hermaphrodism
Americannoun
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To our shame, even nonbelievers such as Gore Vidal and Michel Foucault understood this.Foucault once said, “We are creating a hermaphrodism — a false species.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
In connection with hermaphrodism it has been shown that the males who have been supposed to be so malformed were really, in most instances, but cases of hypospadias.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles
In man and other vertebrates, hermaphrodism is always abnormal.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
Is there not a seeming reference to this thought of divine hermaphrodism in the well-known passage of Genesis?
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.
Although hermaphrodism on a large scale, as an existing condition, was a matter of serious belief at the end of the eighteenth century, it has occupied no little attention in this.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles
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