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  • Er, no!
  • I don't think they are complicated just different..thats all..Women loose their eggs at a certain age while the male still promotes semen for children..
  • I think the female reproductive system is much more complicated than the male - the male system is only used for impregnation, the female system has to carry the child to term and deliver it. I would have thought that was self-evident.
  • They are more similar then people realize. Many of the organs (both internal and external) are just different versions of effectively the same thing. The organs that develop within the womb depend ultimately not on your sex chromosomes, but on what hormones are introduced within the fetus. Within the U.S., 2% of all births are intersexed, having external and internal features of both male and female primary and/or secondary sexual organs. More interesting is recent research investigating differences in the physical structures within the brain that result from hormones within the womb. Generally speaking, the brains of men and women are structured differently (sorry feminists, men and women aren't the same, but let me finish first). But, it's more complicated then that. The human body is not perfect, and because of the processes involved within the body, there are men (sexually at least) that have neurological structures within parts of their brain that are similar to that within women (think transgender). There are some women with features of men, but because of the way the body releases hormones in the womb this is less common than the other way around. (The fetus can be exposed to testosterone and estrogen at the same time. But, biologically once testosterone starts it doesn't stop, as far as we can tell. So how females end up with male traits isn't fully understood.) What does all this mean? Sex isn't boy/girl, man/woman, black/white, venus/mars. It's a set of traits at either end of a gradient. This brings about an understanding of male and female that is much different then popular conception. We are all people that sit at various points on the gradient, men and women aren't opposites. The thing that is truly complicated, is the real nature of sex, gender, and sexuality.
  • They are both pretty complicated and YOU are going to have to memorize to get through anatomy, Light. There is no short cut to nursing/ MD courses and some just has to be "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead". As you learn more about anatomy and the med field courses, more of what you memorized will start to come together and make sense. Just don't give up.
  • Perhaps but my interest is much more keen and without that nothing happens.
  • I don't think it's a question of which is more complicated. They're both equally complicated. The complications are different. For women (me), we bleed every month, we get PMS (beware), and we also get cramps, which is like having a kidney infection or appendicitis along with that. We have to carry and birth the children, and the women I've talked to say it's really painful. I know less about men, since I am not one and was spacing off trying to find something else to think about when it was discussed in health class, but apparently men have equally bad problems. Their sex drive (particularly in the teens and twenties) is really quite high and therefore they can get themselves into a lot of trouble in that way.

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