What is the common gender?

noun. in English, a noun that is the same whether it is referring to either gender, such as cat, people, spouse. in some languages, such as Latin, a noun that may be masculine or feminine, but not neuter.

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Why do we have two sexes?

Those species that exhibit sexual reproduction have an evolutionary advantage over "cloners" in that there is more diversity in their offspring. This diversity allows the species to adapt more quickly to a changing environment, or to increase its chance of survival in the existing one. Can a person be born a eunuch? As per estimates, only one in a lakh is born a eunuch. Indira, general secretary of the Hijra Kalyan Sabha and victim of a kidnapping, hit out at eunuch gurus. "These gurus have become millionaires by making eunuchs service homosexuals," says Indira, formerly known as Rajendra, who was castrated.

Then, why do eunuchs clap?

"Eunuchs come for showering their blessings at the time of weddings and child birth... We have heard and read that they always keep clapping. Clapping is a therapy like acupuncture. If anyone claps at a 'kirtan bhajan', then that also helps," he said. Do eunuchs still exist today? In reality, there are more castrated men alive today that at any other point in history. As many as 600,000 men in North America are living as eunuchs for medical reasons. The vast majority are afflicted with prostate cancer. "A castrated adult male will lose muscle but gain fat.