Vulgar words in Taboo and Genetics - A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family (Page 1)
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The bodily peculiarities of each sex, as distinguished from the sex-glands or gonads themselves, are known as _secondary_ sex characters.
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This is a very great departure from birds, rats and guinea pigs, whose bodies change over their sex type when the gonads are transplanted.
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For example, Paton says[9]: "The evidence thus seems conclusive that in the male the gonad, by producing an internal secretion, exercises a direct and specific influence upon the whole soma, increasing the activity of growth, moulding the whole course of development, and so modifying the metabolism of nerve and muscle that the whole character of the animal is altered."