Essays Tagged: "Intersex"

Hermaphrodites Do Exist

miliar with the myth and not reality. There may be as many as 4% of births affected by some form of intersex condition. From the obvious female and male, the term intersex (by the medical commu ... hermaphrodites? Majority of them, live with silence, shame, and fear learned as children and teen. Intersexed people have a very hard time with personal issues, which surround being born different. T ...

(1 pages) 3469 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Biological Sex and Gender

ypic, and gonadal processes alter the routine outcomes of sexual differentiation. When this occurs, intersexed individuals where the outcome, expressing contrasting chromosomal and phenotypic sexes. F ... y develop (Koopman 1995). These phenomenons regularly occur in society and its results are known as intersex individuals. In fact, approximately one in every 1000 births results in an intersex baby (F ...

(15 pages) 58 0 0.0 Feb/2010

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality