The female-impersonators: $b A sequel to the autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld; together with the life stories of androgyne associates and an outline of his subsequently acquired knowledge of kindred phenomena of human character and psychologyWerther, Ralph
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The female-impersonators: $b A sequel to the autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld; together with the life stories of androgyne associates and an outline of his subsequently acquired knowledge of kindred phenomena of human character and psychology
Werther, Ralph
Cross-dressing -- United States -- History; Gay men -- United States -- Biography; Transgender people -- United States -- Biography; Werther, Ralph, 1874-
The sexual life of the latter flows on gently and smoothly. It is called
humdrum by the tremendously virile, continuously wafted up and down in a
dizzy fashion in the rapids at the center of the masculine river. But
what the mildly virile miss of the “pep” of life is more than
compensated by the blissful peace that characterizes their earthly
journey.
Their abhorrence of androgynism is many times as intense as in the case
of the more virile. While not a single mildly virile man would ever
succumb to [Sidenote: _Anaphrodites._] androgyne allurements, I have
ascertained through many years’ association with thousands of
tremendously or ultra-virile that at least seventy-five per cent readily
suffer capture providing their sexual needs are not already abundantly
gratified. The chief reason for the bitter antagonism of the mildly
virile is that they know androgynism only by hearsay. They have not,
like the more virile—to whom alone androgynes gravitate—been
eye-witnesses of the entirely innocent, innocuous, and even pitiable
sexuality of these pseudo-men.
The mildly virile, constituting the vast majority of all males in
“Christian” countries, seek to impose the dictates of their own sexual
natures upon all men whatsoever. The sexual mandates of “Christian”
society and of the New Testament express the sex feelings in part of the
mildly virile, and in part of the anaphrodites. Whatever harmonizes with
these feelings is right; whatever fails to, is “bestial.”
The mildly virile are inclined toward the less strenuous occupations, as
agriculture, manufacturing, and trade. They also include ninety-five per
cent of intellectuals.
(4) The cold ANAPHRODITES are the particles that cling immovably to the
banks of the masculine river.[4] They neither progress nor regress. They
number about one-half of one per cent of all adult males. Like the
ultra-androgynes, they have a horror of women from the sex point of
view. But unlike the [Sidenote: _St. Paul’s Sex Teachings._] former,
their minds are devoid of hero-worship and they shudder violently at the
very thought of _any kind_ of association grounded on sex differences.
Their anaphroditism is either an after-effect of an illness in childhood
or congenital.
For the most part, anaphrodites are intellectuals. The exquisite joys
associated with courtship and marriage that they are predestined never
to know are more than compensated by Providence in the way of extra
allotment of intellectual enjoyment. Herbert Spencer is the shining
example of anaphroditism of the nineteenth century.[5]
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