What do you think more people should experience as part of their journey of exploring their sexuality that, in your opinion, not enough people have tried?

  • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
    39·
    11 days ago

    Why didn’t we keep the old words for the old concepts and make new ones for the new concepts? Who is deciding all this? In another thread they said male and female aren’t used for reproductive systems differences anymore, are they right or are you?

    • PhenomenalPancake@lemmy.worldOPM
      8·
      11 days ago

      You can use male and female for those as long as it’s clear what context you’re using them in. You can say male and female reproductive system and people will know what you’re talking about, but you can a person male or female, are you talking about their gender, their biological sex, or are you exclusively referring to cis people of that category? Also, you can use whatever terminology you want, just be clear who you’re talking about. Gender identity and biological sex are both meaningful when talking about sexuality, so who you actually refer to when you use ambiguous terms matters. Trans women are women, a gender identity term, even if they have male genitalia, a biological sex term, but are they as people male or female? That’s why they added AMAB and AFAB to the vocabulary: It tells you exactly what category you’re referring to. Male and female can mean either sex or gender, so they’re typically for situations in which they mean the same thing, so not suitable for a set of humans in which they are not the same thing.