Re: Penis: The male sex organ
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Originally Posted by eclipse2000b
Look guys... The simple fact is that transgendered people have a gender identity that does not match their physical body. For mtf that means we male genitalia and our perceptions of ourselves are female. Some of us chose to 'correct' nature's mistake (like a host of other birth defects) and others simply live as they are. It then follows that a man that sucks a penis is having homosexual contact, regadless of what it's attached to.... I know this is jarring, but this is currently the paradigm that our society operates under. It's not ideal, but that's the way it breaks down.
A man cannot be performing fellatio unless he's engaging in homosexual contact.
Well, eclipse, I guess it's back to idealism for me, then. I'll always favor the ideal over the real, while remaining aware of the real in order to help effect change towards the ideal. IF you define sexuality solely on the basis of the physical body, then one human being with a penis making love with another human being with a penis is perforce engaging in homosexual sex. However, to continue the logic, since male genitalia derives from the prenatal transmutation of genitalia due to the presence of a Y chromosome in the genetic makeup of the fetus, then by definition any human being with a Y chromosome is male, whether said human being has undergone sexual reassignment surgery or not. That's the biological fact, and it is, as such, inescapable (setting aside intersexed people such as those with Klinefetter's syndrome). To allow that a male who has had SRS is now female is to allow an exception to the biological rule based on that person's deeply rooted desire to be fully female and society's tacit acceptance of this transition based on the degree of transformation the person was willing to undergo to achieve it, coupled with the simplistic fact that the most obviously male characteristic of the person has been made to look and, to a very limited degree, behave like the most obviously female characteristic. But other male characteristics persist (based on the Y chromosome), and a great many female characteristics will never be realized.
I accept such a transformation, but many people (and societies) do not. However, I think that such a transformation can and does occur for someone who has not undergone SRS in the literal sense but who does inherently believe herself to be female in gender and lives her life fully as a female. To me, a non-op transwoman is still a woman if she sees herself that way. You will probably object, but I think this is true regardless of the type of sex she enjoys: if she likes her penis and enjoys topping men, she's still female. Since as shown above the definition of female is elastic and based in behavior rather than strictly in biology (else we must define an mtf transsexual who has undergone SRS as still being male), why is it so difficult to extend that elastic definition to include those who have not?
So yes, by the definition you give, any time two human beings with penises make love, they are engaging in homosexuality. So what? That limited definition really isn't helpful. To me, the gender definition is far more important. IF two people with penises make love and one of them is a transwoman who sees herself in all other respects as female, then to me the sex act is not homosexual. Call it bisexual if you must, or heterosexual if you will. To me the relationship is hetero (or as Felicia suggested, heteroflexible).
However, there is a difference here between the nature of the sex involved between a transwoman and a man from this perspective and that of the man trying to justify his actions regardless of her perspective. I think some men who love TS's are in denial and are either gay or bisexual and don't want to admit it even to themselves. But I also think that some men who love TS's are well aware of their own sexuality and gender id and really are not attracted to other men at all. That's a personal issue, and up to the individual to face if he wants to be honest with himself.
Me, I'm a happily omnisexual heteroflexible bisexual loving fool with a preference for beautiful T's but an attraction to women and an enjoyment of men. "Jaya Guru Deva Om: Nothing's gonna change my world."