ABSTRACT
The most revolutionary aspect of the concept of sex hormones is the idea that sex is not restricted to the world of living organisms. Since the early decades of the twentieth century even chemicals have had a sex of their own. In their journals and textbooks scientists discuss male sex hormones, female sex hormones and heterosexual hormones as a reality that simply exists in nature. I became really intrigued by this image of sex hormones. Even today the naturalistic reality of sex hormones is often taken for granted, as is exemplified in Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae:
Lust and aggression are fused in male hormones. Anyone who doubts this has probably never spent much tune around horses.
