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Reading Mike: The Annotated Bailey: Chapter 8, page 156
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8 Terese and Cher |
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had sex with several men, always involving their
penetrating her anally. Always, in these experiences she thought of herself
as a woman rather than a man. Although she remained attracted to women,
she did not manage to have sex with any. Cher insists that once Chuck became
Cher, the sexual focus was no longer a self-image, but other people. After
her sex change, she had vaginal sex with several men. Nevertheless, she
complains about her sex life, and has not had a partner lately. Many men
can tell that she is transsexual, and Cher insists on being honest about
her past prior to sexual involvement. The fact that Cher used to be Chuck
is a problem for most men. Some men are simply rude and cruel to her. Unlike
many of her friends, Cher is unwilling to engage in casual sex with men
(or women), and is waiting for someone who wants to spend time with her
and date her. When she gets sexually aroused, she still masturbates simulating
intercourse with a dildo while looking in a mirror; now the dildo penetrates
her vagina rather than her anus.
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I have never met anyone quite like Cher before.
This is in part because Cher is a character, and she would be a character
even if it were not for her unusual sex life and sex change. She is eccentric,
talkative, and exhibitionistic. (One of the most strangely hilarious experiences
I have ever witnessed was Cher lecturing to a group of gifted adolescents
about transsexualism. She began dressed as a rough-talking man and eventually
stripped down to Cher, in a bikini. I will never forget the wide open, sixteen-year-old
mouths.) Although some elements of Cher’s story are very common to
this kind of transsexual (especially the erotic cross-dressing), others
(such as the wearing of fake vaginas) are unique to her. At least I have
never met other transsexuals who admitted to this. Nevertheless, I think
that Cher is a wonderful example of the second kind of transsexualism, less
because she is representative than because she openly and floridly exemplifies
the essential feature of this type, which is autogynephilia.
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