If you could change gender for 1 to 3 days

@liquidsky, it's a shame that the two of us are separated by about half a world. It might be dangerous for a old fart like me to let a beautiful young lady play with my body but I'm willing to take the chance.

Go for it Stephen if only in your imagination !!!

Cookie,

Enjoy the links... 😁

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djYz6p3i-t0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIqttbRlJUQ

The convenience of urinating and such with a penis, I see that as the only advantage. Just my personal opinion.

Andie^^^Good one...love the stage props!!..So on the flip side we get to enjoy all the Girlie bits then...mmm !!...I do like the "Extra's" 😉 😁

Cookie,

Enjoy the links... 😁

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djYz6p3i-t0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIqttbRlJUQ

The convenience of urinating and such with a penis, I see that as the only advantage. Just my personal opinion.

HAhahahaha i am gonna say what you always say "laughter is the best medicine" thank you for the links,cartoon is hilarious 😁

I guess I'm in the minority here- I just have no desire to to experience being the opposite gender. But, if it were actually a possibility, why turn it down? It wouldn't hurt

I just realized that in this thread, a lot of us have been referring to this question of temporarily switching bodies as switching gender. But gender is internal. So the question is really, does this scenario involve switching bodies and switching gender, or just switching bodies?

If you were one of the people who said they would switch bodies for 1 to 3 days or whatever length of time, would you also switch to the opposite gender? Or would you want to keep the same gender you are now and only experience the temporary switch physically?

I just realized that in this thread, a lot of us have been referring to this question of temporarily switching bodies as switching gender. But gender is internal. So the question is really, does this scenario involve switching bodies and switching gender, or just switching bodies?

If you were one of the people who said they would switch bodies for 1 to 3 days or whatever length of time, would you also switch to the opposite gender? Or would you want to keep the same gender you are now and only experience the temporary switch physically?

H C, That's a great question

I would do a body change for a few days to see what the male body feels like--having a hanging penis and testicles bouncing around instead of breasts--and for no other reason than to prove to myself that absolutely nothing would be different in my life. The thing is, I'm a happy person and I could be just as happy in either body. The body is purely a vehicle for the mind. I just happen to be in the body that I got.

I am what I am and a differently shaped skin or wearing different clothes or haircut wouldn't make me feel any different. I have no fantasies about it.

There is one thing I would miss if I were a male. My orgasm wouldn't last as long [female orgasms do last longer than males on average] and I wouldn't have as short a refractory period after my orgasms! On the positive side of being male, grooming would take significantly less time in the morning.

The body is just the vehicle for the mind. Good one Susie.

I would change bodies for a day or 3 just to feel what intercourse feels like from the other side. I already have sensitive nipples, but having big breasts to try out would also be interesting...

My GF and I both would love to switch for 3 days or even longer to see what the other half experiences. What an adventure it would be especially to talk about it after reverting to our original sexes.

Susie,

That is a very interesting answer, especially when you explain it like that. So if you would be just as happy in either body, does that mean that you identify just as much with one gender as another, or exactly half way in between on the gender spectrum? Excuse me if the question is too personal. That is just the impression I get from anyone who feels like they would be just as happy in either body. I am sure that does not apply to everyone who feels that way, and perhaps it is false in general. I really don't know. After all, I am not a psychologist. It is just something I wonder about.

Susie,

That is a very interesting answer, especially when you explain it like that. So if you would be just as happy in either body, does that mean that you identify just as much with one gender as another, or exactly half way in between on the gender spectrum? Excuse me if the question is too personal. That is just the impression I get from anyone who feels like they would be just as happy in either body. I am sure that does not apply to everyone who feels that way, and perhaps it is false in general. I really don't know. After all, I am not a psychologist. It is just something I wonder about.

I identify totally as a female woman because that what I am. If I were something else, I would identify with that because that's what I would be. That is why I would be equally happy in either body, not that I identify half way between the two. I could color my hair red, blonde or black, but I'd still be a brunette with colored hair. I know what I am and I would identify with whatever I am because I am a realist.

