Body vs. Soul

Visual examples of androgyny are common and expected in instances involving those whose sexual preference includes both male and female or who prefer partners only of the same sex as themselves. Those who choose and indeed, are born into these sexual preferences often adopt habits of dressing, grooming or behaving like those of the opposite sex, or of neither in particular. This may be done as a way to identify their sexuality to others of the same sexual preference, to seek or demand acceptance on a par with other more common or conventional sexual orientations, or simply to mock or flaunt the intolerance of their marginalized, even illegal status. One or the other partner in same sex relationships may even adopt characteristics of the opposite sex in order to conform to societal expectations of how a woman, in the case of a relationship between two men, or a man, in the case of a relationship between two women, should typically appear and behave.