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editA shemale (sometimes she-male) is a person who has a female body, including fully developed breasts, and is a woman in all respects except that the shemale has male genitalia.[1][2] In other words, a shemale displays characteristically female secondary sex characteristics, such as breasts, but includes male primary sex characteristics, like a penis[3] and testicles. With clothes on, a shemale looks like a woman.
Shemale is a pre-op transexual,[4] typically having breasts of an adult female, and usually have other female secondary sex characteristics, but have not undergone genital reassignment surgery[5].[6] Breasts(and other secondary sex characteristics) are formed through hormone replacement therapy and/or through breast augmentation or due to intersexuality‹The template Talkfact is being considered for merging.› [citation needed].
This term is used mainly in the porn industry. The term (along with tranny, ladyboy and "chick with a dick") is frequently used in the adult entertainment industry.[7] The term shemale is generally considered a derogatory term to refer to transwomen. Many people, especially transgendered individuals themselves, consider the term highly offensive [8].[9] Transwoman is male-to-female transgender or transsexual differs from shemale and is a wider term.
Etymology
editIn the early 19th century, "she-male" was used as a colloquialism in American literature for "Female"[10] Davy Crockett is quoted as using the term in regards to a shooting match, when his opponent challenges Davy Crockett to shoot near his opponent's wife, Davy Crockett is reported to have replied:[11]
No, No, Mike," sez I, Davy Crockett's hand would be sure to shake, if his iron pointed within a hundred miles of a shemale, and I give up beat...
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, by 1970 the term shemale had come to mean "Masculine Lesbian",[10] although this is no longer common usage.
In 1979, Janice Raymond employed the term's modern usage in her controversial book, The Transsexual Empire[12] in which she argues that from a feminist point of view, transsexuals constitute an attack by males upon femininity.
The term Shemale is often used in English translations for Futanari , a subtype of hentai. However the most correct term for Futanari is perhaps intersexuals or hermaphrodites.[13] Futanari are most traditionally drawn with both Male and Female reproductive organs, and female secondary sexual characteristics, although there are several modern variations on the theme.[13]
References
edit- ^ U.S. v. Pryba (April 9, 1990) 900 F.2d 748, pages 750-751 (4th Cir. (Virginia)).
- ^ [1] "characterizing those with fem features and male genitalia"
- ^ pdf "shemale: A term, usually derogatory, used most often in the porn industry for a pre-op transsexual who has already developed breasts but still has an intact penis." [2]
- ^ Definition of "she-male" - reference.com
- ^ "A transsexual who has not undergone gender reassignment surgery." copyrighted by sex dictionary
- ^ Definition of "shemale" - WordWeb Online
- ^ Glossary of Transgendered Terms TS Roadmap
- ^ ""What's offensive"". Retrieved 2007-02-19.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ a b she-male. Dictionary.com. Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. [3] (accessed: February 20, 2007)
- ^ Boorstin, Daniel J. Part Seven: "Search for Symbols" in: The Americans, vol. 2 The National Experience. N.Y. (Vintage) 1965, pp. 335f.
- ^ Raymond J. The Transsexual Empire (1979 and 1994; reprinted by Teachers College, Columbia University, New York; Editions du Seuil, Paris)
- ^ a b ""Animeph - Anime and manga vocabulary/lingo/terms/translations"". Retrieved 2007-02-20.
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