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Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, Bodies and Selves in Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories
A young person woman is mocked whilst she takes a bathtub along with her friends, simply because her genitals appear like these of a boy. a pair visits a physician asking to ‘create extra space’ within the lady for sex. a physician unearths testicular tissue in a lady with appendicitis, and comes to a decision to maintain his findings quiet.
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The endangered reputations of the people related to a hermaphrodite may also have been a reason many hermaphrodites were left alone. This was true for parents and family, as we saw above, but it affected intimate friends and spouses even more. In a world where, outside marriage, physical intimacies were very much restricted to one’s own sex, the discovery of an inappropriate or doubtful sex could – in hindsight – put all sorts of seemingly everyday situations in an immoral or indecent light. Disclosing someone else’s sexual ambiguity to religious, legal or medical authorities could therefore severely affect one’s own honour.
There is one case, described in 1856, that might provide the key to this. , Maria Oh. was surprised to find herself pregnant. So was the village which had always thought that Maria Oh. was not particularly interested in men. Johanna K. herself had always thought that since the semen flowed along the outside there was no danger of getting anyone pregnant. ’s, which confirmed that she was the child’s father. When Traxel, the forensic medical expert in the case, asked himself whether Johanna K. indd 28 11/15/11 4:45 PM secrecy and disclosure 29 should be made to wear men’s clothing from now on, he seriously considered the following objection: Johanna K.
He very much doubted whether his own marriage was valid and whether having sex did not violate Christian morality. His attempts at abstinence seem to have originated in this fear rather than in his sexual dissatisfaction. Therefore, in the first instance he did not seek advice from doctors, but from priests. For him, and for many others, a doubtful sex in the first place caused moral doubts. There is evidence that other hermaphrodites or people closely involved with them also primarily sought out clerical officials.