"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.
Step-by-step 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).