SEX IN ASIA: Turning Up the Heat

By ANTHONY SPAETH Monday, Mar. 19, 2001
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SEX n. 1 either of two divisions, male or female, into which persons, animals, or plants are divided 2 the character of being male or female 3 the attraction between the sexes 4 sexual intercourse.

That's it? No wonder adolescents find the dictionary such a poor source of sex education. It's a small word, but how ungenerous can Mr. Webster be? Isn't sex something unbelievably profound: the very issue upon which the shoulder-perched angel and devil debate, the very act by which all of us were forged and, last but not least, the powerful, enigmatic engines in our...

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