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23 Mar 2006, 2:42 pm
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Peter Kreeft makes an interesting comment regarding sex vs gender.
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First insult: You are what you do. No, you are who you are. Second insult: People are not things (words) - people are persons. Using a word that describes nouns to describe persons like calling a woman "handsome" or a man "pretty" - it does not fit and is insulting. Even more reason I was right  
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31 Mar 2006, 1:47 pm
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sex just sounds more funny so thats what i voted
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9 Apr 2008, 1:47 am
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26 Apr 2008, 10:00 am
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I'll admit I've had my share of fun with these words... I early learned to use "gender", though, as I don't see any point in using "sex"... it'll only provoke an answer like "yes, please" -.-
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26 Apr 2008, 10:26 am
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Sex is an action, Gender is a noun!!!
 Well, actually, according to my Sociology Professor... Sex refers to the physical component, while gender refers to the emotional component... So a homosexual has a male sex with a female gender... Or vice versa 
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26 Apr 2008, 10:55 am
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 Otherwise - thanks for the info
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26 Apr 2008, 11:49 am
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I agree with the venerable BobCat on this one. Gender is for words, sex for people.
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26 Apr 2008, 1:07 pm
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more ancient thread-raising from Shinobu Angel
Sex isn't only for people, Betong It's for all animals, plants and inanimate objects too 
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26 Apr 2008, 1:12 pm
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1) This thread is from March, 2006. How did you FIND this?
2) Hinawrong, never...never say that again. We all know about your lamp fetish, but seriously...I just ate... 3) I prefer sex. It seems less akward. To borrow George Carlin's example... "Tom's a sicko. He told me he had gender with that woodchuck."
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26 Apr 2008, 2:06 pm
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Sponge sex is a disturbing thought.
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26 Apr 2008, 2:08 pm
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I find it attractive. But if the sponge has that rough edge, then it'll hurt quite a bit.
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26 Apr 2008, 2:08 pm
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necessary evil though, Betong, if we want to produce more sponges
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27 Apr 2008, 8:39 am
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*looks into it*
Sponges can reproduce sexually or asexually. Asexual reproduction is through internal and external budding. External budding occurs when the parent sponge grows a bud on the outside of its body. This will either break away or stay connected. Internal budding occurs when archaeocytes collect in the mesohyl and become surrounded by spongin. The internal bud is called a gemmule, and this is seen only in the freshwater sponge family, the Spongillidae. An asexually reproduced sponge has exactly the same genetic material as the parent. In sexual reproduction, sperm are dispersed by water currents and enter neighboring sponges. All sponges of a particular species release their sperm at approximately the same time. Fertilization occurs internally, in the mesohyl. Fertilized oocytes develop within the mesohyl. Cleavage stages are highly varied within and between groups, sometimes even within a single species. Larval development usually involves an odd type of morphogenetic movement termed an inversion of layers. When this occurs in some species (for example, in Sycon coactum ), the larva flips into the choanocyte chamber, and then can emerge via the water canal system and out through the osculum. Although sponges are hermaphroditic (both male and female), they are not self-fertile. Most sponges are sequential hermaphrodites, capable of producing eggs or sperm, but not both at the same time Would you credit it? 
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