aphrodi-, -aphrodisia, -aphrodisiac, -aphroditic +
(Greek: Greek goddess of love; originally from afros, "foam", because Aphrodite was thought to have been born from the foam of the sea)
hypaphrodisia
1. Absent or inadequate sexual desire or sexual excitement in either sex.
2. Sexual frigidity; a female psychosexual dysfunction that may reflect inhibited sexual desire, restrained sexual excitement, or suppressed orgasm; or any combination of these.
pseudohermaphrodite, pseudohermaphroditic
1. Someone who has external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about the gender of the individual at birth.
2. Having internal reproductive organs of one sex and external sexual characteristics of the other sex.
pseudohermaphroditism
A condition in which the gonads are of one sex but one or more contradictions exist in the morphologic criteria of sex.
Female pseudohermaphroditism is a form in which the affected individual is a genetic and gonadal female with partial masculinization.
Male pseudohermaphroditism is a form in which the affected individual is a genetic and gonadal male; however, with incomplete masculinization.
Related "sex, sexism, sexual lust, sexual deviation" word units:
-cest;
eroto-;
lagneuo-;
-lagnia;
masochism;
porno-;
Sadism-;
satyr-;
sex-;
sodom-;
whore.
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