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== Literature ==
== Literature ==
* ''[[Earths Children]]'': Hermaphrodites (not that they're called that) are drawn to being mamuti (medicine people) statistically moreso than average, since they're already marked as "special" by [[Mother Nature|the Great Earth Mother]]; and they're considered quite attractive by both sexes.
* ''[[Earth's Children]]'': Hermaphrodites (not that they're called that) are drawn to being mamuti (medicine people) statistically moreso than average, since they're already marked as "special" by [[Mother Nature|the Great Earth Mother]]; and they're considered quite attractive by both sexes.
* The classical Swedish novel ''The Queen's Tiara'' by Carl Jonas Love Almquist (also made into a 1970 movie with the title ''Tintomara'') is about a beautiful hermaphrodite, [[Awesome McCoolname|Azouras Lazuli Tintomara]], who becomes involved in a [[Love Dodecahedron|love pentagon]]. It ends in death or madness for all involved.
* The classical Swedish novel ''The Queen's Tiara'' by Carl Jonas Love Almquist (also made into a 1970 movie with the title ''Tintomara'') is about a beautiful hermaphrodite, [[Awesome McCoolname|Azouras Lazuli Tintomara]], who becomes involved in a [[Love Dodecahedron|love pentagon]]. It ends in death or madness for all involved.
* ''[[The Cornelius Chronicles]]'': Cornelius Brunner, {{spoiler|the bodily fusion of Jerry Cornelius and Miss Brunner and}} the proclaimed Messiah of the Age of Science, is this in spades.
* ''[[The Cornelius Chronicles]]'': Cornelius Brunner, {{spoiler|the bodily fusion of Jerry Cornelius and Miss Brunner and}} the proclaimed Messiah of the Age of Science, is this in spades.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* This is one of the "gifts" that Slaanesh can apply to its followers in ''[[Warhammer 40 K]]''.
* This is one of the "gifts" that Slaanesh can apply to its followers in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''.
** Heck, Slaanesh qualifies as well; alternately called "The Prince of Excess" and "She Who Thirsts", Slaanesh is either portrayed as half male/half female (split down the middle, his/her left side is female) or androgynous but ''stunningly'' beautiful. Kind of helps being the Chaos God of decadence, his... her... its very PRESENCE puts out a psychic/pheremone blanket of utter bliss, and you will very happily be chanting its name as it invokes all the horrors that a living embodiment of [[Squick]], [[Fetish Fuel]] and [[Sense Freak|Sense Freakness]] can give.
** Heck, Slaanesh qualifies as well; alternately called "The Prince of Excess" and "She Who Thirsts", Slaanesh is either portrayed as half male/half female (split down the middle, his/her left side is female) or androgynous but ''stunningly'' beautiful. Kind of helps being the Chaos God of decadence, his... her... its very PRESENCE puts out a psychic/pheremone blanket of utter bliss, and you will very happily be chanting its name as it invokes all the horrors that a living embodiment of [[Squick]], [[Fetish Fuel]] and [[Sense Freak|Sense Freakness]] can give.
** Unfortunately Matt Ward has [[Jossed]] this more recently, making her male from the waist down, female from the waist up, and having a horrible crab-thing for a head.
** Unfortunately Matt Ward has [[Jossed]] this more recently, making her male from the waist down, female from the waist up, and having a horrible crab-thing for a head.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
== [[Video Games]] ==
* {{spoiler|Yasu (aka Shannon, Kanon, ''and'' Beatrice)}} from ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]'' manages to spark a romance with three of the Ushiromiyas, two male and one female.
* {{spoiler|Yasu (aka Shannon, Kanon, ''and'' Beatrice)}} from ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' manages to spark a romance with three of the Ushiromiyas, two male and one female.


== [[Web Original]] ==
== [[Web Original]] ==