# How attached are you to your gender?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-attached-are-you-to-your-gender/515692>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 30, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-attached-are-you-to-your-gender/515692 "2009-10-30T03:17:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-attached-are-you-to-your-gender/515692/21 "2009-10-30T20:04:46Z")

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I am confused because ‘‘waking up in a man’s body’’ would be a change of sex, not gender, right? I’ve always perceived gender as a socialized identity based on sex. If I woke up tomorrow with a penis, I’d still identify as female in terms of gender.

That said, I absolutely love being a woman, though I could do without the PMS and higher probability of being a victim of abuse and violent assault. Even given those factors and the various other disadvantages, I wouldn’t change my sex OR my gender. Dressing up is fun. Lace, sexy underwear, ribbons and bows, and pink, and cute things, and being soft–all of that, completely worth it.

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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-attached-are-you-to-your-gender/515692/22 "2009-10-30T20:18:10Z")

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> [@HeyHomie](#):
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> If science figured out a way to put me into the body of a healthy female, just for the day, I’d be all over it in a heartbeat. I’ve _got_ to find out what vaginal sex feels like for the woman before I die!

Yeah, OK, I’ll give in on that one. I’d be a man for _one day_, just so I could see how the male orgasm differs in feeling from the female orgasm! Of course, in addition to the guarantee that it’s “just for one day”, I’d also want a guarantee of getting laid! 😃

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-attached-are-you-to-your-gender/515692/23 "2009-10-30T20:29:10Z")

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> [@Enderw24](#):
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> ::tugs::
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> OW!
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> Um…pretty friggin attached.

Hint: Tug a little more gently. And repeatedly.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-attached-are-you-to-your-gender/515692/24 "2009-10-30T20:31:20Z")

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> [@HeyHomie](#):
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> If science figured out a way to put me into the body of a healthy female, just for the day, I’d be all over it in a heartbeat. I’ve _got_ to find out what vaginal sex feels like for the woman before I die!

But wouldn’t you have to have sex with a woman that got the same deal? I mean, that way it wouldn’t feel as gay, right?

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