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Sex segregation
Sex segregation is the separation of people by sex in workplaces, schools, facilities, and public life. Also called gender segregation, it spans occupational segregation (Reskin, Charles), sex-separated restrooms, single-sex schooling, and sport, with divergent legal treatment in US and UK law.
Sex segregation in Saudi Arabia
Sex segregation in Saudi Arabia separates unrelated men and women in public spaces, workplaces, and schools; ikhtilat (mixing) was long the contested concept, enforced by the Mutaween, then relaxed after 2016 Vision 2030 reforms lifted driving and guardianship restrictions.
Sex selection
Sex selection: choosing a child's sex via sperm sorting or PGD with IVF, or through prenatal sex-determined abortion; used medically for sex-linked disease, opposed for nonmedical reasons by ACOG, ASRM, FIGO, and HFEA.
Sex shop
A sex shop, also called an adult bookstore or porn shop, is a retailer selling sexual products. Beate Uhse opened the first one in Flensburg, Germany, in 1962.
Sex show
Sex show: a paid live performance of sexual acts, spanning peep show booths, strip and burlesque venues, and stage theaters such as Amsterdam's Casa Rosso, with roots in 16th-century raree shows and a modern webcam industry.
Sex swing
Sex swing: a harness or sling suspending a person from above for sexual activity, a form of sex furniture. Types include conventional, sling, door, stand, and ceiling-mounted; safety depends on anchor strength and verified weight ratings.
Sex symbol
Sex symbol: a celebrity whose public image centers on sexual attractiveness, tied to the Hollywood star system; classic example Marilyn Monroe, male cases debated (Daniel Craig), with documented effects tied to objectification and sexualization.
Sex Tape (film)
Sex Tape is a 2014 American comedy directed by Jake Kasdan, reuniting Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel as a married couple whose sex video syncs to friends' iPads.
Sex therapy
Sex therapy: a psychotherapy subspecialty treating sexual concerns like desire, arousal, and pain. Founded on Masters and Johnson's 1966–1970 behavioral work; AASECT offers voluntary certification requiring 90 hours sexuality training, 60 hours therapy training, and 50 supervision hours.
Sex tourism
Sex tourism is travel planned primarily for purchasing sexual services, often to destinations with permissive sex work laws or enforcement. Rooted in colonialism and military presence; distinct from, though overlapping with, sex trafficking; child sex tourism is criminalized extraterritorially.
Sex toy
A sex toy, also known as an adult toy or marital aid, is an object designed for sexual pleasure, including vibrators, masturbators, anal devices, and app-controlled products.
Sex toy industry
The sex toy industry comprises the manufacturers, brands, and retailers of vibrators, dildos, and app-connected devices, a market estimated between USD 3.2 billion and USD 46.5 billion depending on definition.
Sex trafficking
Sex trafficking: forcing someone into commercial sex through coercion, fraud, or abuse of vulnerability, as defined by the 2000 Palermo Protocol; distinct from consensual sex work, though conflation, unreliable online-ad indicators, and weak prevalence data complicate identification.
Sex trafficking in Dubai
Sex trafficking in Dubai: exploitation of migrant women and girls for commercial sex in the UAE's largest city. Victims come from Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, East Africa, and Eastern Europe; US Tier 2 rating; Federal Law 24 of 2023 governs; ICIJ and State Department document recruitment fraud, debt bondage, and shelter gaps.
Sex trafficking in the United States
Sex trafficking in the United States: commercial sex induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or involving minors, under the TVPA of 2000; covers the 3P framework, T visas, Polaris hotline typology, prevalence-data limits, and myths like the Super Bowl claim.
Sex verification and intersex athletes at the Olympic Games
Sex verification and intersex athletes at the Olympic Games: chromosome testing 1968-1998, DSD rules and the Caster Semenya litigation, Paris 2024 boxing controversy, and the IOC's 2026 SRY gene test policy.
Sex verification in sports
Sex verification in sports (sex testing, gender verification): governing-body screening of athletes for female-category eligibility, from nude parades and Barr body tests (1966–1968) through SRY PCR testing (1992–2000) to World Athletics' 2025 and IOC's 2026 reinstated SRY screening.
Sex Weather
Sex Weather is a 2018 American independent comedy-drama directed and written by Jon Garcia, starring Al'Jaleel McGhee and Amber Stonebraker as former crew members who spend a day in bed after a hookup; 89 minutes, Breaking Glass Pictures.
Sex work
Sex work is the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation, including pornography. Also called prostitution by critics, it spans four legal models (criminalization, Nordic, legalization, decriminalization), has a rights movement dating to COYOTE in 1973, and gained full labor rights in Belgium in 2024.
Sex worker
Sex worker: an adult providing consensual sexual services for pay, spanning street, indoor, and online work. Distinguished from trafficking; 168 countries criminalize some aspect; HIV risk nine times higher; decriminalized in New Zealand (2003) and Belgium (2022).
Sex-determination system
Sex-determination system: the mechanism setting male, female, or hermaphrodite development. Includes XY (mammals, SRY), ZW (birds, butterflies), haplodiploidy (bees, ants), and temperature-dependent determination in reptiles.
Sex-lethal splicing factor
Sex-lethal (Sxl) is the master switch gene of Drosophila sex determination and dosage compensation, encoding a female-specific RNA binding protein that controls splicing of transformer and its own transcript and represses msl-2 translation.
Sex-positive feminism
Sex-positive feminism, also called pro-sex or sex-radical feminism, is a current arising in the early 1980s during the feminist sex wars; it affirms sexual pleasure and opposes legal or social control of consensual adult sexual activity, conflicting with anti-pornography feminism.
Sex-positive movement
Sex-positive movement: also sex-positive or pro-sex feminism, a current treating consensual sexuality and pleasure as healthy, arising in the 1980s feminist sex wars against anti-pornography feminism, later shaping HIV prevention, sex education, and sexology.
Sex-selective abortion
Sex-selective abortion: terminating a pregnancy because the fetus is female, driven by son preference, fertility decline, and ultrasound or NIPT sex determination; it inflates sex ratios at birth in China, India, South Korea, the Caucasus, and diasporas.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
sex, lies, and videotape (1989) is Steven Soderbergh's debut drama, starring James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, and Laura San Giacomo; made for $1.2 million, it won the 1989 Palme d'Or and Sundance Audience Award and kickstarted the 1990s American indie boom.
Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll
Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll is Social Distortion's sixth studio album, released September 28, 2004 on Time Bomb after an eight-year gap; a tribute to late guitarist Dennis Danell, led by the hit "Reach for the Sky."
Sex.com
Sex.com is an internet domain name registered by Gary Kremen in 1994 and stolen through a forged letter, producing the $65 million judgment in Kremen v. Cohen.
Sex/Life
Sex/Life, Netflix erotic dramedy created by Stacy Rukeyser from BB Easton's memoir 44 Chapters About 4 Men, starring Sarah Shahi; premiered June 25, 2021, reached 67 million households in 30 days, canceled April 2023 after two seasons.
Sex141
Sex141 is a Hong Kong website that provides advertising for sex workers. It operates under the "141" format, which allows individual workers to advertise from rented apartments.