{"id":29987,"date":"2015-09-27T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/?p=29987"},"modified":"2015-09-25T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T23:14:07","slug":"some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Boys in the Dominican Republic Don’t Grow Dicks Until Puberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"genitaliafruit\"<\/a>A new BBC series called Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You<\/a> explores a strange phenomenon in the Dominican Republic where boys who were thought to be girls suddenly grow penises at puberty. These seemingly sex-swapping group of people are called \u201cguevedoces,\u201d or \u201cpenis at twelve.\u201d Because they do not have obvious male genitalia at birth, they are raised as girls until around the age of twelve when it becomes abundantly clear that they are in fact boys.<\/p>\n

The condition is the result of an enzyme deficiency<\/a>, so even though guevedoces have Y chromosomes and testosterone, they aren’t able to make the chemical that causes the penis and scrotum to emerge. Their genitalia stay tucked inside the abdomen, which is why the boys appear to look female despite having internal reproductive systems that are male. It isn’t until puberty when the testes inside their abdomens start producing large amounts of testosterone that they grow penises and take on male characteristics, like facial hair, a deeper voice, and a male physique. While the change is abrupt and startling for both the boys and their families, most often they quickly adjust to their new bodies. Sexual development is amazing!<\/p>\n

Come celebrate the miracles of the human body with us<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Gizmodo<\/a><\/em> has more about guevedoces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new BBC series called Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You explores a strange phenomenon in the Dominican Republic where boys who were thought to be girls suddenly grow penises at puberty. These seemingly sex-swapping group of people are called \u201cguevedoces,\u201d or \u201cpenis at twelve.\u201d Because they do not have obvious male genitalia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9632,1431,9633,9636,9634,9635,1471],"class_list":["post-29987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","tag-bbc-series","tag-boys","tag-dominican-republic","tag-genitalia","tag-girls","tag-guevedoces","tag-penis"],"yoast_head":"\nSome Boys in the Dominican Republic Don't Grow Dicks Until Puberty - NiteFlirt News | Flirty Tips, Steamy Stories & Chat Secrets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Some Boys in the Dominican Republic Don't Grow Dicks Until Puberty - NiteFlirt News | Flirty Tips, Steamy Stories & Chat Secrets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new BBC series called Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You explores a strange phenomenon in the Dominican Republic where boys who were thought to be girls suddenly grow penises at puberty. These seemingly sex-swapping group of people are called \u201cguevedoces,\u201d or \u201cpenis at twelve.\u201d Because they do not have obvious male genitalia […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NiteFlirt News | Flirty Tips, Steamy Stories & Chat Secrets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-09-27T15:30:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/genitaliafruit.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"NiteFlirt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@niteflirt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@niteflirt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"NiteFlirt\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"NiteFlirt\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/509f1893fd23ba2833c2dab22882cddc\"},\"headline\":\"Some Boys in the Dominican Republic Don’t Grow Dicks Until Puberty\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-09-27T15:30:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":227,\"commentCount\":1,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/09\\\/genitaliafruit.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"BBC Series\",\"boys\",\"Dominican Republic\",\"Genitalia\",\"Girls\",\"Guevedoces\",\"penis\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Insights\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\\\/\",\"name\":\"Some Boys in the Dominican Republic Don't Grow Dicks Until Puberty - NiteFlirt News | Flirty Tips, Steamy Stories & Chat Secrets\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/09\\\/genitaliafruit.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-09-27T15:30:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/509f1893fd23ba2833c2dab22882cddc\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/09\\\/genitaliafruit.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/09\\\/genitaliafruit.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Some Boys in the Dominican Republic Don’t Grow Dicks Until Puberty\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"NiteFlirt Blog\",\"description\":\"NiteFlirt -- Speak to your Desire. \u00ae\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/509f1893fd23ba2833c2dab22882cddc\",\"name\":\"NiteFlirt\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.niteflirt.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/jenn\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Some Boys in the Dominican Republic Don't Grow Dicks Until Puberty - NiteFlirt News | Flirty Tips, Steamy Stories & Chat Secrets","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Some Boys in the Dominican Republic Don't Grow Dicks Until Puberty - NiteFlirt News | Flirty Tips, Steamy Stories & Chat Secrets","og_description":"A new BBC series called Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You explores a strange phenomenon in the Dominican Republic where boys who were thought to be girls suddenly grow penises at puberty. These seemingly sex-swapping group of people are called \u201cguevedoces,\u201d or \u201cpenis at twelve.\u201d Because they do not have obvious male genitalia […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/","og_site_name":"NiteFlirt News | Flirty Tips, Steamy Stories & Chat Secrets","article_published_time":"2015-09-27T15:30:40+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/genitaliafruit.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"NiteFlirt","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@niteflirt","twitter_site":"@niteflirt","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"NiteFlirt","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/"},"author":{"name":"NiteFlirt","@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/509f1893fd23ba2833c2dab22882cddc"},"headline":"Some Boys in the Dominican Republic Don’t Grow Dicks Until Puberty","datePublished":"2015-09-27T15:30:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/"},"wordCount":227,"commentCount":1,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/genitaliafruit.jpg","keywords":["BBC Series","boys","Dominican Republic","Genitalia","Girls","Guevedoces","penis"],"articleSection":["Insights"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/","url":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/","name":"Some Boys in the Dominican Republic Don't Grow Dicks Until Puberty - NiteFlirt News | Flirty Tips, Steamy Stories & Chat Secrets","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/genitaliafruit.jpg","datePublished":"2015-09-27T15:30:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/509f1893fd23ba2833c2dab22882cddc"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/genitaliafruit.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/genitaliafruit.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/some-boys-in-the-dominican-republic-dont-grow-dicks-until-puberty\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Some Boys in the Dominican Republic Don’t Grow Dicks Until Puberty"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/","name":"NiteFlirt Blog","description":"NiteFlirt -- Speak to your Desire. \u00ae","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/509f1893fd23ba2833c2dab22882cddc","name":"NiteFlirt","url":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/author\/jenn\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30001,"href":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987\/revisions\/30001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}