Sex & Gender

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Gender Exploration

sapphire14 Jan 2024 18:57 UTC

124 points

27 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

(open.substack.com)

Blanchard’s Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer

Zack_M_Davis8 Jul 2023 18:03 UTC

36 points

135 comments72 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

Of Gender and Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Apr 2009 0:56 UTC

65 points

361 comments5 min readLW link

Estrogen: A trip report

cube_flipper15 Jun 2025 13:15 UTC

167 points

42 comments27 min readLW link

(smoothbrains.net)

Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky’s Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems

Zack_M_Davis3 May 2021 4:31 UTC

54 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles

Zack_M_Davis2 Mar 2024 22:05 UTC

34 points

25 comments58 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

What Boston Can Teach Us About What a Woman Is

ymeskhout1 May 2023 15:34 UTC

18 points

45 comments12 min readLW link

Why I Transitioned: A Third (FtM) Perspective

Character#273623 Feb 2026 4:39 UTC

32 points

6 comments14 min readLW link

Sayeth the Girl

Alicorn19 Jul 2009 22:24 UTC

82 points

504 comments3 min readLW link

Empathy/Systemizing Quotient is a poor/biased model for the autism/sex link

tailcalled4 Nov 2024 21:11 UTC

48 points

1 comment7 min readLW link 1 review

A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning

Zack_M_Davis15 Jul 2023 17:57 UTC

28 points

121 comments73 min readLW link 1 review

(unremediatedgender.space)

Ethicality Behind Breaking the Glass Ceiling

foxacc14 Mar 2022 17:56 UTC

31 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Why Are Women Hot?

Jacob Falkovich18 Dec 2022 23:20 UTC

17 points

19 comments11 min readLW link

The Skewed and the Screwed: When Mating Meets Politics

Jacob Falkovich29 Jan 2020 15:50 UTC

62 points

6 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

Failed Utopia #4-2

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jan 2009 11:04 UTC

157 points

275 comments9 min readLW link

Women should be able to open things

KatjaGrace21 May 2026 3:50 UTC

371 points

139 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Why I Transitioned: A Response

quinoa marisa20 Jan 2026 2:06 UTC

162 points

48 comments10 min readLW link

Notes on Chastity

David Gross11 Dec 2020 22:01 UTC

26 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Book Review—The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution

Zack_M_Davis21 Jan 2020 6:28 UTC

27 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

My Way

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Apr 2009 1:25 UTC

49 points

126 comments7 min readLW link

Autogynephilia discourse is so absurdly bad on all sides

tailcalled23 Jul 2023 13:12 UTC

44 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

A Book Review

Zack_M_Davis28 Apr 2020 17:43 UTC

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

Neuroscience of human sexual attraction triggers (3 hypotheses)

Steven Byrnes25 Aug 2025 17:51 UTC

70 points

9 comments12 min readLW link

There Are No Primordial Definitions of Man/Woman

ymeskhout6 Jun 2024 19:30 UTC

11 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(ymeskhout.substack.com)

Epistemology of Romance, Part 1

DaystarEld29 Nov 2025 6:18 UTC

64 points

7 comments14 min readLW link

Whence the sexes?

Richard_Ngo13 Feb 2022 20:40 UTC

64 points

35 comments3 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

[NSFW] The Fuzzy Handcuffs of Liberation

lsusr24 Feb 2025 13:05 UTC

24 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Are men harder to help?

braces26 Dec 2022 21:11 UTC

36 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them

Zack_M_Davis30 Dec 2023 17:40 UTC

50 points

192 comments87 min readLW link 1 review

(unremediatedgender.space)

Links for May

Kaj_Sotala1 Jun 2024 10:20 UTC

20 points

16 comments18 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Interpersonal Entanglement

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Jan 2009 6:17 UTC

118 points

167 comments4 min readLW link

[NSFW Review] Interspecies Reviewers

lsusr1 Apr 2022 11:09 UTC

51 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Why I Transitioned: A Case Study

Fiora Starlight1 Nov 2025 22:58 UTC

341 points

82 comments10 min readLW link

Challenges to Yudkowsky’s Pronoun Reform Proposal

Zack_M_Davis13 Mar 2022 20:38 UTC

47 points

56 comments39 min readLW link 1 review

(unremediatedgender.space)

Changing Emotions

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jan 2009 0:05 UTC

53 points

57 comments7 min readLW link

I think Michael Bailey’s dismissal of my autogynephilia questions for Scott Alexander and Aella makes very little sense

tailcalled10 Jul 2023 17:39 UTC

48 points

45 comments2 min readLW link

Do Women Like Assholes?

Jacob Falkovich22 Jun 2020 2:14 UTC

30 points

10 comments17 min readLW link

Contra Musician Gender II

jefftk13 Nov 2024 3:30 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Why Are Transgender People Immune To Optical Illusions?

Scott Alexander28 Jun 2017 19:00 UTC

28 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

Book Review: What Even Is Gender?

Joey Marcellino1 Sep 2024 16:09 UTC

33 points

14 comments12 min readLW link

Many of us are hit with a baseball once a month.

