Definition and meaning of secondary male or female:

secondary male or female - a male or female that is the result of sex change. A secondary male would be derived from a protogynous female, in which there is a regression of the ovaries and a proliferation of testicular tissues. A secondary female would be derived from a protandrous male in which the female primary sex organs replace the testes

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Definition and meaning of Primary male or female:

Primary male or female - a male or female that is genetically determined at birth or hatching and is not the result of sex change

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(also called vaginoplasty or vaginal reconstruction surgery) For changing anatomical sex from male to female, the testicles are removed and the skin of foreskin and penis is usually inverted, as a flap preserving blood and nerve supplies (a technique pioneered by Sir Harold Gillies in 1951) to form a fully sensate vagina (vaginoplasty). A clitoris fully supplied with nerve endings (innervated) can be formed from part of the glans of the penis. If the patient has been circumcised (removal of the foreskin), or if the surge ...

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Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female, Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female - History, Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female - The operation, Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female - Other related procedures

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Female genital cutting (FGC) refers to a number of procedures performed for cultural, rather than medical, reasons on the female genitalia. Although occasionally practiced by some doctors in the United States until 1958, in recent years it is only common in parts of Africa and by minority groups in some countries of the Middle East. Less frequently, it occurs among some immigrant communities in parts of Asia and the Pacific, North and Latin America, and Europe. Opponents of these practices use the term female genital mutilation (FG ...

Including:

• Female genital cutting - Different forms
• Female genital cutting - Clitoridotomy
• Female genital cutting - Clitoridectomy
• Female genital cutting - Infibulation
• Female genital cutting - Other types of female circumcision
• Female genital cutting - Areas of practice
• Female genital cutting - Cultural background
• Female genital cutting - Medical consequences
• Female genital cutting - Female Genital Cutting and Human Rights
• Female genital cutting - Legal status
• Female genital cutting - Ending Forms of female genital cutting
• Female genital cutting - Female genital cutting in popular culture

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The Battle of Maling (馬陵之戰) was a battle between the states of Qi and Wei in the warring states period. In 342 BC, the state of Wei attacked the state of Han, and Han turned to Qi for help. Again Tian Ji and Sun Bin acted as co-commanders of the Qi army to save Han. In order to mislead his enemy, Sun Bin ordered his soldiers to make less stoves day by day. As Pang Juan, general of Wei, saw this, he judged the soldiers of Qi were leaving their army and decided to pursue the Qi army. When Pang Juan arrived in Maling, the Qi army launched a surprise attack. Seeing his army ...

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Dead white men or DWEM (an acronym standing for "Dead White European Male"), is a pejorative term used most commonly to refer to a tradition of thought and pedagogy which stresses the importance of individual European males from the past, at the expense of other forces (economic or social, for example) or groups of people (for example, non-Europeans and women). Some of those most often included in this definition include Plato, Dante, Chri ...

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• Dead White Males - History and usage
• Dead White Males - Critics of the term
• Dead White Males - Popular culture

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In gay slang, a beard is a female companion used to hide a gay man's sexuality by appearing in public as if she and the gay man were a heterosexual couple. To do this with a heterosexual woman without letting your companion know you are gay is generally considered poor form. The term originated in the mid-1960s. It is derived from the notion that a man with a woman on his arm looks more butch, like a man with a beard. Closeted gay men and lesbians may also take part in this kind of relationship, to their mutual advantage. In th ...

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The anti-rape female condom (aka anti-rape condom, intended brand name Rapex) was invented by Sonette Ehlers, a South African woman. It's intended to prevent rape by hooking onto an attacker's penis, hurting and disabling him. The device is a latex sheath held firm by shafts of sharp, inward-facing microscopic barbs that would be worn by a woman in her vagina like a tampon. Should an attacker attempt vaginal rape, the penis would penetrate the latex and be hooked by the barbs, causing the attacker pain and (ideall ...

Including:

• Anti-rape female condom - Criticism
• Anti-rape female condom - Background

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Lili Elbe was the first known recipient of male-to-female sex reassignment surgery in Germany in 1930. She was the subject of five surgeries- penectomy and orchidectomy, one intended to transplant ovaries, one to remove the ovaries after transplant rejection, and vaginoplasty. However, she died three months after her fifth operation. Christine Jorgensen was likely the most famous recipient of sex reassignment surgery, having her surgery done in Denmark in late 1952 and being outed right afterwar ...

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Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female, Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female - History, Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female - The operation, Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female - Other related procedures

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When using the One Power one weaves flows of different elements: Earth, Spirit, Water, Air, and Fire. Men are generally stronger with Fire and Earth, while women are generally stronger with Air and Water; significant strength in Spirit is distributed equally, and relatively rare in either. Male channelers, in general, are capable of holding more of the Power than female ones, while women generally are more dextrous in the weaving of the Power. Also, male channelers cannot link to form a "Circle" of multiple channele ...

