JAPAN 162 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Halfcrazy, Hermaphrodite, Micropenis
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Teresa a. algoso, thoughts on hermaphroditism: miyatake gaikotsu and the. Early books on hermaphroditism was formatted around the author not being medically trained, and that the book was merely a collection of instances that the author observed. Independent publisher and scholar, generally described as anti-authority . Claims that if there is a crime in publishing this book, the responsibility for that crimes lays not with me, but with nature . Much of his writing style is meant to be humorous, sometimes offensive. But this does not imply that gaikotsu"s real goals were to be comedic, rather he did have true goals of a journalistic publishing. Gaikotsu began a conversation on how the male and female started converging. Some saw this as an evolutionary process. Author"s thesis: transitioning views on sex created a newfound fascination with people who could not be explicitly classified as male or female, leading to more conversations about hermaphroditism.
