Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction to Kinsey's gall-wasp approach to sex has been mixed, to say the least. His statistic-crammed, 804-page book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948), was published by a medical publishing house (W. B. Saunders Co.) and cost $6.50, but it shot up on the bestseller list with the aid of free publicity and loud denunciations. The weightiest denunciations came from religious and moral leaders, who pointed out that Kinsey's examination of men's sex life altogether denied the existence of any moral factor whatever in sexual relations...
...either sex, undetected adrenal tumors usually kill the victim. The best remedy is surgery to remove the tumor. This restores the normal balance for the patient's sex. For overactive adrenals with no tumor, small doses of cortisone now do the trick...
Hermaphroditism. After about five weeks of life in the womb, the human fetus develops a sex gland (gonad) which at first cannot be identified as male or female. Within a week or two, in normal growth, it becomes recognizable as either the female kind that will develop into ovaries, or the male kind that will become testicles. Sometimes, nature gets its wires crossed and the luckless infant develops one ovary and one testicle, or an intermediate type of "ovotestis." and some of the genital organs of both sexes. This is true hermaphroditism,* though Pediatrician Lawson Wilkins of Johns Hopkins...
...rare occasions when such cases come to the operating table, their doctors must decide whether there is a physical leaning toward one sex or the other. They must also consider whether the patient has been reared as a boy or a girl. Then the surgeons leave as nearly perfect a male or female as they can. Less extreme cases, which show only a few features of the opposite sex, are proportionately easier to treat...
Pseudohermaphroditism. This clumsy term covers a wide variety of cases. Pediatrician Wilkins argues that one type, at least, should be classed as intersexuality. This covers cases in which the embryonic gonad definitely takes the form of one sex, but other sex organs resemble those of the opposite sex because of a mix-up in the genes and chromosomes. Surgery to correct the "accessory organs" is the only answer...