Definitions


My prompt:

Generate 20 extended definitions of sex that (1) take the task of rigorous definition seriously and (2) grapple with the complexity and variety of 21st-century sexual behaviour.

Each definition should reflect the perspective (imaginatively projected or historically expressed) of a single 20th-century intellectual *not known for their work on sex* (so no sexologists or gender theorists).

NOTE: Each entry should work as a definition. *Rigorously* check for each one: does it exclude any of the acts typically included under the relatively broad 21st-century "sex" category? Does it include obviously non-sexual acts?

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Responses: GPT 5.2 Thinking, Kimi K2 Thinking, Gemini 3 Pro,

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