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Strange Carribean Village Where Girls Develop Penis

Yesterday The small village of Salinas in the Barahona province of the southwestern part of the Dominican Republic is like many other Caribbean getaway spot, but there is something very spectacular that sets it apart from all the rest. Salinas, which is located near Barahona, is the home to pristine beaches not yet sullied by the outside world, but it is not this fact that makes it differ from others. What makes it peculiar are stories about children nicknamed “guevedoces”. There are two tales which are most predominant at this village. One tells of how some of the people there were born with a rare condition that made their feet look like lobster feet. And the other tale is of how a number of children were presumably born as girls and later turned into boys once they hit puberty. The girls were called guevedoces, or “penis at 12”. Statistics show that at puberty one in 90 children born there make a natural transformation from female to male. According to medical t