The Shemale As A Figure in Art

The writer of shemale erotic fiction is doubly blessed-and doubly cursed-because he or she has to describe the best of both worlds: both female faces, breasts, legs, buttocks, and anus and penis, testicles, and scrotum.

Although, overall, his or her protagonist must be not only feminine but, usually, beautiful, but she must also be, as far as her male genitals are concerned, virile. More than most elements in shemale erotica, it is the incongruous juxtaposition of the female and the male sexual characteristics that attracts (and, perhaps, simultaneously, for some readers, at least, repels), mystifies, and excites, for, in her own being, the shemale, more than the hermaphrodite of ancient art, both unifies and separates the opposing polarities of male and female, masculine and feminine, man and woman. It is the challenge of the writer of shemale erotic fiction to describe this unblended mix of sex and gender.

Since it is unlikely that most writers of shemale erotic fiction have seen many shemales in person, he or she should make full use of the hundreds, even thousands, of images of transsexuals on the Internet, studying both their close approximations to genetic women and the slight differences that, to the practiced eye, may enable an observer to discern that the transsexual was not born as the woman she so closely resembles. Some of the masculine characteristics that some individuals specify as suggesting that conservative Republican pundit Ann Coulter my be a transsexual are her height, brow ridges, pronounced Adam's apple, and large hands and feet. An online "Shemale or Female" quiz can help the aspiring shemale fiction writer discern these subtle differences. In describing shemales realistically, a writer must be able to focus on both the obvious similarities between transsexuals and genetic women and the not-so-obvious differences. Studying photographs or high-quality printouts of graphic images of shemales and females that have been placed side by side will help the writer to distinguish both these similarities and differences, as will understanding the changes that shemales undergo as transitioning transwomen. The writer of shemale fiction should remember, too, that the transitioning transsexual can stop or skip any phase of the process.