Sex Change

The issue of sex (besides being a discipline obsession) is reasonably interesting from a psycoanalytic and existential perspective. A lot of what drives us is sexual energy (in line with what Freud told us). This so-called energy isnt explicit, exactly if you delay to think close to questions standardised Why am I hither? the I refers to you as a being and your sexuality is intimately laced with that. That I differs quite radically based on whether you are potent or egg-producing(prenominal). From a purely reductionist perspective, we are simply ugly bags of mostly water (to use a phrase from Star Trek) for our genes.The important reason we wealthy person sex is so our genes butt last. The reason that theres sexual dimorphism (as opposed to having only females reproducing asexually) is so the gene pool can be enriched and it is thus capable of withstanding sudden changes in environment. This is actually the reason wherefore there is sex in the first place, but having d imorphism means having a gene pool (thereby phenotype) thats more varied. The sociological perspective is somewhat interesting, but I think its very irrelevant. In the end, the psychological (perhaps biological) dominates and therefore it it is the adept I will consider.I ware always wondered what it would be identical to be female. I have wondered what it feels like to experience the menstrual bike each month, to give birth, etc. My perception of what I consitutes would be radically different, I assume, notwithstanding the sociological consequences of nice female. Human males and females are lovely different in their genetic makeup, given that an entire chromosome present in males is not present in females (and this doesnt even address the issue of expression). This brings us to the interesting fact that a lot of textbooks quote chimpanzees and humans have DNA which is more than 99% identical.I wonder what the basis of their proportion is, but I digress A few decades ago, th e above air of thinking wouldve been mere speculation. Existentially speaking, we are prisoners of our bodies and this sucks. But we humans, being the creatures with superior intellect (yeah, right), have taken control of our environments and now it is possible to reasonably attend to some of the questions I ask above in a sensible sense. I read an article (parts of which are reproduced here without permission) about this associate who underwent a sex-change operation to be female because he wanted to be a lesbian.He was considered a womaniser, but he really place with girls and expressed his sexuality by cross-dressing, etc. But after a while he began the process of change. He took females hormonesthe most effective hold out being premarin, derived from the urine of a pregnant mare-to produce breasts, greater sub-surface fat, diminished muscle mass and less skin oil than a man normallly secretes. However, hormone treatments cannot shrink the Adams apple, alter the hips, or r aise the component part male vocal chords are irreversibly developed by adolescence. He also underwent a lot of sartorial changes as soundly.Finally the irreversible operation known as neo-colporrhaphy, or new vagina, was performed on him. distant to popular myth, this two-and-a-half-hour surgery does not involve the penis being excuse off. It is instead emptied of its spongy tissue and, like the finger of a meritless glove, turned inside out. The skin of the penis is gently pushed into a pit formed by separating the lower abdominal muscle fibres, and this inside-out institution becomes the vaginal lining. The scrotum is used to create the frontal lips of the vagina some of the skin at the base of the inverted penis can be surgically engraved to look like a clitoris.Enough of the urethra is preserved from the penis to dig it under the tissue and place it in the female position. (There was a intelligent discussion during the Beer Social here regarding the logistics of such an operationin item the issue of providing lubrication was thought important. ) According to John Money, a professor emeritus at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, whos an expert on this procedure (I can hold back a lot of demand for it) The majority of transsexuals no longer have the spasmodic sensation that comes from squirting out semen.They have, instead, more of a dispersal glow that is very satisfactory indeed. This dude (now dudette) is also married with kids and they nevertheless call her daddy. She and her wife get along very well and they find the relationship fleshlyly very satisfying. While I theatrical role a lot of the philosophy that prompted him to become a transvestite, I interrogation if I would undergo such an operation. Perhaps if technology advances so that it can be done in a perfect way, but approaches like this somehow dont grab me. This isnt the only way to go. If youre female, you big businessman contemplate becoming male.I read a whi le ago about how a female had an operation to have a penis implant. Such fleshly moves seem very drastic to me, even given what I verbalize earlier about sexual energy driving us. Is the artificial physical change necessary in order to experience a female (or male) existence? While the reason for contemplating what it is to be female is mostly curiousity, it might have to do with my nurture as well. It is said that transsexuals are discontented with their identities and that they seek an out, but will a physical transformation dish them?Shouldnt reconcilation of ones identity with ones self, and transcendence of that identity beyond societal norms, be profuse? If you are Cartesian (and to some extent I am), it should be. Maybe Freud was exclusively off about the Oedipus complexmaybe its something akin to the Penis look up to thing he proposedtheres some sort of a Vagina Envy among males. convey to modern science, this envy can be sated. The surgery costs about $11,000. If yo u include other plastic surgery such as a nose job and breast implants, the total cost is about $25,000. forthwith to raise some money