Hermaphroditus

Hermaphroditus

Symbolically, the “both/and” body that undermines “either/or” binaries. Hermaphroditus, a mythical Greek figure, is

the two-sexed child of Hermes and Aphrodite, a symbol of androgyny, portrayed in Greco-Roman art as a female figure with male genitals.

I identify with the myth or its inversion.  My body is a “both/and” body. I have a male figure with an atrophied lady penis and gynecomastia breasts.  These features are side effects of the prostate cancer treatment, ADT. I didn’t choose to transition. This two-sexed body is not the body I wanted, but it’s the body I have, and possibly, the body I need and have always needed. 

They say that the ancients understood the proportionality of the body, but that penis seems a little bit too far down the leg to me.