How did the term Hermaphrodite come about?

Question

We are studying Sociology 101 and the question came up where did the term hermaphrodite come from? any answers/

Answer 1

HERMAPHRODITOS: was the bisexual offspring of the messenger god Hermes and Aphrodite, the goddess of love. According to one Greeek Myth, this handsome boy excited the passion of Salmacis, who was a mynph of a fountain near the city of Halicarnassus in Asia Minor. when the young hermaphroditos ignored her attentions, Salmacis prayed to the gods that she might be eternally united with him. The wish was granted when he bathed in some waters and she merged with him physically. the reult was a female boy, hence the term hermaphrodite. but hermaphsoditos was not emasculated like Attis, the lover of the Phrygian motehr goddes Cybele, for this west Asian od intentionally cut off his own manhood.

Answer 2

The term "hermaphrodite" derives from Hermaphroditus, the son of Hermes and Aphrodite in Greek mythology, who was fused with a nymph, resulting in one possessing physical traits of both sexes. Thus Hermaphroditus was, by the modern terminology, a simultaneous hermaphrodite. The mythological figure of Tiresias, who figures in the Oedipus cycle as well as the Odyssey, was a sequential hermaphrodite, having been changed from a man to a woman and back by the gods.

Answer 3

The word "hermaphrodite" is a stigmatizing and misleading word.
There is growing momentum to eliminate the word "hermaphrodite"
from medical literature and to use the word "intersex" in its
place. While some intersex people do reclaim the word "hermaphrodite"
with pride to reference themselves (like words such as "dyke"
and "queer" have been reclaimed by LGBT people), it should be
generally avoided except under specific circumstances.




Victorian doctors believed that the gonads were the seat of "true
sex," and thus created a system of nomenclature -- in the absence of
any knowledge of genetics, endocrinology, or embryology -- which categorized
people as "male pseudohermaphrodite," "female pseudohermaphrodite,"
or "true hermaphrodite." It's time to eliminate this quaint Victorianism
from modern medical practice.



The word "hermaphrodite" implies that a person is born with
two sets of genitals -- one male and one female -- and this is something
that cannot occur.



The qualifiers "male" and "female," because they
are based only upon the gonadal histology, frequently contradict the sex
of assignment, and thus are very misleading and disturbing for parents and
patients.



The qualifiers "pseudo" and "true" are even more
harmful, because they imply a sort of authenticity, or lack of same, that
carry powerful emotional baggage.

Answer 4

i'm undecided who the 1st hermaphrodite become, try googling. As for the call,it comes from the Greek Goddess Aphrodite who become meant to be the main tasty element guy could lay eyes on. considering that a hermaphrodite has the sexual characteristics of woman and male they named the so referred to as individual a hermaphrodite. on the instant inter sexed may well be extra generalized. no count what, society isn't prepared to settle for the paradox.

Answer 5

This is basically where it came from though I can't remember the exact details. Hermaphrodite was the child of Hermes and Aphrodite (in Greek mythology). Their weird sexual habits gave rise to Hermaphrodite who had both sex organs.

Answer 6

Hermaphroditos or Hermaphroditus was an offspring of hermes and Aphrodite who was of both sexes. There are many statues of this creature. Dr. Carl G. Jung had his own theory about them, and perhaps Joseph Campbell did as well.

Answer 7

Hermaphroditus' name is derived from those of his parents Hermes and Aphrodite. He was raised by nymphs on Mount Ida, a sacred mountain in Phrygia. At the age of fifteen, he grew bored of his surroundings and traveled the cities of Lycia and Caria. It was in the woods of Caria that he encountered Salmacis the Naiad in her pool. She was overcome by lust for the boy, and tried to seduce him, but was rejected. When he thought her to be gone, Hermaphroditus undressed and entered the waters of the empty pool. Salmacis sprang out from behind a tree and jumped into the pool. She wrapped herself around the boy, forcibly kissing him and touching his breast. While he struggled, she called out to the gods that they should never part. Her wish was granted, and their bodies blended into one intersexual form. Hermaphroditus, in his shame and grief, made his own vow, cursing the pool so that any other who bathes within it shall be transformed as well.

Answer 8

aphrodite the goddess of love, hermes (a busy guy) a lover (primarily messenger of the gods but used to get up to some other stuff.) So, a mix of guy/gal

Answer 9

Hermes and Aphrodite two Greek gods. Look up the story.

Answer 10

herm meant changing and aphrodite was synonymous with sex and love. i think, i'm probably wrong.