YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/WHY HUSBANDS DON’T HAVE ORGASM: TESTOSTERONE POISONING – EVE’S RIB
Starting at approximately three weeks of development in the uterus, if there is an X/broken-X (Y) chromosome pattern with one of the X chromosomes missing its lower right leg, a male will develop in relationship to the presence of testosterone. Overstating the case, we could say that the clitoris grows out to a penis, the ovaries become testicles and drop down into a sac created when the labia grow together. You have discovered the line where the scrotum grew together, the line called the penoscrotal raphe, the R area of sensitivity along the scrotom up the penis to the frenulum.
This theory of “male from female” is called “inductor” theory in that the male is induced by androgens and MIS, Mullerian Inhibiting Substance, which causes certain female formations to disappear in utero. Early female development is not dependent on hormones; it is autonomous. Mary Jane Sherfey proposed this idea in her book The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality. While not totally accurate and in many ways incomplete, the earlier Freudian notion of male superiority or “penis envy” is further from neurophysiological accuracy than inductor theory.
Of course, masculinity and femininity are not mutually exclusive developmental axes. You can be less feminine in terms of society’s criteria without being more masculine, and you can be more feminine without being less masculine. I had the husbands and wives point to areas on the following lines to show, how they felt about their own gender orientation and share these feelings with one another.
FEMALENESS a little very much
Throughout life, even throughout the day, people vary on both axes. It is a mistake to ascribe a natural superiority in sexual function to either gender’s sexual response.
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