Can a person that is born with both male and female sexual organs self procreate?

Answer 1

To this point no because true hermaphrodites are usually born with non-functional reproductive systems, and in any case true hermaphrodites don't end up with a scrotum since the material used to make the scrotum in males is used to produce the labia majora of the female's vulva. As the tissue goes toward that end, any testicles the hermaphrodite has will be kept too close to the body cavity, and therefore the temperature will be too high for them to complete spermatogenesis (and thus the hermaphrodite will be sterile in that regard).

However, it should be noted that the whole "DNA is too similar" idea is a myth. While you stand a 50/50 chance of producing a non-functional child by it inheriting two Y chromosomes and no X (which is not viable), even if the DNA of the hermaphrodite is male, it still has a 50% chance of uniting an X and Y, at which point the embryo would likely be viable, as you know the DNA it inherited produced a viable organism... and if the hermaphrodite's DNA happens to be genetically female, then you have no problem. Human beings survive just fine with an extra X chromosome.

DNA has no problems replicating itself with similar or identical strands, and the assumed incidence of physical defects associated with inbreeding, while higher than breeding with someone outside the family line, is only 6% compared to 3%, and hardly the disastrous odds portending certain doom and gloom for the offspring many think such a mating must entail.

It may be morally reprehensible and disgusting to consider in our society, but there have been tons of children produced by cousins mating with each other, brothers and sisters mating with each other, parents and their children mating with each other, and they're generally as healthy as all the rest.

So far, though, only one virgin birth has been reported, and Jesus's father was more than willing to take responsibility for being the other parent... which means at this point the phrase "go f**k yourself" is still just a fanciful insult. =)

Answer 2

true hermaphrodites do exist in humans and many animals and plants (both ovary and testis present). It is of course considered ABNORMAL in the human, but the USUAL design of many species in nature.

nature does not use this kind of self fertilization reproduction in naturally hermaphroditic organisms-animals very often! (there are self pollinating flowers out there however, but most are not self pollinating; cross-pollination in plants and animals allows for greater genetic variation) Usually two hermaphrodite animals get together to mate and make more. However, "self fertilization" of a human hermaphrodite is not possible physically due to the anatomy setup, but it is possible that if genuinly MATURE normal sperm and egg were extracted from the hermaphrodite, which might be hard to find, that in vitro fertilization might be possible, but the risk of duplicating lethal recessives is higher when the chromosomes are from the same organism, even if the sperm and egg will maybe have undergone crossing over in meiosis and made more variation. Weird idea genetically. Why would someone with an abnormal genetic condition want to try to duplicate the genetic problem. Good reason not to have kids!

True hermaphrodite is not the same as pseudohermaphrodites (several kinds in humans) who are either male or female genetically and based on either ovary or testis, but they also have mix and match masc-fem structures inside and outside when genitalia are examined.

I wrote about true vs pseudo hermaphrodites a few weeks ago.

Answer 3

No when a person has both Female & Male sexual parts one of them is not all the way formed and therefore cannot function properly so no...the person could not procreate...And worms do not do it all the time they need a partner to reproduce.

Answer 4

I learned on yahoo answers that folks born with testicular and ovarian tissues cannot reproduce. But yahoo answers answerer is my only source. but he seemed authoritative. You are not the first person who has asked this question here. You should realize that most intersex individuals don't have complete sets of both kinds of genitalia.

Answer 5

Niether pro nor self pro

Answer 6

no they cannot. the DNA is too close, and that would seriously mess up any fetus to the point where it dies quickly. it would be mixing the same DNA, which when you think of people mating with cousins, it is bad, because the DNA is too similar.

Answer 7

I just vomited in my mouth.

Holy Hell, you are disturbed. I hope you're never alone with any barnyard animals, no telling what kind of sick things you'd do.

Answer 8

theres no such thing as a person being born with both

Answer 9

people that have both sex organs have nonfunctional reproductive systems and can not have children ---by themselves or with another person

Answer 10

Worms do it all the time.