Word: sexes
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Since the entire book thus revolves around Selma, it is primarily of interest as a character study of a girl who hovers at the edge of a neurotic revulsion against the role of her sex. Raised in a commonplace, puritanical Iowa town, Selma thought one of her schoolmates was going to have a baby because a boy kissed her. In college she fell in love with an evangelist, became deeply religious, watched the unfolding of an ugly campus "romance" when an effeminate music teacher married to stop the gossip that was threatening his job. At home she saw a still...
When a child's sex is ambiguous at birth, it is almost always thought to be a female, sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly. A wrong guess is usually the basis of "sex changes" which make headlines. At puberty the increased production of male hormones from the glands causes the alarming "change." Then the girl changes clothes and assumes the sex which, glandularly speaking, he actually had from the beginning. It sometimes happens, however, that a normal girl suddenly begins to acquire virile features. Medical men are convinced that this is due to tumorous growths which take root on the normal...
...healthy woman can wear sheer stockings and low-necked dresses in winter without catching cold because warm blood is sent coursing through her skin by a sex hormone called theelin. Principal function of theelin (Greek theelis, female) is to make a woman womanly. It is elaborated by the ovaries.* The theelin molecule contains 18 atoms of carbon, 22 of hydrogen, two of oxygen...
...Other female sex hormones include estrin from the ovaries; prolactin from the pituitary; progostin from the corpus luteum...
...momentum. Major problem of the women's Olympics is determining whether or not the competitors are women. Gossip about Fulton, Mo.'s Olympic track star Helen Stephens, last week failed to produce a repetition of the embarrassment that occurred at Amsterdam in 1928 when debate about the sex of a Japanese broad jumper named Hitmoni did not end until she was ungraciously described in an official statement as "It." In Berlin famed Ted Meredith, onetime (1912) Olympic champion runner, now coaching Czechoslovakian girl athletes, related the sad case of his ablest sprinter, who qualified for the Olympics...