SOC 153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Micropenis

• School: Miami University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 153
• Professor: Steven Nelson

Document Summary

Sex is the part this is physical and biological. Nature provides us with concepts of male and female. Our culture assumes that these are all aligned in a single concept of sex. Ways for dealing with this was just to turn him into a girl. Even from a scientific standpoint using chromosomes wouldn"t help because there is xx, xy, xx yy and many other combinations if you just looked at it this way. When you make it dichotomous in your mind we lose track of all these possibilities. Simply describes whom one feels sexually attracted to, although we have different words, depending on your sex(heterosexual, homosexual) 200,000 people who are in this category. External genitals that cannot be easily classified as male or female. Incomplete or unusual development of those organs. Inconsistency between the external genitals and the internal reproductive organs. Abnormal development of the testicles and ovaries. Inability of the body to respond normally to sex related hormones.