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Hermaphroditism
Title: Hermaphroditism
Category: Literature / English
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Hermaphroditism
Hermaphroditism
Hermaphroditism, in biology, is the union of the two sexes in the same individual,or the combination of some of their characteristics or organs in one individual.1 A
hermaphrodite individual is sexually unfinished or partly male and partly female. Due to the similarities between male and female sex organs, it may be difficult to tell whether a
human hermaphrodite is a female with overdeveloped clitoris or a male with underdeveloped penis, cleft scrotum, and …showed first 75 words of 289 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 289 total…prayed that they would never be separated. The gods granted her prayer that they never be separated.
Their two bodies were joined together, and they no longer were boy or girl but share of both sexes.4
1. Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia. “Hermaphroditism”. Hermaphroditism [Online],
http://www.funkandwagnalls.com/encyclopedia/low/articles/h/h011000803f.html (1998).
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Mark Morford, “The Homeric Hymn to Hermes”. Classical Mythology Online [Online],
http://longman.awl.com/mythology/chaptertopics/summary_10.asp (1995)
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