Disability is not Inability

Impotent/ Impotence: see Erectile Dysfunction

Incest: see Abuse
Incest is sex between family members (brother and sister, mother and son, uncle and nephew, stepmom and stepdaughter, etc.)

Infertile/ Infertility

The inability to conceive a child. A man's sperm count can be too low, or his sperm not healthy, OR a woman can have too few eggs or unhealthy eggs to get pregnant. A woman can also have a uterus that is unable to handle a pregnancy, or the path (fallopian tubes) from where her eggs come from is blocked and the egg cannot meet up with the sperm. There are some medications, procedures, and surgeries that might help an infertile couple to get pregnant.

Intersexed / Intersexual: see Transgendered

A person who has some of the genitals (penis/vulva) of both a man and woman, sometimes called ambiguous or atypical genitalia. Someone who is intersexed may be able to function sexually as either a male or a female, or as neither, rarely both. Replaces the word hermaphrodite, which mostly only doctors use now.
Intersex Society of North America
Bodies like Ours
Susan's GLBIT page
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
Klinefelter Syndrome Support Groups Home Page
Turner Syndrome Society
Hyposadias
Vaginal Agenesis

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