The Greatest Lie Part 13

AlleninaW: yup.

Virtual_xx: so u agree it's a 1st amendment thing, the right to sexual self expression.

AlleninaW: I don't believe in censorship. whatever can be imagined, should be depicted, my artistic opinion

Virtual_xx: if sex for pay is illegal, how can you legally pay people to have sex on camera

AlleninaW: performers get paid for performing not for sex intercourse, for modeling, not for sex intercourse

Virtual_xx: same for escorting?

AlleninaW: it's legal to escort, i get paid for my time not my service.

Virtual_xx: I have a law professor u should meet.

AlleninaW: law is dull Gotta go now. Later.

Of course she was right-Allenina agreed with the great Professor Epstein, my legal mentor, and he had never been wrong. And I accepted their reasoning:, too: I intended to make my body and soul into a work of pornographic performance art. I would sacrifice my body to the world of heartless male domination and emerge triumphant, a perfect woman, idolized by all as an embodiment of sexual perfection. It was my right and my duty to my transsexual sisters who came before me and who would follow in increasing multitudes after me. Tran and I would become role models by using the system to rise above its own oppression, I thought grandiloquently.

Turning my thoughts to earth, I asked my friend and partner in crime, "Tran, does your mom have any videos of you as a little kid?"

"Are you kidding? We were poor when I was little. Any extra we had went into the collection plate at church, and that never amounted to much."

"How about more pictures?"

"You got them all. Why do you want them?"

I flipped through the scanty stack of Sears portraits and school pictures, and the more numerous-and revealing-shots intended for the personal ads Tran had run in the local alternative papers . She had been a slender, beautiful boy who photographed well, but I had more pictures from any one birthday than Tran had for her whole life.