Do identical twins have identical genitalia?

I know this is a zombie thread, but I’ll answer that anyway. Apparently their parents overestimated how big a problem not being able to tell them apart would be. I don’t know exactly when they stopped needing to check their penises, but by the time I met them (1st grade) their parents didn’t have any problem telling them apart fully clothed. They did pull the occasionaly switchero up tru high school, always fooled the teachers, but not most of their classmates.

Some anectodal evidence. My sisters are identical twins. One sister has a tiny bump on the top of her left ear, like a tiny little elf-nubbin. The other sister does not.

So, despite their identical genomes, their ears are not identical.

You can draw your own conclusions about other parts of their anatomy.

Some of us, ahem, read Playboy for the articles. :smiley:

I seem to remember them being asked something along this line, maybe it wasn’t in the magazine but on Howard Stern, but they responded that they had never really compared their hey-nani-nanis to each others’ before, but now they said they felt they did resemble each others.

Boy, talk about a first world issue…

How they doin’? :wink:

Actually, I suspect that there’s plenty of Third World folk who would be happy to engage in field research on this issue.

They at least managed to fool everyone until gym class was over, right?

Snort

I clicked on this thread just to see the snark…

perhaps a bad choice of words

Have you ever heard of Capgras (sp?) syndrome?

She doesn’t fit the characteristics of Capgras Syndrome. People with Capgras KNOW that the people in their lives LOOK IDENTICAL, but are convinced they are different people. She is saying that her husband (and his penis) look and act different.