| 单词 | the third sex |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe third sex b. In extended use, esp. as the third sex. A (notional) third division of humanity regarded as analogous to, or as falling between, the male and female sexes; spec. that consisting of: (a) eunuchs or transsexuals; †(b) humorously clergymen (obsolete); (c) homosexual people collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > castration > person > collectively the third sex1821 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto V xxvi. 148 A black old neutral personage Of the third sex stept up. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV lxxxvi. 114 From all the pope makes yearly 't would perplex To find three perfect pipes of the third sex. 1873 Ld. Houghton Monogr. 280 Sydney Smith..often spoke with much bitterness of the growing belief in three Sexes of Humanity—Men, Women, and Clergymen. 1896 J. A. Symonds Probl. in Mod. Ethics (new ed.) vi. 78 Burton..was led to surmise a crasis of the two sexes in persons subject to sexual inversion. Thus he came to speak of ‘the third sex’. 1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers II. xviii. 230 A very considerable measure of latent or unconscious homosexuality can be detected in all normal people. If these findings are taken into account, then..the supposition that nature in a freakish mood created a ‘third sex’ falls to the ground. 1977 C. Isherwood Christopher & his Kind ii. 20 Hirschfield..was..as a leading expert on homosexuality. Thousands of members of The Third Sex, as he called it, looked up to him as their champion. 2005 N.Y. Mag. 21 Nov. 77 He..tracks down..the ‘third sex’ hijras of India, the ‘lady-boy’ kathoey of Thailand, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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