Identifier: femaleimpersonat00wert (find matches)
Title: The female - impersonators; a sequel to the Autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld ..
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Werther, Ralph Herzog, Alfred W. (Alfred Waldemar), 1866-1933, ed
Subjects: Paraphilias
Publisher: New York, The Medico-Legal journal
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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ember the OldTestament doctrine: Vengeance is mine! saith Je-hovah. Those who incarcerate the innocent in thisworld will in the next have to serve time in the darkestdungeons of a just God.********* Note to Illustration Facing Page 53. My father was a reversionary pure Alpine, but his broth-ers were decidedly Nordic. My mother is a reversionary pureNordic, while roost of her brothers and sisters were predomi-nantly Alpine. Evidences of Mediterranean blood in my pater-nal or maternal stock are doubtful. I myself am predominantlyAlpine, particularly evident in my short stature and generallybrunette features. But the Nordic cross has given me a ratherruddy complexion and browned my chevelure. My beardhair is jet black, but always clean-shaven, if not eradicated. Iam of English, Scotch, Dutch, German, and French descent.During adulthood, I have always considered the highest humanbeauty to reside in adolescent Irish-Americans or Italian-Ameri-cans of approximately pure Mediterranean stock.
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The Fairie Boy Ready to Set Out on Lifes Journey (See note on page 52.) faxfOfaazjJlofci the JVutfyor (Earns to J£e a Jfemab-^mpersutiaior (Part Two summarizes my pre-nineteen life andmy physical and mental traits for those not readingmy Autobiography of an Androgyne. Particularlyfor details of purely medical interest, the scientist isreferred to that work, since the present volume is de-signed primarily for the general reader. Part Two,however, presents many facts not in mind when Iwrote the earlier work over twenty years ago.) I. Reveries Suggested by My Infancy. Connecticut, famous for its wooden nutmegs andother freak products, gave to the world, in 1874, oneof its half-dozen most widely known girl-boys. My mother has said that I was the greatest cry-baby of her eleven children. I have really never out-grown this characteristic. Still in my late forties, Ioccasionally weep bitterly for a whole hour. Up to my eighth birthday, timidity made me re-luctant to leave my mothers side to

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