Sex Hormones, Gonadotropins, and Sex Hormone-binding Globulin in Infants Fed Breast Milk, Cow Milk Formula, or Soy Formula by Xin Fang, Lei Wang, Chunhua Wu, Huijing Shi, Zhijun Zhou, Scott Montgomery, Yang Cao

“…Estradiol, estrone, testosterone, luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels were measured in the three matrices. …”
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Male sex workers who sell sex to men also engage in anal intercourse with women: evidence from Mombasa, Kenya. by Priya Mannava, Scott Geibel, Nzioki King'ola, Marleen Temmerman, Stanley Luchters

“…To investigate self-report of heterosexual anal intercourse among male sex workers who sell sex to men, and to identify the socio-demographic characteristics associated with practice of the behavior.Two cross-sectional surveys of male sex workers who sell sex to men in Mombasa, Kenya.Male sex workers selling sex to men were invited to participate in surveys undertaken in 2006 and 2008. …”
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Women Selling Sex in Russia: Analyzing Women’s Appraisal of Exploitation and Mistreatment Using Cognitive Dissonance and Cultural Sex Script Frameworks by Varvara Gulina, Lianne A. Urada, Veronika Odinokova, Maia Rusakova

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Men Who Have Sex With Men and Recruit Bareback Sex Partners on the Internet: Implications for STI and HIV Prevention and Client Education by Christopher W. Blackwell PhD, ARNP-C

“…Men who have sex with men (MSM) frequently use Internet-based Web sites to recruit sex partners. …”
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Correction: Are genital examinations necessary for STI screening for female sex workers? An audit of decriminalized and regulated sex workers in Melbourne, Australia. by PLOS ONE Staff

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Evidence for a male‐biased sex ratio in the offspring of a large herbivore: The role of environmental conditions in the sex ratio variation by Robert Hagen, Sylvia Ortmann, Andreas Elliger, Janosch Arnold

“…The null hypothesis that the sex ratio of roe deer (prenatal sex ratio and sex ratio at birth) approaches parity was rejected. …”
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The Road to Effective Remedies: Pragmatic reasons for treating cases of “sex trafficking” in the Australian sex industry as a form of “labour trafficking” by Frances Simmons, Fiona David

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Flower bud proteome reveals modulation of sex-biased proteins potentially associated with sex expression and modification in dioecious Coccinia grandis by Ravi Suresh Devani, Tejas Chirmade, Sangram Sinha, Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Bhushan B. Dholakia, Anjan Kumar Banerjee, Jayeeta Banerjee

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The Loss of Boystown and Transition to Online Sex Work: Strategies and Barriers to Increase Safety Among Men Sex Workers and Clients of Men by Elena Argento MPH, Matthew Taylor, Jody Jollimore MPP, Chrissy Taylor BA, James Jennex, Andrea Krusi PhD, Kate Shannon PhD

“…Men sex workers in Vancouver have largely transitioned from street to online solicitation coinciding with losing “Boystown,” the main outdoor sex work stroll for men. …”
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Sex and Pubertal Differences in the Type 1 Interferon Pathway Associate With Both X Chromosome Number and Serum Sex Hormone Concentration by Kate Webb, Hannah Peckham, Anna Radziszewska, Madhvi Menon, Paola Oliveri, Fraser Simpson, Claire T. Deakin, Claire T. Deakin, Claire T. Deakin, Sophie Lee, Coziana Ciurtin, Gary Butler, Gary Butler, Lucy R. Wedderburn, Lucy R. Wedderburn, Lucy R. Wedderburn, Yiannis Ioannou

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Sexual seroadaptation: lessons for prevention and sex research from a cohort of HIV-positive men who have sex with men. by J Jeff McConnell, Larry Bragg, Stephen Shiboski, Robert M Grant

“…However, such analyses can be confounded by "seroadaptation"--the restriction of unprotected anal intercourse (UAI), especially unprotected insertive UAI, to seroconcordant partnerships.We utilized sexual network methodology and repeated-measures statistics to test the hypothesis that seroadaptive strategies reduce the risk of HIV transmission despite numerous partnerships and frequent UAI.In a prospective cohort study of HIV superinfection including 168 HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM), we found extensive seroadaptation. …”
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Differential proteomics between unhatched male and female egg yolks reveal the molecular mechanisms of sex-allocation and sex-determination in chicken by Xiaole Xiang, Zhuosi Yu, Yongle Liu, Yiqun Huang, Jingjing Wang, Lei Chen, Meihu Ma

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Sex Differences in Anxiety: An Investigation of the Moderating Role of Sex in Performance Monitoring and Attentional Bias to Threat in High Trait Anxious Individuals by Natalie Strand, Lin Fang, Joshua M. Carlson

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Sex difference in liver diseases: How preclinical models help to dissect the sex-related mechanisms sustaining NAFLD and hepatocellular carcinoma by Alfredo Smiriglia, Nicla Lorito, Marina Serra, Andrea Perra, Andrea Morandi, Marta Anna Kowalik

“…This is a critical aspect that would help to tailor personalized therapies based on sex.…”
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Comparing Walker's (2008) skull trait sex estimation standard to proteomic sex estimation for a group of South Asian individuals by Laura M. Rogers, Siân E. Halcrow, Torsten Kleffmann, Charlotte L. King

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Transactional sex risk across a typology of rural and urban female sex workers in Indonesia: a mixed methods study. by Dewi Ismajani Puradiredja, Ernestina Coast

“…Context-specific typologies of female sex workers (FSWs) are essential for the design of HIV intervention programming. …”
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The Impact of Drug and Alcohol Consumption and Socio-demographic Variables on the Age of First Selling Sex among Iranian Female Sex Workers by Mahboobeh Mousavi-Ramezanzade, Yunes Jahani, Moghaddameh Mirzaee, Hamid Sharifi

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LAMP‐based molecular sexing in a gonochoric marine bivalve (Macoma balthica rubra) with divergent sex‐specific mitochondrial genomes by Sabrina Le Cam, Julie Brémaud, Tamás Malkócs, Eugénie Kreckelbergh, Vanessa Becquet, Emmanuel Dubillot, Pascale Garcia, Sophie Breton, Eric Pante

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Stigma and healthcare access among men who have sex with men and transgender women who have sex with men in Senegal by Kate E Dibble, Stefan D Baral, Matthew R Beymer, Shauna Stahlman, Carrie E Lyons, Oluwasolape Olawore, Cheikh Ndour, Gnilane Turpin Nunez, Coumba Toure-Kane, Nafissatou Leye Diouf, Daouda Diouf, Fatou Maria Drame, Souleymane Mboup, Sarah M Murray

“…Objectives: Cisgender gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender women experience HIV incidence disparities in Senegal. …”
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The influence of microsatellite polymorphisms in sex steroid receptor genes ESR1, ESR2 and AR on sex differences in brain structure by Geoffrey Chern-Yee Tan, MBBS-PhD, MRCPsych (UK), Carlton Chu, Yu Teng Lee, Clarence Chih King Tan, John Ashburner, Nicholas W. Wood, Richard SJ. Frackowiak

“…The androgen receptor (AR), oestrogen receptor alpha (ESR1) and oestrogen receptor beta (ESR2) play essential roles in mediating the effect of sex hormones on sex differences in the brain. Using Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and gene sizing in two independent samples (discovery n ​= ​173, replication ​= ​61), we determine the common and unique influences on brain sex differences in grey (GM) and white matter (WM) volume between repeat lengths (n) of microsatellite polymorphisms AR(CAG)n, ESR1(TA)n and ESR2(CA)n. …”
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