"According to Emily Martin: "The Egg and the Sperm," female sexual organs are seen as while male sexual organs are seen as ".

"According to Emily Martin: "The Egg and the Sperm," female sexual organs are seen as __while male sexual organs are seen as __ in the following way.

Explanation:

1.At a fundamental level, all major scientific textbooks depict male

and female reproductive organs as systems for the production of

valuable substances, such as eggs and sperm.

2 In the case of  women, the monthly cycle is described as being designed to  produce eggs and prepare a suitable place for them to be. fertilized

and grown-all to the end of making babies. But the enthusiasm

ends there. By extolling the female cycle as a productive enterprise,

menstruation must necessarily be viewed as a failure. Medical texts

describe menstruation as the "debris" of the uterine lining, the

result of necrosis, or death of tissue. The descriptions imply that a

system has gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap. An illustration in a widely used

medical text shows menstruation as a chaotic disintegration of form,

complementing the many texts that describe it as "ceasing," "dying', "losing," "denuding," "expelling."

3.Male reproductive physiology is evaluated quite differently. One

of the texts that sees menstruation as failed production employs a

sort of breathless prose when it describes the maturation of sperm:

"The mechanisms which guide the remarkable cellular transformation from spermatid to mature sperm remain uncertain Perhaps

the most amazing characteristic of spermatogenesis is its sheer magnitude: the normal human male may manufacture several hundred

million sperm per day."

4 In the classic text Medical Physiology, edited by Vernon Mountcastle, the male/female, productive/destructive comparison is more explicit: "Whereas the female sheds  only a single gamete each month, the seminiferous tubules produce  hundreds of millions of sperm each day" (emphasis mine).

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