the third sex

My old friend Seymour Totti interviewed me a while back for his site (you can find the full interview here ) and during the course of a long conversation about the origins of my interest in ladyboys, he asked me if I had ever had any interest in the more camp aspects of British theatre.
 
It was a fair enough question. Any British kid going to a pantomime is going to see men dressed as women (and girls dressed as boys), and there is an honourable tradition of female impersonators and drag artists that goes back way into history.
 
Seymour mentioned one name in particular, Danny La Rue, who was a famous female impersonator during the time when I was an adolescent and consequently open to anything which had even the vaguest hint of sexuality about it.
 
Did such acts ever prod your curiosity, he asked me.
 
No, was the answer. Not in the slightest. I found Danny La Rue to be tedious and embarrassing. The same went for pantomime dames and drag characters in stage farces, and even as a kid I would find them silly and completely unfunny. Drag queens are a different species, but they always seemed to be middle-aged men trying to fulfil fantasies of their own, and I had no interest in them.
 
In other words, I didn’t find any of them provocative or entertaining. I found them really rather distasteful. As to the origin of men dressing as women for stage productions, I would assume that has its roots in the time when women were not allowed on stage, and female roles were taken by boys and men.

Seymour then asked me about the Thai theatre’s long history of casting males in female roles. I said that I thought essentially that tradition sprang from a different source.
 
Ancient Buddhist texts including the Tipitaka, on which the Buddhist scriptures of Thailand, Burma, and Sri Lanka are based, recognise the existence of at least three sexes, and sometimes as many as five.
 
Traditionally, Thais believe that karma is the reason a person is born as transsexual. The kathoey is paying back for transgressions in a previous existence, and is therefore to be pitied and possibly even envied, because she is in the process of working off a large spiritual debt, presumably leaving the way clear for a better existence next time round

So the kathoey is accepted as being part of society. You will find them throughout Thailand. In provincial towns everywhere, you will find a kathoey community. In the remotest villages you are even likely to find one or two. Visit a temple fair, and you will almost invariably see a kathoey beauty contest, or a stage performance featuring kathoeys. Out of this grew the cabaret concept.

So I believe that the tradition of ladyboy stage performers reflects the fact that they have always been an important part of Thai society, on one level having a very visible presence that is hard to ignore, and on another level having a spiritual quality that can be used to good dramatic effect. They are also of course used to add humour to a theatrical production. Whether performing for the royal court or for makeshift stage shows out in the sticks, a production would reflect life and would also need to entertain.
 
It is all a fascinating subject, and as I have said on this page before, one that cries out for serious research.

An old friend of mine who lives in the Caribbean  emailed me during the week to report gleefully that he had been driving home late during the evening through the very quiet town centre  of his island when he had seen two  girls hanging around, presumably looking for business. He stopped his car and recognised one of the girls, a well-worn local hooker. The other one was however a newcomer, very shy.

She was very feminine, but when she asked my pal if he was interested in “travestis”, the penny dropped. Was he hell! He has in recent years come to find the third sex more enticing than GGs. Within a very short time, they were together in a hotel, and her little black dress had slipped off to reveal “an eight or nine incher, with no exaggeration.”

I could only envy him for his adventure, and also for the size of the girl in question. Despite the fact I see a vast number of Thai ladyboys during the course of a year, it is relatively infrequently that I see a good sized cock. I see many very pretty ones, I see a lot of stiff eager ones, and I see far too many uninspiring ones. Seldom do I see a magnificent  one.

There is no doubt that those of us who love ladyboys really want the combination of a lovely feminine face and body with a good, hard dick that spurts lots of hot white cum.  What, after all, could be more exotic?

But the Talishas of this world are few and far between. In fact, ever since Talisha left Thailand to go and live overseas, I have been looking for someone who is as well-endowed as she is. So far, I have been disappointed. Not entirely, of course – there are some beautiful cocks out there. But in terms of sheer, spectacular size, the  proportion  of the ladyboy population possessing such an asset is small.
 
They do tend to make up for it to some extent by being eager, but a few years of taking hormones tends to reduce this. Lesson: find a young ladyboy, one who hasn’t been taking the dick-nobbling hormones for too long.

I think this must be a national characteristic. I seldom go to a gay bar, so I don’t really know if this tendency towards average sized penises is across the board, or if it afflicts mainly ladyboys. I suppose I shall just have to carry on with my research.