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Terminology help
Aug. 14th, 2008 11:56 amI'm writing on the Phantasmagoria again.
This time it's Wolfgang and Jene. And Jene is being a problem.
Jene is a hermaphrodite. Not intersexed, but rather their left side is male and the right side is female and they have the genitals of both, but only one breast. Each side has complete autonomy. Gene has backslanted lefty writing. Jean has perfect Palmer script.
Gene and Jean Carlisle were a cute little Beat couple who called themselves "Jene" when they went to the Phantasmagoria Carnival one June afternoon in 1960. They fell asleep in a train car and awakened to find themselves sharing a single body. Now, Jene is a fire artist, spinning it, eating it, and swallowing a flaming sword as the climax of the act.
After a failed affair with Torturo the Pain King and an uncomfortable relationship with Alice and Dinah, the conjoined twins, Jene has finally found some stability with Wolfgang, the escape artist. Wolfgang apparently suffers from Hypertrichosis, looking like this:
I told you all that to ask you this:
I know "hermaphrodite" is considered offensive in the GLBT community. What would be the appropriate term? Androgyne? Help!
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This time it's Wolfgang and Jene. And Jene is being a problem.
Jene is a hermaphrodite. Not intersexed, but rather their left side is male and the right side is female and they have the genitals of both, but only one breast. Each side has complete autonomy. Gene has backslanted lefty writing. Jean has perfect Palmer script.
Gene and Jean Carlisle were a cute little Beat couple who called themselves "Jene" when they went to the Phantasmagoria Carnival one June afternoon in 1960. They fell asleep in a train car and awakened to find themselves sharing a single body. Now, Jene is a fire artist, spinning it, eating it, and swallowing a flaming sword as the climax of the act.
After a failed affair with Torturo the Pain King and an uncomfortable relationship with Alice and Dinah, the conjoined twins, Jene has finally found some stability with Wolfgang, the escape artist. Wolfgang apparently suffers from Hypertrichosis, looking like this:
I told you all that to ask you this:
I know "hermaphrodite" is considered offensive in the GLBT community. What would be the appropriate term? Androgyne? Help!
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