Sex organ

The sex chromosome determines whether a zygote will be male or female. Females have XX sex chromosomes and males have XY chromosomes. One chromosome comes each comes from the gametes of the parents. Each egg has an X chromosome and “if the sperm contains a Y chromosome, the match with the female chromosome…

Third Gender: An Enigma Third gender or third sex describes individuals who are considered to be neither man nor woman. This could be either because of any genetic abnormality, self-will or by social accord. Third gender is usually referred to mean ‘other’ gender as well. Some sociologists and anthropologists have described fourth, fifth and even some gender. Genetically, a human’s biological sex can be male, female or intersex. However, a person is identified by himself/herself or the society…

There are two categories of biological sex that determine largely which gender your parents will raise you to identify with. When a parent raises a child as male or female, they are helping the child decide who they are going to identify as. This structure could be considered modeling of the animal kingdom. Animals are not able to identify as a specific gender, and so we create their gender based upon sex. This is a An estimated 2- 5% of children have some form of gender disorder in which they…

Sex and gender may seem to go hand in hand but overtime I learned they are completely different. Our sex is biology, it is the biological characteristic that gives us our reproductive organs, where we are categorized into groups, male and female. James M. Henslin author of Essentials of Sociology a Down-To-Earth Approach explains gender best, “Gender in contrast, is a social, not a biological characteristic. Gender consists of whatever behaviors and attitudes a group considers proper for its…

Anne Fausto-Sterling in the reading “Dueling Dualisms” does a great job in illustrating the social construction approach experienced in the society today. Fausto-Sterling, believes that sex and gender are both socially constructed and take place in the human’s biology, which then play a role on the persons’ physiological aspects as well (Fausto-Sterling 127). This could be seen in the example Fausto-Sterling incorporates of Maria Patino’s case, where the phenomenal athlete was banned from the…

identity. An individual’s genetic makeup is decided at conception, when the sperm and egg are fertilised. The sex of a child is determined by their sex chromosomes as this determines their sex, an XX chromosome would produce a female child whilst an XY chromosome would produce a male child. Due to hormones that are released pre-natally there is also a direct link between an individual’s sex chromosomes of XX or XY and their external genitalia of a vagina or penis as well as their internal…

boy or a girl. The sex of the baby is represented by the reproductive organs the baby has and that determines whether the baby is a boy or a girl. It’s the biological determination whether the baby has a XX or XY chromosome that overall determines the sex. It also is linked later on in the child’s life when they go through puberty and start noticing changes in their voices or their body. Although sex is the biological there is also gender that does not have to be the same as sex. Gender is the…

The Evolution of Animal Genitalia; Sex Style Genitals are the fastest evolving organs in the animal kingdom. Rapid and divergent evolution of male genitalia represents one of the most general evolutionary patterns in animals with internal fertilization. In fact, in recent studies, it has been revealed that male genitalia evolve six times faster than limbs or dewlaps, (a fold of loose skin hanging from the neck or throat of an animal, especially that present in many cattle) explaining the large…

male or female – and leaves no place for an “alternate” sex. This creates a problem for those born intersexual and as a result corrective measures are used to correct an individuals imperfections so they are…

questions that people may have about sex, flirting, dating, love, and any other subcategory that falls under personal relationships – these same people may often find it difficult to ask the questions that they have been harboring. Sex is such a taboo topic in America, which unfortunately means that many of these questions go unanswered, leading to confusion, anger, or awkwardness in an individual’s sex life. Author Joann Ellison Rodgers released her book, “Sex: A Natural History”, in 2002; in…