Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jorgensen acknowledged in his articles that his organs had been normal in the first place. But many readers jumped to the conclusion that his was one of the not uncommon cases of pseudohermaphroditism (organs of one sex so malformed or concealed as to be mistaken for those of the other), or one of the rare cases of true hermaphroditism (possessing the gonads of both sexes). In either instance, the operations would have left Jorgensen a girl, or a reasonable facsimile thereof...
...transvestites be cured? In relatively mild cases of transvestitism, involving patients who actually want to be normal, U.S. doctors agree that psychiatric treatment, sometimes accompanied by hormones of the patient's own sex. often effect real cures. But in some cases of transvestitism, as in severe cases of homosexuality, cures are exceptional at best. Jorgensen's Danish psychiatrist, Dr. Georg Stuerup, insists that "not one of the major psychotherapists has ever published a satisfactory example of a real, severe case of homosexuality or transvestitism that had been treated successfully...
...mistake to remove the sex glands? It is illegal in every state in the U.S., except in cases of physical disease, though some states have experimented with voluntary emasculation for sex of fenders as an alternative to a prison sentence...
...Stuerup, who is in charge of administering his country's program of voluntary emasculation, feels Denmark is effectively treating sex criminals instead of punishing them, points to some statistics: in Denmark only 3.7% of voluntarily castrated sex criminals repeat their crimes as compared to 43% of the uncastrated. He considers the U.S. attitude a childish and hypocritical taboo. "In America," he says, "a surgeon can operate on any organ in the body, including the brain. But he may not operate on the testes. That is a hypocrisy which the mature society of Denmark refuses to accept." How will...
...fourth, Chicago fifth, the Red Sex sixth, will win only new fans--even those by default. Detroit and the Browns, both Western teams, will fight it out for the cellar...