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
Digitizing Sponsor: Duke University Libraries

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an in a village. My being fated to make my home in New York almost throughout my adulthood has had a tre-mendous influence on my life, particularly from nine-teen to thirty-one. My father gave me every educational advantage because in the fairly large prep that I attended from my tenth to sixteenth years, I attained the highest scholarship in the history of the school. In an address to the students, the principal named me as the youthful scholar to be patterned after by the other boys (! ! !). I know I shall be accused of exaggerated ego for the way I talk about myself in this and the next chapter. But seven articles have been published about myself in medical journals, exclusive of numerous reviews of my Autobiography of an Androgyne. How many people can go into a library, call for magazines, and gaze at pictures of themselves within their covers? How many people have had a three-volume autobiog-raphy published? With such a record, I suspect that I am either insane or else one of the half-dozen most
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Front View of Author at Thirty-three (Photo by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt) The Authors Brain. 83 remarkable sexual curiosities of my generation. On the latter chance, I am moved to leave on record a full account of both my inner and outer rare life ex-perience. As to bragging about my intellect, my experience of half-a-century is that in general, Providence makes compensations in the lives of men so that as they, one by one, pass on to the next world, all have fared equally as concerns Heaven-sent boons and the opposite. As a counterweight to having created me a bitterly per-secuted sexual cripple (for His inscrutable but surelywise ends) the Architect of the universe endowed me with a brain of such capacity as found in only one out of twenty-five university graduates. I wrote stories at eight. At thirteen I was confident I would become an author and my name be chiselled on the walls of fame. My college associates commented on my fem-ine squeness and infantilism. I perceived that I was looked upon as a cur

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