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One Power, One Power - Nature of the True Source, One Power - Channelers, One Power - Differences between Male and Female Channelers, One Power - Aes Sedai, One Power - The Taint on Saidin

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For transmen, taking androgens (i.e. testosterone) causes reversible and irreversible changes. Hormone replacement therapy trans - Changes. deepening of the voice, growth of facial and body hair, male pattern baldness, an enlargement of the clitoris, growth spurt and closure of growth plates if given before the end of puberty, and possible shrinking and/or sof ...

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Hormone replacement therapy trans, Hormone replacement therapy trans - Formal requirements for HRT, Hormone replacement therapy trans - HRT female-to-male, Hormone replacement therapy trans - Changes, Hormone replacement therapy trans - Contraindications, Hormone replacement therapy trans - Types of Androgen Therapy:, Hormone replacement therapy trans - Non-Testosterone Hormonal Therapy, Hormone replacement therapy trans - Testosterone Effects:, Hormone replacement therapy trans - HRT male-to-female, Hormone replacement therapy trans - Changes, Hormone replacement therapy trans - Contraindications, Hormone replacement therapy trans - Types of Therapy:, Hormone replacement therapy trans - Estrogens:, Hormone replacement therapy trans - Progestogens:, Hormone replacement therapy trans - Anti-androgens:, Hormone replacement therapy trans - Hormone Effects:

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Other writers, often under the guise of "debates" between lovers of boys and lovers of women, have recorded other arguments used for and against pederasty. Some, like the charge that the practice was "unnatural" and not to be found among "the lions and the bears," applied to all relationships between men and youths. According to Lucian (a late author, writing 700 years after the apogee of Classical pederasty), in his Erotes, "neither the birds who ride the winds, nor the fishes fated to their wet element, nor the animals on land seek ...

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Philosophy of Greek pederasty, Philosophy of Greek pederasty - Chaste pederasty, Philosophy of Greek pederasty - Phaedrus, Philosophy of Greek pederasty - Laws, Philosophy of Greek pederasty - Other examples, Philosophy of Greek pederasty - Ethical critiques, Philosophy of Greek pederasty - Male vs. female love, Philosophy of Greek pederasty - Suppression of sexual pederasty

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The feminist movement, and the increasing social status of women in modern society, have led to women's sexuality as being reassessed as a subject in its own right. During the 1970s and 1980s, in the wake of the sexual revolution, numerous feminist writers started to address the question of female sexuality from their own female perspective, rather than allowing female sexuality to be defined in terms of largely male studies. Writers such as Germaine Greer, Simone de Beauvoir and Camille Paglia were particularly influential in t ...

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Female sexuality, Female sexuality - Historical conceptions of female sexuality, Female sexuality - Modern studies of female sexuality, Female sexuality - Feminist concepts

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Female Principle Once the unmanifest One becomes the Duad, duality pervades the kosmos, often represented as male and female, or as active and passive, spirit and matter, mind and body, positive and negative.

These latter expressions are much to be preferred because of their lack of personal attributes. Synonyms for the female principle are root-matter, mulaprakriti, the eternal cosmic Virgin, Great Mother, womb of nature, cosmic ark, etc. The physical distinction which furnishes this symbol to human minds is that of duality; and if we reason from below to above, we may easily fall into the error of assigning attributes of physical human nature to the celestial beings and formative powers of the kosmos, resulting in phallicism and the degradation of sacred symbols.

The male and female principles are not entities in themselves but aspects of a unity; and since every element is compound, the words male and female as applied to any element signify merely a temporary predominance of the one or the other quality. Again, the distinction is not one of fundamental nature but of relationship, so that what is female in relation to one thing may be male in relation to another.

(See also: Female Principle, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Representations of female sexuality date back to prehistoric times; there is clear evidence of the depiction of female fecundity in ancient Venus figurines. Fertility goddesses are common in many ancient cultures, and in many cultures are also the gods of sex, marriage, and love. In the ancient civilizations of India, Japan, and China, the subject of female sexuality found expression in several writings and commentaries. For example, much of the Kam ...

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Female sexuality, Female sexuality - Historical conceptions of female sexuality, Female sexuality - Modern studies of female sexuality, Female sexuality - Feminist concepts

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The male hustler may solicit clients on the street (like pre-1990's Times Square in New York, Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles or the Porte Dauphine in Paris), or in another public space (like a bus terminal, park or rest stop), in a bar (such as the former gay hustler bars Rounds in New York or Numbers in Los Angeles, or go-go bars in Thailand and the Philippines), a dance club, through print advertisements (such as "massage therapist" ads) or -- in recent years -- through the Internet (such as "students seeking generous ...

