Talk:Sex

Requested move

• Oppose This is clearly a joke. If you put 20 disambig pages ahead of the page everyone is looking for (sex is the most viewed non-topical article on Wikipedia) everyone would still find it and vandalize the talk page just as much because they can't vandalize the article because it is protected. 199.125.109.88 (talk) 03:05, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

There was a request to move the page Sex (disambiguation) to Sex, but there was no consensus found for the move. Dekimasuよ! 07:55, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Severius NEEDS TO LEARN HOW TO TROLL

Eehh... Someone really messed up the page... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.145.139.167 (talk) 17:20, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Meanings of 'sex'

Is there a particular reason why Sexual dimorphism is listed as the first likely intended target of someone searching for 'sex', but Gender and Human sexuality are down in the See Also section? In the past it was more common to use the word 'sex' than 'gender' to define an animal's or person's classification as male or female, so 'sex' seems a very likely search term for someone looking for Gender. I would like to add Animal sexual behaviour and Sexing (both valid meanings of the word 'sex' - one a broad noun, one a verb) but I'm wondering whether to reorganise these categories at the same time, using the top section only for interpretations of the word 'sex' itself. ~ Kimelea (talk) 18:59, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Now done. ~ Kimelea (talk) 07:43, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Sex and gender are not synonymous

That the meaning of sex listed, with reference to male vs. female (vs. non-binary standing), is represented as gender, is very misleading. Sex as a descriptor of physicality of genitalia is not gender. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Madysonegan (talk • contribs) 06:12, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Madysonegan, people commonly see sex and gender as synonymous, as made clear in the Gender and Sex and gender distinction articles. Flyer22 (talk) 12:29, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Linking

Sharif Uddin, regarding this, this and this, there is no need to link sexual activity, which redirects to the Human sexual activity article...which is already linked on the page. That is unnecessary overlinking. There is also no need to link Copulation (zoology). Copulation redirects to the Sexual intercourse article, which is already linked on the page, and the Copulation (zoology) article is specifically about non-human animals. The line in question is not solely about non-human animals.

Pinging In ictu oculi and Bkonrad for their thoughts on this since they also fixed up this page. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 20:02, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

I'm also not sure that your sex drive addition needs to be on the page. If we are to retain it, it perhaps should not be under "Animal sexual behavior" since sex drive is not a behavior. That stated, it obviously affects sexual behavior. You originally placed it elsewhere on the page. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 20:21, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Page move

@Amakuru shouldn't this page move to Sex? Katzrockso (talk) 11:57, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Yes, I've just done that :) See discussion at WP:RM/TR, there are a lot of incoming links but we can sort them out now anyway I hope.  — Amakuru (talk) 11:58, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

@Amakuru: As promised, I was good for a few hundred dabfixes. Taking a break for now, but just to note briefly for anyone else dabfixing here:

1. As Amakuru noted, many of these are overlinks. I've unlinked quite a few with DisamAssist, but I've been dabfixing ones that are in longer lists of also-probably-overlinked terms, since that's a bigger problem than I have time to fix right now, and also occasionally maybe it's not overlinking in those cases. But a good number of the dabfixes I've done could probably just be unlinked instead by someone with the time to look a bit more carefully.
2. Very few links seem to refer clearly just to sexual intercourse and not human sexual activity more generally. Where it could go either way, in most cases there's no harm in just linking the latter, as it's the superset of the former. That said, I've {{dn}}'d a few where that wouldn't be logically true, e.g. "he is opposed to sex before marriage". (Sidenote, Sexual intercourse really should probably be at Penis-in-vagina sex. Its own footnote justifying the current title actually establishes the opposite, that the term is ambiguous, even if it mostly means PIV sex.)
3. I've also {{dn}}'d a smaller number of cases where someone might have been referring either to the abstract concept of biological sex (usually in the feminist sense) or the abstract concept of human sexual activity.
4. I've made one addition to the old DAB, adding Sexual reproduction to the lede. A number of articles use "sex" to refer to that in a way broader than just humans or just animals. I'm not sure whether they should (perhaps WP:BIOLOGY would like to weigh in), but either way it's a common enough usage.

-- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 13:38, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

I've also added links to Copulation (zoology) and Legal sex. The latter is a particularly tricky one to dabfix, because whether "sex" refers to biology or legal status in a given context can be a complicated legal question. For instance, in most U.S. states, "sex" on a birth certificate refers to legal sex, but "sex" for the purposes of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 refers to biological sex (see Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC). So when I've seen articles with statements like "It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of sex in X", I've erred on the side of linking to biological over legal; but in some cases legal may be more accurate. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 16:28, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! I did not see that discussion at the time. Katzrockso (talk) 20:53, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

"Pseques" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Sexs" listed at Redirects for discussion

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