if a hermaphrodite was able to?

Question

have sex with them selves could they reproduce with themselves? would it be a clone or a inbread?

Answer 1

hypothetical is really not attractive.

and it is impossible for these type of individuals to do what has been sugeested.

Answer 2

The right term is Intersexed people. Many intersexed people have reclaimed the word hermaphrodite, however not all of them, have and there are many misconceptions around the usage of this word.
Firstly, an intersexual or intersex person (or organism of any unisexual species) is one who is born with genitalia and/or secondary sex characteristics determined as neither exclusively male nor female, or which combine features of the male and female sexes. The terms hermaphrodite and pseudohermaphrodite, introduced in the 19th century, are now considered antiquated, misleading and stigmatizing, and patient advocates call for these terms to be abandoned. The phrase "ambiguous genitalia" refers specifically to genital appearance, but not all intersex conditions result in atypical genital appearance. According to the highest estimates (Fausto-Sterling et. al., 2000) perhaps 1 percent of live births exhibit some degree of sexual ambiguity and that between 0.1% and 0.2% of live births are ambiguous enough to become the subject of specialist medical attention, including surgery to disguise their sexual ambiguity. Intersex --"A label often used by the medical communities to connote sex chromosome patterns differing from xx and xy, abiguous genitalia, or a mixture of these things. The term intersex replaced the outdated and incorrect classification of some humans as "hermaphrodites". The term "intersex" is often used to highlight cultural preferences of certain body shapes, sizes, and chromosome patterns.

Firstly, intersexed people have bodies just the same as other people and therefore cannot have sex with themselves for reprductive purposes (whilst anyone can masturbate, this is not the same). Intersex human beings cannot reproduce with there own body as any other human being cannot reproduce with themselves.

Also, this sort of question troubles me, because I realise that so many people do not know what a hermaphrodite or intersex person is (as we live among other people, function as other people and the only difference is on a chromozonal and/or genital level.)

Intersexes are often marginalized or stigmatized by societies in order to preserve the western binary gender and sex systems which declare that there are only two sexes, and only two corresponding genders, that both are biological, and that the placement of certain sex and gender labels on human bodies mean something, signify something, often socially and religeously. For this reason, many intersexes are subjected to cosmetic surgery, isolation, shame, discrimination, invalidation, and less access to vital medical care and information about their bodies. And often when they are given medical care or information, it is in such a way that highlights cultural preferences/standards for "male" and "female" and downplays the validity of a natural human body which does not conform to these cultural preferences.

Answer 3

No.
In cases of Hermaphrodites they are almost always sterile. In some very rare cases one set of reproductive organs ARE fertile, but not both.

Answer 4

exact repetition of DNA, therefore a clone.

Answer 5

Most hermaphrodites are sterile, so it couldn't happen.

Answer 6

Way to go, Orditz!! Said all I had to say, and more! Thanks for giving me some new knowledge today!!

Answer 7

wow

Answer 8

LOL really think about it.

Answer 9

i'm not sure if that would be possible.