The 4-Sex Conference is the most prestigious and the best attended (not to mention the most radical) academic exchange in the field of sexuality studies in Taiwan.

Papers presented at previous 4-sex conferences include:

1996 The First International Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, (Trans)Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies (June 29-30, 1996)

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• Sexology and its Sexual Logic (Daiwie Fu)
• Sexual Revolution: A Marxist Perspective (Josephine Ho)
• Girdles, Sex and Sexuality: The Body-Politico Aesthetics of Taiwan's Lesbians (Antonia Chao)
• Discourse and Agency in Lesbian and Gay Movement in Taiwan (Jia-Chen Ni)
  
• The Cultural Capital of the Erotic and the Discipline of the Body: Teenage Female Sexuality in Vocational Schools (Ming-Juen Gu)
  
• Stirring Subjects in the Anti-Sexual Harassment Movement (Ping Wang)
  
• Grotesque Others: From the Mask of Medusa to Freud, Irigaray and Cixous (Ze-Chong Su)
  
• Taboo and Transgression: Bataille's Concept of the Erotic (Shou-Chen Lai)
  
• The Conspiracy of Sexual Deviance: Queering a Sociological Paradigm (Yuan-Hong Chu)
  
• Idiosyncrasy: Sexual Diversity, Freud, and Social Constructionism (Yin-Bin Ning)
  
• Discourse Analysis of the News Media in the Taiwan University Adult Film Incident (Tsan-Yin Lo)
  
• Sex Education Discourse in Hong Kong (Hua-Shan Zhou)
  
• Panel Discussion: The Politics of Homosexual Movement in Taiwan
  
• Panel Discussion: Towards a Pluralistic Education of Sexuality

1997 The Second International Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, (Trans)Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies (May 31-June 1, 1997)

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• Post-Colonial Reflections on Taiwan's Homosexual Movement and Culture: On the Issue of "Coming Out"nbsp; (Raymond Wei-Cheng Chu)
• Post-Colonial Homosexuality (Hua-San Zhou)
  
• To Have or Not to Have a Queer Phallus?: Queering Freudian Oedipal Trajectory (Zhong-Huei Huang)
  
• From Freud's Case Study to Cixous's Painting: A Few Things about Dora (Ze-Zhong Su)
  
• The Life Stories of Twelve Working Girls (Huei-Wen Gee)
  
• Towards A Multi-Cultural Perspective in Sexuality/Gender Education: Education as Sexuality Education, and Sexuality Education as Education (Yin-Bin Ning and Josephine Ho)
  
• Invisible Power: An Epistemological Analysis of the Sexual Discourse on Non-Procreative and Non-Kinship Norms (Antonia Chao)
  
• An Overview/Critique of Several Views on the History of Same-Sex Desire in Ancient China (Rei-Yuan Wu)
  
• Virtual Space and the Flow of Sexual Discourse (Linda Yang)
  
• Identity Politics Ends/and Its Own Lack: From the Interaction within Taiwanese Cyberspace to the Dynamics/Visibility of Queer Politics/Discourse (Lucifer Hung)
  
• From Body/Desire to Identification/Identity: Lesbian Survival in Campus Space (Qiao-|Ting Zhang)
  
• Searching Everywhere For Miss Right: Lin Qin XiaŠö Same-Sex Performance (Robert Chen and Su-Yi Lin)
  
• The Psychology of Sex of Su Man Su (Zhuo-Wen Zeng)
  
• Sexuality and Power: The interaction of sexuality and gender in Sh Shu-qin's HongKong Trilogy (Sh-Xin Kuo)
  
• Female Teachers and Education Reform (Ru-Huei Zhang)
  
• Ten Years After: Review of Research on Sexuality and Youth in Hong Kong, 1987-1997 (Tony Wong and Wen-Zhao Lee)
  
• Are you a Gay, Kuer or Tonzhi?: Notes on the Politics of Hybrid Sexual Identity (Chong Kee Tang)
  
• "You're Not Natural?": From (Un)Natural Mother to Queer Mother (Yi-Fan Zhang)
  
