An Appreciation Part 2

By dispensing with the very possibilities of impregnation, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth, men, in fashioning for themselves shemales as sexual playmates, reduce such man-made women purely to the vehicles of their own pleasure (and, perhaps, domestic service). As I argue in part one of this series, divorcing females—or, rather, shemales—from procreation has proven very popular among men, because the impossibility of impregnating them relieves men of the burdens of fatherhood while, at the same time, allowing them the pleasures of sex.

Shemales, unable to bear children, offer other pleasures beyond those which they provide by the use of their anuses, rectums, mouths, penises, and hands. They are also, even more than women (who, after all, can be impregnated), vehicles by which, and upon which, men can express the superiority that they have claimed to have until a century or so ago (and often continue to claim to have, even if only to themselves). By relegating shemales to the role of being but providers of sexual pleasure (and, perhaps, domestic service), men, both symbolically (or socially) and literally (or sexually) elevate themselves to the superior status exhibited by their own power and authority in society and the relative powerlessness and submissiveness of the vanquished "other," the shemale herself.

In connection with this thought, it is interesting that, despite the shemale's retention of her male genitals, she is defined as a woman (or a man-made woman) in accordance with her possession of artificially acquired secondary sexual characteristics—essentially, besides her feminine appearance and behavior, her artificial breasts. This definition of her as female (or, at least, feminine) by her secondary sexual characteristics is not as odd, actually, as it may first seem, for, throughout history, whenever a crossing of boundaries has occurred between the powerful and the powerless, rulers have defined those whom they regard as hybrids of superiors and inferiors in terms of the inferior group's attributes.