If there are seven sexes...
Then what am I?
http://www.intersexualite.org/seven-sexes.htmlManuel Velandia, in an exclusive report for AG Magazine, ponders the most important and recent developments concerning the definition of sex.
Translated by Curtis E. Hinkle with permission from the author.
There are scientific claims which maintain that language produces and constructs our world. What this means is
that if there is not a word for something, then it does not exist in reality, and by extension, that if people do not identify in a positive manner with the word used to define their sex and sexuality or an aspect of it, they have identity issues.
Hermaphrodite is a word that strikes many as strange. If so, then I would have to say that nature is also strange: within the natural world the "necessity of being" socially sexed is not reinforced and confirmed in the same manner as in our discourse; rather, scientific discourse about sex and sexuality has not managed to go beyond the literary text to the experiential reality of some human bodies or, more specifically, the reality as experienced by some people as a result of their body.
