Transvestia

inine unity, and a homosexual is a male who finds extra pleasure and satisfaction in the sexual aspect of the unity...that is as a receiver under some con- ditions. One can't make precise rules concerning homosexual behaviour, much as the general folklore would lead one to believe. Certainly the drag queen represents only a small percentage of the homophile community so that the pseudo gender role of the queen is not representative nor, for that matter, is it genuine. By and large the drag queen, regardless of how beautifully he may makeup or how gorgeous his dress, does not feel feminine nor project it as far as personality goes. So that for all the appearance the queen is not really portraying the gender. How- ever, he does wish to serve other males and usually does so in the recipient role.

Thus we have the TV male borrowing the feminine gender role and attributes and leaving behind the sexual, i.e. the female receptivity; and the homo- sexual adopting the female sexuality and leaving be- hind true feminine gender qualities (swishiness in a male is not femininity but effeminacy, quite a diff- erent thing). The TS on the other hand borrows them both at the same time. So much for my position on the three patterns. Others do not agree with this I am quite aware. It will be obvious from my defini- tion of a true TS that one who has married, and fath- ered a child is practically excluded. This is be- cause the ability to father a child has proven 1) that he was aroused by a female to the point of erection and 2) that he was able to maintain it well enough to achieve intravaginal orgasm. In other words all of his neurological circuits involving sexual "instincts" and attraction to the female were functional so that he could not be said to be in- adequate and ineffective as a male.

The reply to this by various competant author- ities is that such persons say that they were able to accomplish the act by "imagining" that they were the female and that the woman was a man. Sorry, no

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