B

B. chromosomes; C. the female ovary and fallopian tubes: and e. ovum or egg at left and sperm cell at right.

D

KINDS

OF SEX

by Harry Benjamin, M.D.

Sdiffe

EX means different things to different people. It means one thing to a Kinsey, another thing to Brigitte Bardot and still another to the courtesan. The average citizen may not identify himself with any one of them, but he (or she) has his own concept of what sex means. The biolo- gist, the medical man, the psy- chologist, the jurist, the sociologist and the priest are all apt to view and study sex from different angles and in a different light.

To the less educated, a person is either male or female, Adam or Eve. With more learning comes more doubt. The better educated knows that every Adam contains elements of Eve and vice versa.

He has heard of the existence of intersexes, of pseudo-hermaphro- dites and true hermaphrodites in whom the physical sex is in doubt. He also knows of homosexuals, bisexuals and transvestites with a doubtful manifestation of sex. He is aware that sex may serve for

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