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Adornment and Modification |
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Voluntary alteration serves many purposes from cultural differentiation to status seeking to simple individual expression. Explore fashionistas, indigenous body rituals, clowns, court jesters and overstyled adolescents.
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Before And After Difference |
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Gender difference waxes and wanes during the course of the human lifecycle just as it has throughout the course of human evolution. Explore prehistoric man, babies, the elderly, ghosts and mummies.
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Beyond Procreation |
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The preservation of species is only a consideration for those who are immortal. Those who don’t need to worry about mortality often assume an air of asexuality since procreation is not one of their daily concerns.
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Confusion of Advanced Scrutiny |
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Androgyny sometimes creeps into the fabric of society completely without notice. Rediscover some of your most beloved animated characters and real live individuals as the androgynes they really are.
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Cultural Pioneers |
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Those who challenge social, cultural, artistic and political convention often adopt visual styles which challenge traditional gender roles. Members of this vanguard have made gender bending statements in all walks of life throughout the ages.
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Evil and Deviation |
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Within the realm of religious convention, evil is often associated with deviation from behavior sanctioned by accepted liturgy. The most extreme form of this deviation is often depicted as sexual, whether it takes the form of adopting the style and grooming, or worse, the sexual practices of the opposite gender. |
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Involuntary Amorphology |
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Victims of crime, disease and various forms of state sponsored punishment may suffer wounds to their bodies which result in the loss of outward gender difference. Often, whole populations which suffer through periods of war, famine or oppression lose not only their humanity, but also their ability to function, and look like normal men and women.
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Others From A Safe Distance |
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Unconventional sexual preference or styling has been generally frowned upon throughout the world until very recently. One safe haven for these unconventional demonstrations has been in the form of entertainment which permits the flaunting of traditional gender role and styling as long as the fictional nature of these representations are clearly understood.
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Pursuit of Anomaly |
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Within the vast realm of human pursuit, both vocational and pleasure seeking, there are many pursuits which either require or consist of altering the form and function of the human body. Advances in medical science including the use of steroids and implants allow more ability to alter the figure than ever before.
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Sub and Super Gendered |
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Appearances of super powered creatures pervade contemporary popular culture in both fictional and non-fictional forms. These creatures have powers such as immortality which transcend gender related strife or are the progeny of some altogether non-gendered species.
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