general info for anyone who cares

chaosblitz56 July 9, 2021 4:00 am

I noticed a lot of people tagging "hermaphrodite" in the tags, and I just wanted to let people know that, technically speaking, having female & male parts is called being intersex. it is a thing that happens in real life (although it hardly involves magic drugs and the parts are generally a lot less... cleanly separated then they are here) and the term "hermaphrodite" is actually very insulting. Yes I know this is literally just hot, dumb porn but hey, free info.

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    Aummie July 9, 2021 4:26 am

    Bro this is from oxford dictionary:
    her·maph·ro·dite
    a person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition.
    How is this insulting? It's just scientific term

    imntru July 9, 2021 4:45 am
    Bro this is from oxford dictionary:her·maph·ro·ditea person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natur... Aummie

    "On the Word Hermaphrodite
    The word "hermaphrodite" is a stigmatizing and misleading word.
    There is growing momentum to eliminate the word "hermaphrodite"
    from medical literature and to use the word "intersex" in its
    place. While some intersex people do reclaim the word "hermaphrodite"
    with pride to reference themselves (like words such as "dyke"
    and "queer" have been reclaimed by LGBT people), it should be
    generally avoided except under specific circumstances.

    Victorian doctors believed that the gonads were the seat of "true
    sex," and thus created a system of nomenclature -- in the absence of
    any knowledge of genetics, endocrinology, or embryology -- which categorized
    people as "male pseudohermaphrodite," "female pseudohermaphrodite,"
    or "true hermaphrodite." It's time to eliminate this quaint Victorianism
    from modern medical practice.

    The word "hermaphrodite" implies that a person is born with
    two sets of genitals -- one male and one female -- and this is something
    that cannot occur.

    The qualifiers "male" and "female," because they
    are based only upon the gonadal histology, frequently contradict the sex
    of assignment, and thus are very misleading and disturbing for parents and
    patients.

    The qualifiers "pseudo" and "true" are even more
    harmful, because they imply a sort of authenticity, or lack of same, that
    carry powerful emotional baggage"

    This is taken directly from ISNA the intersex society of North America

    chaosblitz56 July 9, 2021 4:20 pm
    "On the Word HermaphroditeThe word "hermaphrodite" is a stigmatizing and misleading word.There is growing momentum to eliminate the word "hermaphrodite"from medical literature and to use the word "intersex" in ... imntru

    Exactly! Thank you!

    Aummie July 9, 2021 6:18 pm
    "On the Word HermaphroditeThe word "hermaphrodite" is a stigmatizing and misleading word.There is growing momentum to eliminate the word "hermaphrodite"from medical literature and to use the word "intersex" in ... imntru

    Oof i didn't know that. The more you know i guess.