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dinarily the combative male and the submissive female are differ- 

 entiated by contrasts of skin and hair, fat and bone structure. 

 The combative male is built as a fighting machine, the submissive 

 female as an organism of attractive grace and beauty for impreg- 

 nation and parturition. When one sees the fragile woman aggres- 

 sive, the masculinoid woman submissive, one may infer an educa- 

 tion of experience that has brought the usually recessive glands 

 into the foreground, and by their hyperactivity imposed a bisex- 

 uality of function upon a unisexual anatomic structure. A man 

 apparently as formidable as a tyrannosaurus, may be ruled by 

 his wife for the same reason. These combinations of a single 

 organic sexuality with a functional bisexuality, based upon 

 internal secretion disturbances, are frequent, and merit the name 

 of functional hermaphrodites or mixed sex types. 



Mixed Sex and the Family 



The psychology of the family in its relation to the endocrine 

 traits of its members is something that still remains to be thor- 

 oughly worked out as a problem of tremendous importance. Par- 

 ticularly are the reactions of the mixed sex types to be carefully 

 considered. For, since the family is fundamentally a sex institu- 

 tion, devised to satisfy the sex needs, all the way from compan- 

 ionship to parenthood, it is apparent that the mixed sex types 

 will be tried the hardest by its inexorable conditions. It is in 

 relation to the mother (or nurse) first, the father next, and other 

 associates in proportion to their proximity, that the primary 

 endocrine-vegetative mechanisms, the germs of the growing soul, 

 become established. These are superimposed upon the hereditary 

 instinct apparatus. 



Fear, rage and love reactions develop first in association with 

 the suckling reflex, and the accompaniments, the mother's smile 

 and voice, the color of her hair, eyes and skin, her breasts and 

 odors. Each time the babe reacts to a pleasant or unpleasant 

 stimulus, there is an outpouring of certain internal secretions, a 

 cessation of others, a tingling of certain vegetative nerves and 

 organs, a hushing of others. The ensemble of reactions tends 

 to be repeated around the same stimulus, until the whole becomes 

 automatic. One may observe the same process in the lower 

 animals. Offer a piece of meat to a dog and his mouth waters. 

 Ring a bell before offering the meat. Repeat this a number of 

 times, and after a while the mere ringing of the bell, without the 



