Sex, we have heard this word several times. We have read it when we fill up forms or sign up for new account on some email based websites, but that refers to gender. We all know these things. But what exactly is sex?
Well, my friends the answer is not simple. I’ve asked many people about this, but the answers were not satisfactory. They normally answered a man and a woman having sex is sex. But the definition sex had changed a long ago. For example, there once was a time when homosexuality was not tolerable even in western countries, nowadays it is accepted in many countries. The time has changed a lot. New kinds of STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) came. New techniques of birth control were introduced. Many kinds of sexual toys were invented. Prostitution is legalized in many parts of the world. We will discuss about these subjects later on other articles. In this article, we will discuss about sexual organs.
Sexual Organs – Female
We start this article by describing clitoris. Many experts consider the clitoris to be penis that just didn’t grow. They describe the entire female genitalia as male organs that never matured. Understandably, all the scholars who feel this way are men. Women experts look at it another way. According to them, the penis is nothing more than an overgrown clitoris. They consider the male organ a primitive version of the more ‘refined’ female sexual apparatus.
Everybody is about half right. At an early stage in development, the human embryo has both male and female sexual organs. They exist in the form of primitive tissue that later differentiates into a specialized organ. The embryo has a bisexual phallus; in those destined to be male it differentiates into a penis. Future girls will end up with a clitoris. According to the chromosomal decision made at the microsecond of conception, the tiny being may evolve one day into either a topless dancer or a well-muscled bouncer. For the moment, however, the future chorus girl is as well equipped as the men who will, twenty years from now, whistle and stamp their feet in appreciation of her feminine charms. Likewise, the future lifeguard has, potentially, all the pelvic endowments of the bikini-clad lovelies who will one day swarm around him.
Fortunately for those concerned, long before birth, the sexual structures of the suppressed sex atrophy and all but disappear. At the time of delivery the normal infant has clear-cut and distinctive sexual features. The obstetrician can tell the parents whether it’s a boy or a girl. But if he were completely honest, he would say: Congratulations, you are the proud parents of a six pound (98 per cent) girl!’ Because at least two per cent of the sexual organs of the male and female really belong to the other sex. Boys are two per cent girls and girls are two per cent boys. This is proportion in normal people – in abnormal cases the percentage can be a lot higher. For example, the testicles are nothing more than female ovaries which have found a new home in the scrotum. (Some experts prefer to consider the ovaries merely testicles which did not descend. The point of view usually depends on whether the expert has testicles or ovaries.)
If the embryo is going to be a boy, the future testicles will drop through the pelvic cavity into the labia majora and expand them into a scrotum. The undifferentiated phallus increases dramatically in size and in the process is pierced by the urethra to become the penis. If the embryo is to follow the female path, there are fewer changes required. The ovaries stay where they are. The labia majora also remain essentially unchanged. Only a few minor alterations are required to produce uncomplicated structures like the vagina and labia minora. This doesn’t mean that if the original sexual organs don’t develop, the embryo will be female. At the earliest stages, the embryo has little more than gonads – future ovaries or testicles; genital swellings – future labia majora or scrotum; and phallus – future penis or clitoris. If the child is going to be sexually distinctive as male or female, development must occur in one direction or the other. In the male this development is fairly complicated. The female has a much shorter distance to travel. This has led some researchers, all of them women, to suggest that every embryo is originally female. About half of them (the unlucky ones according to these ladies) develop into males.
This is all for this article. You will read rest of this topic in the next article.
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