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| | Hermaphrodite (Getty Museum) |
 | | Seated on a cylindrical object, she opens her garment, and by doing so, her bisexuality is revealed: she has breasts and a penis. |
 | | According to the version of the legend prevalent in the Roman era, the first hermaphrodite was the Hermaphroditus, who, as his name implies, was the son of the messenger-god Hermes and the love-goddess Aphrodite. |
 | | Hermaphroditus's ill-fated encounter with the nymph Salmacis, who observed him bathing in her spring, led to his transformation into a dual-gender being, and prompted him to wish that all men who bathed in that spring should suffer a similar fate. |
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