Concept

Biological sex

Overview

biological system that determines an individual's sexually reproductive functions

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We can now declare what form the sexual life of the child takes before the primacy of the genitals is established. This primacy is prepared in the first infantile epoch prior to the latent period, and is continuously organized from puberty on. There is in this early period a sort of loose organization, which we shall call _pre-genital_. In the foreground of this phase, however, the partial instincts of the genitals…
Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Close in meaning to Biological sex; the term itself is not named.
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The erogenous quality may adhere most notably to definite regions of the body. As is shown by the example of thumbsucking, there are predestined erogenous zones.
Sigmund Freud, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
Close in meaning to Biological sex; the term itself is not named.
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Sexual selection depends on the success of certain individuals over others of the same sex, in relation to the propagation of the species; whilst natural selection depends on the success of both sexes, at all ages, in relation to the general conditions of life. The sexual struggle is of two kinds; in the one it is between individuals of the same sex, generally the males, in order to drive away or kill their rivals…
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Close in meaning to Biological sex; the term itself is not named.
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