Sex

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Sex was the biological process by which two (or, rarely, more) individuals procreated their species through what was frequently regarded culturally as "intimate contact". Since sex was generally associated with positive emotional and physical responses — except when one or more parties didn't agree to it, as during rape —sex could also be practised for recreational, and not strictly procreational, ends. Indeed, sex could be practised between two or more individuals of the same gender, which rarely had any procreative implications at all. Precise definition on what specific actions constituted sex varied by species.

Sex was also a synonym for gender.

Species

Time Lords

How Time Lords related sexually was unclear.

By most accounts, Time Lords were implied capable of sexual procreation. The Master, for instance, claimed to have a father. (DW: The End of Time) Likewise, Susan said she was the grand-daughter of the Doctor (DW: An Unearthly Child, et al) and she had at least one child — whom she identified as the Doctor's great-grandson —by the human David Campbell. (BFA: An Earthly Child, et al) The Ninth Doctor once seemed distinctly perturbed when Rose Tyler implied he didn't "dance" — a metaphor for sex that had arisen between the two. (DW: The Doctor Dances) The Tenth Doctor also described the possibility of genetically collateral relationships when he told Martha Jones he didn't have a brother "any more". (DW: Smith and Jones) He also said that — long before his daughter was created asexually (DW: The Doctor's Daughter) — he had been a father. (DW: Fear Her) Indeed the presence of obvious sexual attraction between the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler suggested that natural, biological reproduction — or at the very least recreational sex — was possible.

900 years old, me. I've been around a bit. I think you can assume at some point I've 'danced'.Ninth Doctor [The Doctor Dances [src]]

However, another account suggested that sex had ceased to have a reproductive function on Gallifrey long before the Doctor's time. According to this school of thought, "Pythia's Curse" had made Gallifreyans effectively sterile. Reproduction was carried out through the carefully controlled use of Looms, which produced new Time Lords as fully-formed adults. No direct genetic relationships were therefore possible. Time Lords arising from the same House — for each House had only one Loom —were considered "cousins". (NA: Lungbarrow)

The Doctor

Though rare, there were occasional hints that the Doctor did indeed have sex.

Specific incidents

Other contexts


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