• Medicine for Women: The Asymmetrical Relation Between Cock and Bottom (Zhi-Wei Hsieh)
• Sexuality and Desire in Field Studies (Yuan-Hong Chu)

1998 The Third International Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, (Trans)Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies (April 24-26, 1998)

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• From Mothering the World to Surrogate Mothering: Interrogating Patriarchal Views of the Political Economy of Taiwan's Post-WWII Medical System (Du-Jian Tsai)
• When Obstetrics Meets "Superstitious" Women: Knowledge, Gender and Power in Taiwan's High Rate of Caesarean Sections (Jia-Ling Wu)
  
• Doctor-Patient Relationships in Literature: A Case of Nineteenth Century Europe (Shi-Xing Guo)
  
• Interpellating Homosexual Subjectivity: Stigma and Signification of the Taiwanese Homosexual Culture (Hans Tao-Ming Huang)
  
• Case Studies of the Development of Sexual Preference among Taiwanese Lesbians (Ya-Ching Hong)
  
• Preliminary Notes Toward a Literary History of Incest (Zhuo-Wen Zeng)
  
• Queering Chinese America: On Norman Wong's Cultural Revolution (David Gee)
  
• An Investigation of Environmental Factors in Taipei's Legal Prostitution (Yi-Ping Liau)
  
• The Impact of Self-Identification of Taipei's Legal Prostitutes on their Life and Work (Xiau-Wen Tang)
  
• Regime in Exile and Bodies in Exile: Subjectivity, Things, Gender/Sexuality in the Public Realm of the 1950s (Antonia Chao)
  
• The Enlightenment of Hong Kong Prostitutes' Rights Movement (Yue-Lian Yian)
  
• "Doing" and "Selling": Sex as a Survival Strategy in Trading and Exchange (Shue-Ling Lee)
  
• Why Sex is a Legitimate Commodity and Should Be So: Some Arguments on Sex Work (Yin-Bin Ning)
  
• Digital Landscape: Resistance, Identity and Reconstruction of Women on the Internet (Chang-Ling Yang)
  
• Going to Work in the "Company": An Investigation of Taipei's New Park as a Site for Male Homosexual Performance (Zheng-Zhe Lai)
  
• The Learning of Gender Roles: The Case of Romance Reading Among Junior High School Girls (Ru-Huey Zhang & Jing-Yue Zeng)
  
• Understandable Cause, Forgivable Mistake?: A Study of Tolerance of Date Rape Among Taiwanese Youths (Tsan-Ying Luo)
  
• Panel Discussion: Sexuality Education and Medical Sciences

1999 The Fourth International Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies (May 1-2, 1999)

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• Physical and Psychological Adjustment of Post-Surgery Transsexuals (Shu-Ting Hsu, Hnai-Ying Ke, Rong-Huang Fang, & Rong-Guang Wen)
  
• The Gender Politics of Transvestite Shows on Taiwanese TV (Yu-Ling Lin)
  
• Theoretical Investigations into Age Liberation: Toward the (Sexual) Liberation of Children and Teenagers (Yin-Bin Ning)
  
• She Made a Spectacle Out of Herself: Revisiting the Grotesque and Aesthetic Judgment (Yuan-Hong Zhu)
  
• Representations of Gender Roles in Disney New Wave Animation Films (Huei-Hua Wang)
  
• The Fish or the Bearpaw: The Dilemma of Feminist Anti-Sexual-Violence Discourses (Tsan-Ying Lo)
  
• Gendered Language in Cross-Dressing (Hse-Hsing Kuo)
  
• A Study of Aids-Related Issues in Taiwan, 1986-1997 (Nai-Ying Ke, Pei-Pei Chen, & Ruei-Ling Zhang)
  
• It's Too Political to Call it Pornography: A Preliminary Investigation of the Archaeology of Pornography (Shou-Zheng Lai)
  
• Streetwalking in Hong Kong: Gender and Community and Organization (Jie-Hsin Yian)
  
• Anna O.: The Ghost and the Grotesque of Psychoanalysis (Tze-Zhong Su)
  
• Politics and Ethics: On the Reception of Kristeva Motherhood Theory by British and American Academic Feminists (Guei-Zhi Wu)
  
