Identifier: femaleimpersonat00wert (find matches)
Title: The female - impersonators; a sequel to the Autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld ..
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Werther, Ralph Herzog, Alfred W. (Alfred Waldemar), 1866-1933, ed
Subjects: Paraphilias
Publisher: New York, The Medico-Legal journal
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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ming that I was not a man, the law specifyingthat sex alone as liable. 88 Man, Woman, and Infant in One Body. That the distinction, among- the sons of Adam, ofbeing The Fairie Boy came to me, is nothing forwhich I can take credit to myself. It was merely be-cause Providence had made me, as an adult, physicallyas well as psychicly, one-third man, one-third woman,and one-third infant. Providence endowed me witha small-boy aspect, the subject of comment in myevery-day circle down to my early forties; freshnessof complexion down to thirty; innocent expression offeatures and marvellous absence of animality (inappearance only) ; cry-baby mentality; eternal child-likeness even in my professional life; and slender,lithe, and lilliputian figure down to twenty-five. The Fairie Boy ! To be frank—I am proud of thepretty nickname. This Providential distinction ispart of my compensation for my almost unparalleledsufferings from persecution at present inseparablefrom the lot of an ultra-androgyne.
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Rear View of Author at Thirty-three(Photo by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt) How I Came to Be a Female-Impersonator. 89 V. The Boy Who Never Grew to Be a Man. For the most part, the present chapter covers mytwenty-sixth to thirty-second years, during which mymost descriptive nickname was The SoldiersFriend. For I was foreordained to a sort of armylife for many years, detailed in my Autobiography ofan Androgyne, but omitted in the present volume.Here I limit myself to some related personal descrip-tion. Physique and Psyche : My career as avocationalfemale-impersonator during- the second half-dozenyears of my physical prime was even more remarkablethan during the first (outlined in Part Three).My quasi-public career as female-impersonator endedat thirty-one—at its very zenith—because I deemedmyself too old longer to play the part of French doll-baby, and because the instinct thereto progressivelyweakened from the age of thirty. My being able toplay that part down to thirty-one was possible only

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