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The male sexual organ of an adult banana slug is quite large in proportion to its size, as well as compared to the female organ. It is possible for banana slugs, while mating, to become stuck together. If a substantial amount of wiggling fails to separate them, the male organ will be bitten off (using the slug's radula), see apophallation. If a ...
Intersex individuals in a number of gonochoric species, who express both female and male phenotypic characters to some degree, [189] are known to exist at very low prevalences. Although "hermaphrodite" and "intersex" have been used synonymously in humans, [ 190 ] [ pages needed ] a hermaphrodite is specifically an individual capable of ...
A life-size sculpture of Hermaphroditus from Pergamon is one of the largest found, standing 186.5 centimetres (73.4 in) tall at the İstanbul Archaeology Museums. [ 29 ] A statue by John Henry Foley was shown at the 1851 Great Exhibition and later donated to the Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon , where it now stands.
The sex of the individual is unknown. They may be male or may be female, but their true identity remains in doubt. They are their own sex, a category unto themselves completely separate from the male and female sexes. They are both male and female, that is, they exist simultaneously as a member of both sexes. They are considered male.
The word androgyne can refer to a person who does not fit neatly into one of the typical masculine or feminine gender roles of their society, or to a person whose gender is a mixture of male and female, not necessarily half-and-half. Many androgynous individuals identify as being mentally or emotionally both masculine and feminine.
This list of related male and female reproductive organs shows how the male and female reproductive organs and the development of the reproductive system are related, sharing a common developmental path. This makes them biological homologues. These organs differentiate into the respective sex organs in males and females.
Hermaphrodite (botany), a flowering plant that has both male and female structures, that is, it combines both sexes in one structure; Bovine hermaphrodite, an infertile cow with masculinized behavior and non-functioning ovaries; Sequential hermaphrodite, an individual that changes its sex at some point in its life
Intersex is a general term for an organism that has sex characteristics that are between male and female. [1] It typically applies to a minority of members of gonochoric animal species such as mammals (as opposed to hermaphroditic species in which the majority of members can have both male and female sex characteristics). [2]