Working Girls of Place Blanche

[sukumvit boy]

I certainly don't miss the old codes.
Our present day access to information and discussion , like this forum , has got to be healthier for everybody.
I guess what I miss is my lost innocence , and the sense of taboo and mystery , for ,as you say ,"what is there and has been there all along".
As to the question of abuse , I can't say offhand ,but a search of the psychological literature might turn up something.

[BBaggins06]

It is a difficult area in which to engage a discussion, but I did read a feminist critique of transexuality -it is on the web but I lost the link some time ago and can't find it again- in which it was argued that aside from those whose gender status is of biological origin, most transexuals have been victims of child abuse and it was this trauma which led the person to seek a change in their sexual identity. Controversial and probably impossible to prove.

There are a lot of radical feminists who are virulently transphobic Stavros. That sounds like something from their playbook.

[Stavros]

Sadly true Bbaggins. I did try to find the article I had read but no luck so far. I remember going to see Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt at the ICA cinema in London, must be early 80s and there was a German woman who at the end of the film shouted Scheiss! and seemed rather upset by the whole thing. Perhaps she thought it was a film about women revolutionaries, perhaps in its own satirical way, the film is just that...