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adult woman by withdrawal of the ovarian 

 secretion alone. " There must be," he says, 

 " some gross change in those parts of the endo- 

 critic system, especially apart from the genital 

 glands, which normally produce masculinity — • 

 a potentiality that appears to be concentrated 

 in the suprarenals, the pituitary and probably 

 in the pineal." 



What, then, do we mean by " male " and 

 " female " in man ? Take Dr Russell 

 Andrews' patient : photographs (2, plate oppo- 

 site p. 243) show a rounded bodily outline, 

 hairless face, well-developed mammae — the 

 female sex charateristics in every respect which 

 the ordinary person could detect. Yet an 

 operation proved that the sex glands themselves 

 were male. 



Piesumably extreme cases like the above are 

 rare. Obviously operations cannot be per- 

 formed on all those with female-type bodies 

 who do not bear children, to determine the 

 primary sex, and conversely with men. This 

 does, however, point the obvious question : 

 Are not some we classify as men more male or 

 masculine than others — some we classify as 

 women more feminine than others ? Bearing in 

 mind the fact that the genetic basis for both 

 sexes exists in each individual, are not some 

 women more masculine than others, some men 

 more feminine than others ? However much we 



