Posted by Quintal on March 19, 2007, at 21:59:38 [reposted on March 24, 2007, at 22:46:37 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Where did this post go off on such a tangent? » Quintal, posted by Phillipa on March 19, 2007, at 21:16:38
>But seriously don't you see something wrong with this?
Well yes and no. I don't see it as any greater problem than homosexuality (in fact it wouldn't surprise me to find something similar going on in the subterranean layers of most gay men's psyche - I believe that's where the term 'Psychosexual Hermaphroditism' originated from, but since homosexuality is no longer pathological we don't usually go digging there in therapy anymore).
I'm not confused about my gender, rather I think I've peeled a whole layer of psychic flesh away and caught a glimpse of the inner workings. Just thinking outside the box as Declan suggested. I have no problem with being in a male-male relationship. It's just seeing a photo of that intersexed person made me realize I'd probably be happiest (in theory) as a hermaphrodite, so I could both penetrate and be penetrated as I desired. I wouldn't be any happier as a female because my male part of my psyche would probably start longing for a male body to act out its fantasies, though I'm slightly effemme in a male body I'd seem a little too butch in a female body and neither would be wholly satisfying. So I reckon the term psychosexual hermaphrodite fits the bill. An affinity for both sexes but not bisexual. As I've said before, I'm very comfortable with this. I wouldn't want to be any other way because it's allowed me to see the world from perspectives I might never have been able to see otherwise.
I thought it might make an interesting discussion and so it has.
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