And now, God damn to bloody fucking Hell your fucking unsubstantiated and unexamined Notions of what is normal for all People (and all Species) at all Times, while you consider this curious little Anecdote from Pliny [the Elder's] Natural History (XXXIV.61-62):
Now, Sir or Madam, Con or Asshole, as the case may be, would you care to try to refute the proposition that [male] homosexuality is, and always has been, the normal, default mode of sexuality for the vast majority of normal men--as it is (and, we may assume, ever was) for males of certain other Species, cetaceans (dolphins of all kinds, particularly) and giraffes to name but two for sure, but possibly including cheetahs, elephants and lions. You might start with a snarky, captious Open Question about those theatre-going, sexy male statue-admiring Frequenters of the Warm Baths of Agrippa...Some of whom might just, you think perhaps, have been Women? N'est-ce pas? Hell, yes--if Vanessa Redgrave and Helen Mirren can play Prospero, and Sarah Bernhardt can play Hamlet...and if indeed the Sex must be granted, by courtesy, the right, as equals with men, to act in the plays of Shakespeare (who never saw an actress in his life)...Surely then, just as trannies now claim to've been the original high-kickers in the riots at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 (when there were as yet no transsexuals), surely we may suppose that short, gruff, hoarse-voiced "gay trans men" (women pretending to be men in order to dupe, or argue, gay men into having sex with them) were among the sculptor Lysippus' earliest, most ardent admirers. In fact, if I look closely at the Apoxyomenos, at what I had thought, or just assumed to be a rude, late barbarian penectomy, I think I perceive, instead, a crude early phalloplasty. Bring it on, ladies.
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