Alexandros22 Dec 2010 17:56 UTC

58 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Evolution, Sex, and Gender, Not to Mention Research

NancyLebovitz14 Jan 2013 14:19 UTC

34 points

78 comments1 min readLW link

LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance

daenerys25 Nov 2012 23:33 UTC

99 points

1,261 comments7 min readLW link

Using machine learning to predict romantic compatibility: empirical results

JonahS17 Dec 2014 2:54 UTC

37 points

18 comments11 min readLW link

Link: Writing exercise closes the gender gap in university-level physics

Vladimir_Golovin27 Nov 2010 16:28 UTC

27 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

NSFW Content on LW

ozymandias8 Oct 2017 14:31 UTC

22 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

An interesting speed dating study

CronoDAS7 Jul 2009 7:09 UTC

20 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Appendix: Contra Fiora on Contra

quinoa marisa20 Jan 2026 1:53 UTC

14 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Sex, Lies, and Dexamethasone

Jacob Falkovich20 Feb 2018 19:56 UTC

15 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

Announcing Athena—Women in AI Alignment Research

Claire Short7 Nov 2023 21:46 UTC

80 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

I love boobs.

boobs3 Dec 2025 4:37 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Will value of paid sex drop right before the end of the world?

azamatvaliev2 Sep 2023 19:03 UTC

−9 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Informed Consent as the Sole Criterion for Medical Treatment

Character#273621 Nov 2025 1:39 UTC

7 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

My Time As A Goddess

Evenstar4 Jul 2023 13:14 UTC

32 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

‘oy, girls on lw, want to get together some time?’

MBlume2 Oct 2009 10:50 UTC

40 points

184 comments1 min readLW link

Gender Identity and Rationality

lucidfox1 Dec 2010 16:32 UTC

58 points

114 comments6 min readLW link

How are there 0 studies (maybe 1) on sex-concordant hormone therapy?

Util20 Jun 2026 22:36 UTC

22 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Nothing human makes it out of the gooncave

zeptabot8 Jul 2026 17:27 UTC

1 point

0 comments9 min readLW link

(zeptabot.substack.com)

How subjective is attractiveness?

JonahS13 Jan 2015 0:04 UTC

51 points

38 comments4 min readLW link

LW Women: LW Online

daenerys15 Feb 2013 1:43 UTC

46 points

596 comments6 min readLW link

Go F*** Someone

Jacob Falkovich15 Jan 2020 18:39 UTC

19 points

23 comments8 min readLW link

Mate selection for the men here

rhollerith3 Jun 2009 23:05 UTC

13 points

114 comments3 min readLW link

Gorges of gender on a terrain of traits

dkl922 Oct 2024 16:18 UTC

−7 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

[Question] Help figuring out my sexuality?

Centhart22 Dec 2021 20:28 UTC

13 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Call for Anonymous Narratives by LW Women and Question Proposals (AMA)

daenerys9 Sep 2012 8:39 UTC

30 points

374 comments3 min readLW link

Growth mindset for better sex

agentydragon28 Apr 2020 8:49 UTC

7 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

LW Women- Female privilege

daenerys5 May 2013 1:58 UTC

43 points

236 comments4 min readLW link

How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy

Douglas_Reay9 Sep 2012 4:41 UTC

31 points

776 comments2 min readLW link

My Model of Gender Identity

Iris of Rosebloom1 Apr 2023 3:03 UTC

42 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

Masculine Virtues

Jacob Falkovich30 Jan 2019 16:03 UTC

52 points

32 comments13 min readLW link

Book Review: Autoheterosexuality

tailcalled12 Jun 2023 20:11 UTC

27 points

9 comments24 min readLW link

The virtuous circle: twelve conjectures about female reproductive agency and cultural self-determination

Miles Saltiel27 Dec 2023 18:25 UTC

0 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

On the proper piloting of flesh shoots

Mordecai Weynberg11 Oct 2022 18:52 UTC

−4 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

“She Wanted It”

sarahconstantin11 Nov 2018 22:00 UTC

120 points

21 comments7 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

A Rationalist’s Account of Objectification?

lukeprog19 Mar 2011 23:10 UTC

64 points

327 comments5 min readLW link

Quantified Risks of Gay Male Sex

pianoforte61118 Aug 2014 23:55 UTC

56 points

40 comments6 min readLW link

Factions, inequality, and social justice

John_Maxwell3 Dec 2012 19:37 UTC

44 points

173 comments6 min readLW link

Dating like a Pro

Jacob Falkovich16 Mar 2018 21:09 UTC

12 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

Sex Fairy Lore

pchvykov26 Jun 2022 20:42 UTC

−25 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] The stereotype of male classical music lovers being gay

BB620 Sep 2023 13:23 UTC

13 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What determines female romantic “market value”?

anon_girl16 Jan 2023 18:45 UTC

16 points

53 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Why I’m not on the Rationalist Masterlist

Apprentice6 Jan 2014 0:16 UTC

40 points

882 comments1 min readLW link

Under-acknowledged Value Differences

Wei Dai12 Sep 2012 22:02 UTC

78 points

68 comments1 min readLW link

LW Women Submissions: On Misogyny

daenerys10 Apr 2013 19:54 UTC

44 points

469 comments8 min readLW link

Being saner about gender and rationality

Roko20 Jul 2009 7:17 UTC

17 points

98 comments2 min readLW link

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