RANSVESTIA

A Man Will Sure

Become A Miss

If He Can Both His

Elbows Kiss

Barbara

Madden

For many centuries, more than two millenia documented, a two line couplet, prophetic in it's portent and potent it it's realiza- tion, has been mocked, feared, misunderstood and yet practiced by people of various nationalities. That it has been and is being practiced in some European countries is documented; that it is practiced in Oriental or African countries is moot. One interpre- tation of the verse is:

A man will sure become a miss, If he can both his elbows kiss.

According to Philemon, in his Life and Times of Tiberius Caesar, upon hearing this story Caesar said, "Very well, break both their arms above the elbows, have them kiss their elbows and then you report the results to me. I want to see if the sex change this old superstition prophesies will actually occur!"

It would be of certain interest to know how this experiment of Tiberius Caesar concluded. Unfortunately, no further reference to it has been brought to light. It is singular to note that this

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