for our true gender is determined by the gland at the back of your head (can't remember what it is called) that send the hormone for whatever gender you are, testertone for a male and estrogen for a female.
And I won't go into the androgeneous individuals, who were born with both gender organs.
Okay, enough of biopsychology, I HATED that class.
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I learned differently than you, Janette55:
Gender is that set of characteristics that distinguish between male and female. These are not
physical characteristics. It
can include sex, meaning the biological set of characteristics that distinguish from male and female (penis and vagina). However, more often than not, it ranges from social role to gender identity. Gender is also a social construct that is put in place from the moment you are born and a doctor declares you to be male or female. The divide between sex as biology and gender as role was first established in 1955. It's true that "gender" has come to describe, in common usage, "sex," but there is a growing push, especially in feminist circles, to make the distinction between sex as a specific set of organs, and gender as a social construct.