The Incongruity of the Shemale

One of the first rules of writing an essay, especially concerning a topic the understanding of which remains as fluid and changeable as it is controversial, is to define one's terms. I have two to define: "transsexual" and "shemale." As I employ these words in this essay, the former refers to transwomen--that is, to male-to-female transsexuals who have, as it were, gone all the way, beyond mere hormone treatments and through sex-reassignment surgery, trading their male genitalia for the female variety. They are no longer "cocks in frocks," as a crude description of their transgender status expresses their situation; rather, they are all-woman women, as feminine as they can ever hope to be who were not born as such. I use the term "shemale" to refer to individuals who are sometimes called "pre-operative transsexuals," but with this caveat; as I use the term, a "shemale" is a person who has undergone all, or most, feminizing treatments, but opts to exclude sex-reassignment surgery and retain her penis and testicles. The shemale has a beautiful, feminine appearance, both in face and in form, excluding her cock and balls. It is of the latter, the shemale, as my essay's title indicates, of whom I write.

The shemale is an incongruity, a self-contradiction, at once both male and female while, at the same time, neither male nor female. As such, one's contemplation of her takes him or her--and especially him--into uncharted waters, so to speak, particularly into the realm of homosexuality, for, whether male or female (but especially in the case of the penis-equipped male), he or she is likely to consider what it would be like to engage the shemale in intercourse, and, of course, only one means lies open to him, so to speak, by which to accomplish this act, namely, her anus. Intercourse with a shemale must, of necessity, be per anum (that is, by way of the anus), for she offers no alternative, having no vagina. Breasts there may be, and womanly buttocks there may be, but there is not, and, barring surgery (which, for shemales, by definition, we have already ruled out), there never will, nor can there ever, be, a vagina.