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
"Admit, at any rate, that this cerebral hermaphrodism, self-fecundation, is a distinguished vice at least—being the privilege of the artist—a vice reserved for the elect, inaccessible to the mob."
From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene
Such cases are not examples of hermaphrodism, but of incomplete embryological differentiation.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
Debierre, however, mentions some cases of true hermaphrodism.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles
In other words, humanity begins its existence in a state of hermaphrodism.
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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