Suddenly Sex Confessions

bee_lady · Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 254

One day while surfing the web, I came across the story of David Reimer, a man who was born a boy but raised as a girl until he was in his early teens.

His tragic life story was the result of a circumcision gone wrong followed by his parents listening to the wrong "experts".

It was a sad but inspirational story that led me to read a book about his life, As Nature Made Him: the Boy Who was Raised As a Girl by John Colapinto.

That led to me seeking more information and books on "differently-sexed" people.

Right now I'm reading about real life transsexuals, some famous and some unknown to me.

These topics fascinate me and before now, I was unaware of terms like sex reassignment surgery and ambigous genitalia.

I'm not sure what I'll do after I exhaust our library's small cache of material on these topics.

myca · Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 1150

Those are interesting topics Bee_Lady. Now I know you love reading books. It's good to hear the story of David Reimer's life. I can't imagine how it feels to be raise in different gender?