From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Aug 11 2001 - 15:59:44 MDT
Zero Powers wrote:
>
> >From: Loree Thomas <loreetg@yahoo.com>
>
> >When there is a relatively fast, fully reversible
> >method of accomplishing a sex change, I think there
> >will be many people that will try it just out of
> >curiosity.
>
> Count me in. If nothing else it might help me to be more sympathetic to
> such feminine issues as PMS and being viewed as a sex object (the latter
> seems like fun to me!)
>
Being admired and even desired can be fun, depending on who is
on the other end of course. Being generally seen as sexually
attractive and desirable is something that all humans generally
want and enjoy. But being seen as first and foremost a possible
sex partner is just not fun. It is the "meat market" thing.
One feels invisible as an actual person and seen only as an
object of sexual desire. There is a big difference between
being a "sex object" and being seen as a person who is among
other things sensual and sexual.
Also, from this end of the gender spectrum, there is the
experience of being sexual prey, of being a target and possible
victim of sexual predation. It feels quite different on this
side in that respect. I don't think a lot of (more or less
gender average) guys would enjoy that aspect very much. There
is a pretty deep vulnerability in being female that we respond
to in our different ways.
- samantha
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