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both sets of genitalia and so gender becomes rather muddled. This is true even though this is a society entrenched in gender. A student writing on the subject may want  to point out that males and females are clearly defined by fashion, by roles, by sexuality and so forth. Yet, the author notes that there is such a thing as  "the intersexual body" (1993, p.21). One estimate quoted by the author puts the confusion regarding sexual organs at birth, at 4% (1993, p.21). The author goes on to explain the  origin of the word hermaphrodite and goes into Greek mythology (Fausto-Sterling, 1993). The author then goes on to talk about the subject, and speaks of additional sexes. Might there be  room for a third sex, one that contains both genders? That is what the author seems to be proposing. If society can embrace more than two sexes, then such people  will have to assimilate. Laws cannot be made gender specific. A student writing on this subject can imagine the possibilities if there were three or four or five, instead of  two, recognizable genders. The author points out that this concept is a reality. People are born with genitalia that would render their gender suspect, or at least something that does  not fit neatly into the male/female paradigm. This author expresses a view on society by using scientific research, but Edward Gilbreath explores gender in a different way. Gilbreath (1995) explores  the Promise Keepers program. This is the program that many religious Christian men have found to be helpful in their marriages and so forth, but it is a controversial program  because it does go by biblical text, which is quite patriarchal in nature. The author explains the context of the prayer meetings. Most people are familiar with the group that