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The word unisex has been popularly adopted to describe the recent phenomenon of sexual togetherness — a drawing together of male and female so that the two sexes seem more alike, with many of their most traditional, superficial distinctions deliberately blurred or even erased.
Actually, the term is misleading. According to the dictionary, the word unisexual means: (1) of or pertaining to one sex only and (2) having only male or female organs in one individual, as an animal or a flower.
In other words, unisexual refers to either male or female, as opposed to hermaphroditic. Unisex, therefore, like many flip, media-inspired terms, does not really mean what it says.
The word androgyny is defined as having characteristics of both sexes. Because it includes both male and female, this would be the more apt term. It comes from the Greek: a combination of andro (“male”) and gyn (“female”), conveying the message