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 Xia 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

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

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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

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

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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