Health

Wed Jan 18

What’s the point of sex? It frames gender expression and identity – or does it?

Written by Jayne Lucke, Professor & Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University

Social definitions of sex tend to oversimplify the biological determinants of gender and anatomy. renawgraphy/flickr , CC BY-SA

The act of penetrative sex has evolved over millions of years as a mechanism to deliver sperm to eggs and initiate pregnancy. But there’s more to sex than just the meeting of two sets of genes. The...

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