Proto-Endocrinological Theories of Masculinity/Femininity (1490–1904).
From the mid-seventeenth century, resorption of a testicular "ferment" and resorption of some part of the semen constituted reputable accounts of secondary sexual characteristics. Only in the early twentieth century was the latter, "recrementitious secretion" theory, explicitly considered superseded...
| Publicado en: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 53; no. 7; pp. 2489 - 2509 |
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