Practical Classification

性-人類性的基本層面
Sex - Basic Aspects of Human Sexuality

性特徵的應用分類

為了日常生活中方便運用，我們可以將性特徵區分為三類：

1. 初級性徵，既外部性器官。性器官在出生的時候就已經呈現，借此，使我們確定一個孩子是男孩還是女孩成為可能。

2. 次級性徵，既性的身體方面的特徵。這些特徵在青春期得到發育，而且進一步強化了男性與女性之間的解剖學方面的差異。

3. 第三級性徵，既性的社會心理與心理品質特徵。這些特徵是作為一個性別成員和不作為另一個性別成員在被養育中形成的（例如：女人的迷人和可愛，男人的好鬥等品質）。

初級性徵和次級性徵由生物因素來決定，它們造就了男人和女人。第三級性徵由文化因素來決定，它創造了男人的陽剛或女人的陰柔。

初級和次級性徵涉及到人是男人還是女人（既：一個性別或另一個性別的身體本質特徵）；第三級性徵涉及一個人的女性特質或男性特質（既：一個性別或另一個性別的社會心理本質特徵）。初級和次級性徵由生物因素所決定；第三級性徵也有生物因素的基礎，但更多地由人文因素所決定。

A Practical Classification of Sexual Characteristics

For the practical purposes of everyday life, one can distinguish between three kinds of sexual characteristics:

1. The primary sexual characteristics are the external sex organs. They are already present at birth and thus make it possible to determine whether a newborn child is a boy or a girl.

2. The secondary sexual characteristics are those physical features that develop during puberty and which further accentuate the anatomical difference between males and females.

3. The tertiary sexual characteristics are those psychological and social qualities that are nurtured in one sex and discouraged in the other (e.g. charm and sweetness in women, fighting spirit in men).

The primary and secondary sexual characteristics are biologically determined, and they constitute a person's maleness or femaleness. The tertiary sexual characteristics are culturally determined, and they constitute a person's masculinity or femininity.

The primary and secondary sexual characteristics refer to a person's femaleness or maleness (i.e. the physical character typical of one or the other sex); the tertiary characteristics refer to the person's femininity or masculinity (i.e. the psycho-social character typical of one or the other sex). The primary and secondary characteristics are biologically determined; the tertiary characteristics also have a bioligical basis, but are largely determined by cultural factors.


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