1. Hermaphrodites
... of Western culture. Holmes" main argument is that hermaphrodites should not be considered as "abnormal beings". "bodies [that] are neither male nor female make them clearly intersexed rather than confused or incomprehensible." However, throughout the article, (s)he repetitively shows us that this is exactly how society perceives ... very difficult sexually to understand the desires of a hermaphrodite. So physicians then developed a goal: to only view these desires from a male or female perspective. So they came up with a way of controlling this "deformity", which was to surgically contr...
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