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Extra info for Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, Bodies and Selves in Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories
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And what was the role of sexual partners, fiancé(e)s or spouses? Finally, what were the policies of the – religious, medical and legal – authorities? I will read the available fragments of information on secrecy and non-intervention as symptoms of an underlying rationale, a non-verbalized logic when dealing with doubtful sex, other than the logic that the sex of the body should determine the sex of the person. What do the sources reveal about such a logic behind the practice of secrecy and non-intervention?
58 Often, such sexual relations were a consequence of the ease of physical contact between girls or women. This is probably one of the reasons they could easily be hushed up. Johanna K. slept with her lover for three years without arousing suspicion. During the first half of the century, it was mostly only if rumours started, that such relations forced hermaphrodites raised as women to disclose themselves to a physician. Later case histories also reveal that it was at the hermaphrodite’s instigation that action was taken.
We do not know. What we do know, however, is that for him marriage was a sanctified union. He very much doubted whether his own marriage was valid and whether having sex did not violate Christian morality. His attempts at abstinence seem to have originated in this fear rather than in his sexual dissatisfaction. Therefore, in the first instance he did not seek advice from doctors, but from priests. For him, and for many others, a doubtful sex in the first place caused moral doubts. There is evidence that other hermaphrodites or people closely involved with them also primarily sought out clerical officials.