The Five Sexes - University of California, San Diego

day: hermaphrodites were compelled to choose an established gender role and stick with it. The penalty for transgression was often death. Thus in the 1600s a Scottish hermaphrodite living as a womanwas buried alive after impregnating his/her master's daughter. For questions of inheritance, legitimacy, paternity,

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