Shemales: An Appreciation
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Shemales: An Appreciation
By Cal Y. Pygia
Androgyne, futari, girly man, he-she, intersexed, hermaphrodite, kathoey,
ladyboy, newhalf, shemale, tranny, transgender, transsexual--there are
lots of names for chicks with dicks--maybe too many. As whenever such a
case presents itself, it is helpful--no, mandatory--that one define one's
terms. As used in this essay, "shemale" is reserved for pre-operative
transsexuals who have decided that breasts have made them womanly enough
and that they will forego sex-reassignment surgery, opting to retain
their male genitals. These divine beings, neither fully male nor fully
female, it may be argued, are the sexiest creatures in the universe. For
those who believe so, a word of explanation seems to be warranted, since
a sexual attraction to shemales which is more immediate, intense, and
enduring than sexual attraction to either of the traditional two sexes is
unusual, if increasing.
What is so attractive about chicks with dicks?
Obviously, the incongruity of a feminine appearance, facially,
physically, emotionally, and otherwise, coupled with male genitals, is
marvelous, even astonishing. Therefore, it is noticeable in a world in
which fewer and fewer persons, places, and things have presence. In a
world in which people, like objects, are more and more ignored and are
becoming, therefore, increasingly invisible, shemales definitely get
one's attention.
However, the astonishment that one feels could change to disgust as
quickly as it can transform into appreciation. In fact, it seems that
more men than not are appalled by shemales than are admiring of them. If
shemales are reckoned to represent a third sex, it is apparent that not
all men (or women) want a third sex. Many people, after all, prefer the
status quo.
Shemales suggest that men, in mimicking women, can be all that beautiful
women are characterized as being: empathetic, gentle, lovely, sensitive,
sympathetic tender, and so on. In other words, they suggest that, in
every man, there's a beautiful woman waiting to get out (or to "out"
herself). From a psychological point of view, shemales imply that a
bisexual theory of human personality is correct: there is a female
component to masculinity, just as there is a masculine dimension to
femininity. Sex and gender are not the neat polar opposites that
unsophisticated analysts of human nature and observers of human behavior
perceive and believe. There is more complexity to human existence than a
set of genitals or secondary sexual characteristics alone suggest, and,
as a rule, people tend to prefer the simple to the complex, the black or
white to the gray. Men want men to be men and women to be women, and
women want women to be women and men to be men. That way, things are
straightforward, and there is no room for confusion concerning actions,
attitudes, beliefs, feelings, personal identity, social expectations,
roles, and a thousand other areas related to individual and collective
existence and behavior. Life is hard enough when the rules are clear.
Shemales threaten the definitions, understandings, and roles that not
only regulate behavior but also allow meaning.
Why, then, the question persists, do some people (mostly men, it seems)
find shemales irresistibly attractive and preferable, even, to females?
There's more to them than meets the eye--initially, at least. They are a
"surprise," some say. They represent the "best of both worlds," others
declare. They are not women. They are apparent women. They are the sort
of "women" whom men prefer who do not want real women, who want only men
who look like women. However, these men do not want to admit that they
prefer men to women. They do not want to admit, even to themselves, that
they are homosexual, because, to them, such an admission, means that they
are less than men themselves and presents them with the emotional and
psychological quandary of both loving and rejecting their own
masculinity, of feeling ambivalent about who and what they are. When the
object of one's desire has long hair; a beautiful face; wears makeup and
feminine attire; has round, womanly buttocks; has shaved legs, and is
equipped with breasts, it is easier to accept the male genitals. One can
rationalize his attraction to the shemale by telling himself that this
beautiful, feminine creature is not a man. The shemale may also not be a
woman, either, exactly, but, just as clearly, "she" is not a man--at
least, not fully. She is a he-she, a shemale, a third sex that is both
male and female and, yet, paradoxically, at the same time, neither, male
nor female.
Despite this paradox, which would have it both ways, men want to think of
shemales as women, not as men. Therefore, such creatures are regarded as
chicks with dicks rather than as dudes with boobs.
Ultimately, shemales are denials of femininity. They cannot conceive.
They cannot bear children. They cannot become mothers or, legally, wives.
They are, at most, companions--playmates rather than helpmates--built for
fun, not family; for sex, not responsibility. Their fists, their mouths,
or their rectums are surrogate vaginas, and, if they play the manly role,
their semen cannot inseminate. Furthermore, in dating a shemale, a man
need not explore the feminine within a woman or within himself, for he is
not dating a true woman, but a substitute, a "shemale" rather than a
female. His woman is a man-made woman. As such, she is a guarantor of
sterility, and a promise against the moral and legal responsibilities
that claim a father. For an actual woman, despite proper use of the Pill,
there is always the chance, however slight, that she could become
pregnant; with a shemale, there is no chance, ever, of pregnancy;
therefore, there is no chance, ever, of fatherhood and its attendant
responsibilities. There's just the fun and adventure of sex with a look-
alike woman. The best of both worlds is not only the inclusion of both
breasts and male genitals in the same medically and technologically
revised anatomy, but it is also the denial of the biological purpose of
womanhood altogether, which is verified and confirmed again and again
every time that the penis enters the fist, mouth, or rectum instead of a
vagina and the penetrated person's own penis, whether flaccid or erect,
dangles or stands idle and superfluous.
If one rejects the biological purpose of the female, a shemale--a man
transformed into an imitation of a woman--can be fun and sexy, because
then it's only the sex that counts. Shemales are a part of America's love
affair with what has been called the "culture of death" or the "death
culture." As such, they are as sexy as the forbidden fruit that tempted
Adam in the Garden of Eden. They second-guess God or nature, as it were,
suggesting that chicks with dicks may be an equally good, if not better,
partner with whom men can establish and maintain personal, social, and
sexual relationships--one that does not and cannot involve reproduction.
As such, the pursuit of the shemale, rather than of the female, defies
the divine injunction that demands that men "be fruitful and multiply"
and the very reproductive basis itself for male-female (rather than male-
shemale) relationships.
Despite appearances to the contrary, a shemale is not a female. She is a
contradiction, an embodiment of ambivalence and ambiguity. Ostensibly an
alternative third sex that, in merging sex and gender, transcends both,
she is, as a so-called chick with a dick (and without a cunt), ultimately
a denial and a rejection of womanhood. Therein lies her mystique, her
charisma, and her attraction for those who admire her and rejoice in her
charms.