Last week, Mexico's Secretariat of Health issued a warning that use of the contraceptive pill during pregnancy could raise the risk of "genital ambiguity," also known as hermaphrodism, in newborns. From Wordnik.com. [LifeSiteNews.com Headlines] Reference
What is hermaphrodism and is it something that should be ‘treated’?. From Wordnik.com. [Growing pains » Japundit Blog] Reference
As it happens, there are no prenatal tests available for hermaphrodism, so who knows. From Wordnik.com. [Baby Steps] Reference
Jamieson will account for the hermaphrodism: "The moon, it has been said, was viewed as of the masculine gender in respect of the earth, whose husband he was supposed to be; but as a female in relation to the sun, as being his spouse.". From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
The Kedeschim, with painted eyelids, who symbolised the hermaphrodism of the Divinity, received applause among these women, and, being perfumed and dressed like them, they resembled them in spite of their flat breasts and narrower hips. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
In the main, yes ... but even in nature there's quite a bit of fuzziness, such as pseudohermaphrodism .... (nature provides plenty of examples of true hermaphrodism too; marine life seems to actually almost prefer such an approach, even across phyla). From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
Debierre, however, mentions some cases of true hermaphrodism. From Wordnik.com. [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference
In other words, humanity begins its existence in a state of hermaphrodism. From Wordnik.com. [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference
Darwinian reason for human hermaphrodites to exist, since hermaphrodism does not provide any reproductive or survival benefits. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
I mean ... hermaphrodism seems to be a lot smarter and likely to result in successful reproduction, since you don't need anybody else to do it. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference
The hermaphrodism of most plants, the difficulty in the way of insuring the absence of their own or the proper working of other pollen, are obstacles of no less magnitude in applying the test to them. From Wordnik.com. [Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02] Reference
The hermaphrodism of most plants, the difficulty in the way of insuring the absence of their own, or the proper working of other pollen, are obstacles of no less magnitude in applying the test to them. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
The hermaphrodism of most plants, the difficulty in the way of ensuring the absence of their own, or the proper working of other pollen, are obstacles of no less magnitude in applying the test to them. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews] Reference
"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 Wordnik.com. [Là-bas] Reference
As strange as it may seem, many intelligent men were loth to part with their belief in the existence of these double-sexed individuals; the logic used by many of these insisters of hermaphrodism, although now very ridiculous, was no doubt sensible logic one hundred and fifty years ago. From Wordnik.com. [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference
Is it a simple matter of that requiring too much space on the body to be practical in a complex animal, or is hermaphrodism something else, where an individual can only possess one set of organs at a time and needs to spend a while reconfiguring their own biology, rendering the 'fertilise your own eggs' idea impossible?. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
hermaphrodism is a common attribute in the vegetable kingdom, where fixed habitation or position makes such a condition necessary; it is also common to many of our lower forms of animal life, and even in the human foetus the presence of the Wolfian bodies and the canal of Müller in the same individual attest a primitive case or condition of hermaphrodism. From Wordnik.com. [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference
As it happens, there are no prenatal tests available for hermaphrodism, so who knows.). From Wordnik.com. [Baby Steps | Her Bad Mother] Reference
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