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[–] 5 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Wonder if they were intersex.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 hours ago* (2 children)

    Says right there he was a man and hid his genitals. Was even investigated by doctors and there's nothing abour him being or identifying as anything other than a cis male, other than when he seduced that diplomat.

    Which is what makes it even more bizarre IMO that the French guy couldn't tell. Like how does it even go deep enough? Or we they doing exclusively anal?

    Though perhaps by modern terms he'd call himself nonbinary or gender fluid. I suspect there just wasn't good widely used terminology for what he saw himself as last century.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

    Idk, reading through that it felt like the french dude probably had an inkling but was in denial about it. He had slept with men up until that point and was probably just glad he found someone who, at least from the outside, fit the gender he thought/was told he should be attracted to.

    Either that or the dude was just really, really clueless about female genitalia (which, also not impossible if he had only been with men prior). Men today will still say women only have two holes down there so really that not that shocking in a time when sex ed was probably even worse than it is now.

    Editing to add that this triggered a memory of reading a story about a hetero couple who had explicitly only had sex in the woman's urethra for like 30 years or something??? People are fuckin whack man idk.

    Editimg again because I was curious. It was 52 years and I cannot believe I remembered a random post from fucking r/wtf from 14 years ago. Anyway, in my search I found that apparently urethral coitus is a (super rare) thing and usually because of a medical condition so I apologize for calling those people weird.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 hours ago*

    Intersex people are often assigned male or female based on external genitalia at birth, many don’t even know because testing is expensive and rare. Even more so when this person was born.

    The fact that their genitalia were able to be tucked so easily, and resemble a vagina makes me wonder if they did not develop “fully” due to androgen sensitivity.

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