Futanari: Difference between revisions

{{Shortshort description|Japanese word and pornographic genre}}

{{nihongo|'''''Futanari'''''|ふたなり||seldom: {{lang|ja|二形}}, {{lang|ja|双形}}, literally: ''dual form''; {{lang|ja|二成}}, {{lang|ja|双成}}, literally: "[to be of] two kinds"}} is the [[Japanese language|Japanese]] word for [[hermaphrodite|hermaphroditism]], which is also used in a broader sense for [[androgyny]].<ref name="Leupp">{{cite book |last1last=Leupp |first1first=Gary P. |title=Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan|date=1995|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley, California|isbn=9780520919198|page=174|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a6q-PqPDAmIC&q=futanari&pg=PA174 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley, CA |date=1995 |page=174 |access-date=11 March 2016 |languageisbn=en9780520919198}}</ref><ref name="krauss">{{in lang|de}} Krauss, Friedrich Salomo et al. ''Japanisches Geschlechtsleben: Abhandlungen und Erhebungen über das Geschlechtsleben des japanischen Volkes ; folkloristische Studien'', Schustek, 1965</ref>{{rp|79, 81}}

Beyond Japan, the term has come to be used to describe a [[Hentai|commonly pornographic genre]] of [[eroge]], [[manga]], and [[anime]], which includes characters that show primary sexual characteristics from both [[female]]s and [[male]]s.<ref name="Leupp"/> In today's language, it refers almost exclusively to characters who have a female or overall feminine body, but have both female and male primary genitalia (although a [[scrotum]] is not always present, while [[breasts]], a [[Human penis|penis]], and a [[vulva]] are). The term is also often abbreviated as '''''futa'''''(s)'', which is also used as a generalized term for the works themselves.<ref name="krauss"/>