• A Weird Mirror: Reading Chinese Classical Men-Men Romance between the Emperor and His Subjects Through Marlow's Edward II (Wei-Cheng Zhu)
  
• Naked Letter: Peeking At an 18th-Century Homosexual Novel (Kai-Ling Liu)
  
• We are Family?: On the Familial Mechanism-Identity Politics and the Possibility of Resistance in The Bastard Son and The Contrary Daughter (Yao-Min Chen)
• Sexuality, Culture, and Political Economy: The Homosexual Experience of Minnan Gays (Scott Simon)
  
• The Reproduction of the Sexual Hierarchy: An Ethnography of Gay Saunas in Hong Kong (Jing-Xiang Jian)
  
• On the Protection of Homosexuals Offered by the European Human Right Covenant (Hong-Cheng Zhang)
  
• Gays in the Press: A Study of Fifteen Years of Reports on Gay-Related Issues in Taiwanese Press (Antonia Chao)
  
• Defining Bisexuality (Zuo-Ming Hsu)

2000 The Fifth International Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies (April 22-23, 2000)

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• The Shadows and Penumbrae of Late Qing Discourse on "Gender Equality" (Ren-Peng Liu)
  
• Nation, Sexuality and The Teaching of Chinese to Foreigners: A Gender Analysis of the Historical Images of Female Chinese Teachers (Huei-Min Lee)
  
• Reflections on Feminist Geography and Middle-School Geography Education in Taiwan (Wen-Yu Wu)
  
• Aids, The Sexual/Moral Branding: A View in Public Health (Jia-Hua Hsiao)
  
• Homosexual Christians and Internet Communication (Qian Yiou)
  
• Real Identities in Cyber Contexts: The Case of IRC in Taiwan (Yao-Min Chen)
  
• Image Consumption Culture and the Gendered Laws of Fetishism (Qing-Ying Wang)
  
• Fetishism: A Symbol of Decadence? (Zuo-Ming Hsu)
• Sexual/Harassment and Modernity (Yin-Bin Ning)
  
• From 'Molly's Song' in Ulysses to the Personal Nude Albums of Female Stars: A Psychoanalytical View on Sexual Autonomy and the Gaze of the Father (Zong-Huei Huang)
  
• Dialectical Relations between The Gay Movement and Theories of Social Movement (Yu-Lin Lai)
  
• Stigmatized Representations and Gender Transgression/Pleasure: A Study of New York Queer Performances (Ai-Zhu Zhang)
  
• A Study of Male Public Relations Officer in Night Clubs (Tsui-Song Wu)
  
• Sexuality, Power and the Exotic Dancers: A Field Observation (Josephine Ho)
  
• Panel Discussion: Sex and the Internet (Man-Lun Ng, Jing-Yi Liu, Seba, Sherman Chang, Yin-Bin Ning)

2001 The Sixth International Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies (Sept 15-16, 2001)

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• The Sex Revolution in Contemporary China (Pan, Sui-Ming)
  
• Marriage Laws and Extra-Marital Affairs (Li, Yin-He)
  
• Gender/Sexuality Experiences: Hong Kong Women's Experience with Underwears (Gong, Shuk-Mei)
  
• Chinese Homosexuals (Zhang, Bei-Chuan)
  
• Homosexuals or TongZhi: The Raging Labeling War (Hsu, Zuo-Ming)
  
• Being Outed and Outing, Anxiety and Pride: A Lesbian Outing Story (Chen,Yu-Rong)
  
• Hong Kong Sex Work and Their Resistance against Politicians (Yien, Yue-Lian)
• Body Politics of Hong Kong Sex Workers (Travis Kong & Lee, Wai-Yi)
• Sex Work and Modernity (Ning, Yin-Bin)
• Sexual Subjectivity: From Legal Subject, Body Subject to Desire Subject (Gong, Zhuo-Juen)
• Hong Kong's "Bill on the Prevention of Child Pornography" and Its Problems (Ng, Ming-Lan)
• The Em[bodi]ment of Identity: Constructing Transgender (Josephine Ho)