Types of hermaphroditism.
'An organism that has both male and female sex organs.
Hermaphroditism is the norm in such species as earthworms and snails, and is common in flowering plants. Cross-fertilization is common among hermaphrodites, with the parents functioning as male and female simultaneously, or as one or the other sex at different stages in their development.
Human hermaphrodites are extremely rare but do occur'
Sometimes a good nonmedical description is required. Perhaps the best is that in Henry Spender Ashbee's "Catena Librorum Tacendorum". The "woman,' was fairly attractive. Ashbee said - "She was about twenty years of age, rather pretty, and quite womanly, with beautiful eyes, a good complexion, and fair hair; her nose was rather masculine and her mouth rather rough and large, with bad teeth; her chest was expansive, and her breasts well developed; the lower part of the legs slightly bowed, and masculine. She possessed, m appearance at least, the organs of both sexes, but neither perfect, a small penis, as in a lad of twelve or fourteen years, and testicles however, not perforated. Underneath the testicles was what seemed to be a perfect female vestibule, of which the opening was, however, only large enough to allow her to pass water, but not to receive a man, or even to admit the insertion of the end of a quill... she had no monthly flow, but felt, nevertheless, a periodic indisposition; she experienced pleasures in the embraces of both sexes, and had even an erection when with a sympathetic female. She could not, of course, satisfy her desires.