Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pseudo" because, however strangely mixed the genitals may appear, the reproductive glands of only one sex are present. True hermaphrodites, with both ovarian and testicular tissue, are extremely rare; only about 30 authenticated cases appear in medical literature...
...office was: "What am I, a man or a woman?" "Joan" (the real name was withheld) was a pseudohermaphrodite* whose external genitals resembled both male and female organs. Something had gone wrong (doctors are not sure just how) during fetal development when the time came for the undifferentiated sex organs to become either completely male or completely female. The condition occurs in about one in 1,000 births; accurate figures are hard to come by because of family reticence...
Maraventano freed the obscured clitoris-like penis, closed up the vagina-like introitus, moved the testicle into a scrotal sac formed from the labia majora. Then he made a canal in the freed penis. After the surgery was completed, a series of treatments with testosterone, the male sex hormone, followed...
...operation was successful. There is every reason to believe that "John" (as the doctors called him after the operation) can have normal sex relations. Later tests on the fertility of the sperm will show whether it is possible for him to become a father...
...What does the Church think of sex...