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Male prostitute, Male prostitute - Male prostitution, Male prostitute - The hustler in popular culture, Male prostitute - Books on hustling, Male prostitute - The hustler in literature, Male prostitute - The hustler in theater, Male prostitute - The hustler in cinema, Male prostitute - Films with a hustler as a main character, Male prostitute - Other films that include hustlers, Male prostitute - Documentary films, Male prostitute - The hustler in photography, Male prostitute - People who have engaged in male prostitution

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Paige Harrison, a Chicago based author coined the term Female-Led in 2004, and has begun to advance this terminology to describe her approach to an intentional relationship lifestyle model of how many men and women desire to live together. Female-Led is an approach which seeks a broader definition of romance by recognizing that many males want to express their male submissive sexuality by living within a healthy and mutually-satisfying relationship that is based upon male submission to a female. A Female-Led relationship should meet t ...

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Loving Female Authority, Loving Female Authority - Origin, Loving Female Authority - Female-Led Relationships

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In a human male orgasm, there are rapid, rhythmic contractions of the prostate, urethra and the muscles at the base of the penis, which (in the adult) typically forces stored semen to be expelled through the penis's urethral opening. This is referred to as ejaculation. The process usually takes from 3 to 10 seconds. The process is usually, but not always, extremely pleasurable. Orgasm is generally induced by direct stimulation of the penis. Some men experience heightened orgasm by direct stimu ...

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Orgasm, Orgasm - General, Orgasm - Shared physiology, Orgasm - Human male orgasm, Orgasm - Male prostate orgasm, Orgasm - Male multiple orgasms, Orgasm - Human female orgasm, Orgasm - The evolutionary purpose of orgasms, Orgasm - Vaginal versus clitoral orgasms, Orgasm - Controversy: definition of orgasm, Orgasm - Orgasm in post-operative transsexuals, Orgasm - Transwomen, Orgasm - Transmen, Orgasm - Orgasmic dysfunction, Orgasm - Drugs and orgasm, Orgasm - Orgasm in Tantric sex, Orgasm - Orgasm in non-humans, Orgasm - Non-sexual meaning of the word orgasm

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In a human male orgasm, there are rapid, rhythmic contractions of the prostate, urethra and the muscles at the base of the penis, which (in the adult) typically forces stored semen to be expelled through the penis' urethral opening. This is referred to as ejaculation. The process usually takes from 3 to 10 seconds. The process is usually, but not always, extremely pleasurable. Orgasm is generally induced by direct stimulation of the penis. Some men experience heightened orgasm by direct stimu ...

See also:

Orgasm, Orgasm - General, Orgasm - Shared physiology, Orgasm - Human male orgasm, Orgasm - Male prostate orgasm, Orgasm - Male multiple orgasms, Orgasm - Human female orgasm, Orgasm - The evolutionary purpose of orgasms, Orgasm - Vaginal versus clitoral orgasms, Orgasm - Controversy: definition of orgasm, Orgasm - Orgasm in post-operative transsexuals, Orgasm - Transwomen, Orgasm - Transmen, Orgasm - Orgasmic dysfunction, Orgasm - Drugs and orgasm, Orgasm - Orgasm in Tantric sex, Orgasm - Orgasm in non-humans, Orgasm - Non-sexual meaning of the word orgasm

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In a human female orgasm, orgasm is preceded by moistening of the vaginal walls, and an enlargement of the clitoris due to increased blood flow trapped in the clitoris's spongy tissue. Some women exhibit a sex flush; a reddening of the skin over much of the body due to increased blood flow to the skin. As a woman comes closer to having orgasm, the clitoris moves inward under the clitoral hood, and the labia minora (minor lips) becomes darker. As orgasm becomes imminent, the vagina decreases in size by about 30% and also becomes congested wit ...

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Orgasm, Orgasm - General, Orgasm - Shared physiology, Orgasm - Human male orgasm, Orgasm - Male prostate orgasm, Orgasm - Male multiple orgasms, Orgasm - Human female orgasm, Orgasm - The evolutionary purpose of orgasms, Orgasm - Vaginal versus clitoral orgasms, Orgasm - Controversy: definition of orgasm, Orgasm - Orgasm in post-operative transsexuals, Orgasm - Transwomen, Orgasm - Transmen, Orgasm - Orgasmic dysfunction, Orgasm - Drugs and orgasm, Orgasm - Orgasm in Tantric sex, Orgasm - Orgasm in non-humans, Orgasm - Non-sexual meaning of the word orgasm

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