Today's pop singers, with their hermaphrodite looks, their taste for drugs and violence, suggest a darker era.

ECONOMIST: Frank Sinatra

It is also a hermaphrodite, fertilising itself to produce clones.

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Some figures were hermaphrodite idols, with phalluses in their foreheads.

ECONOMIST: Emile Fradin

" And I was actually put out when she called the hatchling that emerged from the egg at the end of the story "a hermaphrodite" and a "transgender baby.

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In traditional plant breeding, some inbred maize plants destined to be crossed with others have their male, pollen-producing tassels cut off to prevent self-fertilisation (maize is a horticultural hermaphrodite, carrying both male and female sex organs).

ECONOMIST: Terminator genes

Prospera has two minions at her disposal the sylph Ariel (Ben Whishaw), a translucent pale hermaphrodite who digitally skitters through the air, and the very earthbound and lustful slave Caliban (Djimon Hounsou), an African man covered with mud.

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