Re: Terminator - Cameron's vagina and genital area

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:42:23 -0400, "Steven L."
<sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Richard Evans wrote:
>> Lucifer Sam <invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>>> Bets on it being anything more than a cosmetic surface feature?
>> 
>> It would probably have to be good enough to fool a doctor for a school
>> physical or phys ed classmates in the showers.
>
>The vagina need not be any more than a cosmetic surface feature for even 
>a doctor to accept it as an acceptable anatomical variant.
>
>Here's why:
>There really are women who have a condition called "Androgen 
>Insensitivity Syndrome" (AIS).  They are actually *genetically male* (XY 
>chromosomes) but developed externally as female.  Their vaginas are 
>typically quite short, and end in a dead end--no cervix nor uterus nor 
>ovaries inside there (so these women don't menstruate).  They used to be 
>called "pseudo-hermaphrodites," but that term has fallen into disuse 
>recently.
>
>So if the Terminator tells the doctor a lie that she's 
>androgen-insensitive, a pseudo-hermaphrodite, he'll know that such women 
>are not anatomically correct completely anyway.  And that they aren't 
>expected to menstruate like normal women.
>
>NOTE:  For years, there have been rumors that the actress Jamie Lee 
>Curtis is a pseudo-hermaphrodite with AIS, and Marlene Dietrich before 
>her had AIS.  So AIS is not unheard of.
>
>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/jamieleecurtis/a/jamieleecurtis.htm

The story I heard was that her parents named her 'Jamie Lee' because
the doctors couldn't tell whether she was a boy or a girl when she was
born and they couldn't decide what *** to raise her as.