In the literature of the Roman Era, a case of macrosomia and genital ambiguity in a newborn is described. Textual evidence concerning this case of androgynism and its symbolism is provided in the present study. Medical interpretation of such cases covers the entire spectrum of differential diagnosis of macrosomia concurrent with genital ambiguity. Female pseudohermaphroditism may be excluded fr...

I many circumstances, evaluations are based on empirical data. However, some observations may be imprecise, meaning that it is not entirely clear what occurred in them. We address the question of how beliefs are formed in these situations. The individual in our model is essentially a “frequentist.” He first makes a subjective judgment about the occurrence of the event for each imprecise observa...

Klinefelter’s syndrome (KFS) is the most common male sex chromosomal disorder. KFS patients are usually tall and have complete male sexual differentiation. In this report, we present two interesting cases of KFS. Our first patient had genital ambiguity and second child had short stature due to growth hormone deficiency.

This article addresses the complexity in diagnosis, gender assignment and management in patients with sexual ambiguity and malformed sexual organs. Between 1984 and 1993, nine children and 10 adult patients with this ailment were treated in the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia. All children had clitorovaginoplasty and adults had different surgical procedures such as feminisation and...

Previous research on sexually victimized men has mainly addressed the acute symptoms seen in hospital emergency rooms and psychiatric clinics. Findings are reported on 14 men, all but 1 of whom had been sexually traumatized much earlier in life, as boys or young adults. Several problem areas are described: repression, denial, or normalization of the trauma; self-blame and shame; posttraumatic s...

Alfred Jost, the French Physiologist (1974) (1), in some magnificent experiments, showed that all castrated rabbit embryos, before sex differentiation, produced female offspring regardless of the chromosomal constitution (2). Male gonads and their essential hormones, i.e. anti-Mullerian factor to inhibit Mullerian development and testosterone to initiate the Wolfferian growth and convert the ur...

The article deals with the issue of terminology used to define different phenomena illegal sexual interaction through indirect communication – via electronic means, including Internet. There is a certain ambiguity some concepts and terms in context abuse against children violation their integrity, for instance such as “sexting” “online grooming”. At same time Criminal Code Russian Federation op...