Ever since I was a baby, I identified as a female, I was very clear about knowing I had a vagina like my mother and my older brother and father had a penis. They were boys and we were girls. When I was a baby, I wanted to be out of diapers and into thin silky panties like my mother wore. After I was two, my mother was wonderful and let me wear her jewelry including her clip-on earrings because she didn't have pierced ears until she was in her late twenties--one of the few things my mother didn't do when she was younger. She and I got our ears pierced the same day for my birthday. I am sure she did it because I wanted pierced ears like both my grandmothers so I could wear a greater variety of their earrings. Everything about me is female and womanly.

As I said in my last post, the body is simply a vehicle for the mind.

Yes.

I would do it just to experience what the opposite sex feels, thinks, enjoys, despises , values, etc.

It would provide good insight on how to communicate with or relate to members of the newly-experienced sex/gender.

Great Question !!!

As a male I'd like a minimum of 30 days to get a better understanding..................

As an intern once told me about buying a van in Gary Indiana from an Indian gentleman--good motor, bad body. That's what think about myself and my mind.

Susie, I used to think the same way as what you mentioned:

I can see where you are coming from. Eventually, however, it occurred to me that reality contains many, many forms of existence and if I was to be a true realist, I had to follow it wherever it led. Who has time for that? But I was still led to understand that when gender is consistent with what our little society says it should be, according to the shape of one's genitals, it is just a coincidence. And any gender is just as valid as another, in any body it inhabits. Reality, after all, is very random and complex. Our society, or at least the reactionaries, attempts to pigeonhole everything in reality into a very narrow, reductionist set of constructs that have been contrived in simple minds- with no regard for facts that have existed long before any society was formed. That is not realism. It is delusion.

Let's NOT do the "reality has many forms of existence" thing.

There is only ONE reality. The rest is perception which has one form of correct and MANY forms of WRONG.

The body is just the vehicle for the mind.

Essentially that's probably correct. When viewed over a long period of time.

But here's something to counter that. Outward appearances can change how one feels about oneself. Wearing different clothes can make you feel very different, more dinghy or dirty, or more affluent, at ease or even more authoritarian. That is for instance a side effect of wearing uniforms. Uniforms bolster a person's self image and can project power and authority. That's why there are people who just love the feeling those nifty Hugo Boss SS uniforms make them feel. Wearing them, changes how they feel.

So, I think it's more subtle than that. When the body changes, so does the mind partly.

Agracier, I'll counter your counter with what I said in an earlier post:

I could color my hair red, blonde or black, but I'd still be nothing more than a brunette with colored hair.

THAT'S REALITY.

I would like to try this just to see what it is like to have sex as a female.

Bill

I could color my hair red, blonde or black, but I'd still be nothing more than a brunette with colored hair.

THAT'S REALITY.

Obviously there are degrees of change and feeling. Some changes can elicit deep feelings of how one perceives oneself, other changes will be trivial and of no consequence.

I think what the difference of opinion is about, is the argument between the reality of chemistry and biology - namely that our DNA is immutable and that therefore we are also immutable as persons.

But there is also the school of psychological thought that feelings and perceptions of who we are, can change according to circumstances. And that these changes result in different feelings but also in different ways of interacting with people around us. And because others see only outward appearances and not our innate DNA, outward appearances will influence how others interact with us and we consequently with them.

It's very simple to understand that a person will be treated differently because of the manner of dress. Someone in a uniform of (dreaded) authority, will be treated differently by others and consequently also act differently towards others. Hence, for a period at least, they become different people.

On a personal level I know very well that when i used to work for a multinational and I put on my London tailored three piece striped suit and tie, I felt and acted differently towards people than when I was home in corduroy pants and a sweater. How much more different would that have been in a truly respected or feared uniform? Or had I dressed in a dress and blouse and high heels?

Granted the personality changes are temporary, but they are manifest to others nonetheless and to yourself as well if you are introspective and honest.

I think we've had similar conversations and differences of opinion on matters like transgendering or gender changing as well as how languages change and evolve.

I really love these kind of exchanges. Makes me feel young again and back in high school among the Jesuits ... 😃 😃

^^^^ Yes, we have. This topic is on the same vein, only as a short term experience.

I know what you mean about how you dress and how you are perceived by others. Of course when I go to a fancy department store or to buy a fancy car, I want to look the part so the salesman knows I'm serious, not just a bum who wants a test drive in an expensive car. There are plenty of laws now that ensure men and women get equal treatment. Anyone who doesn't feel they do can go to court.

The thing is, when I'm home or outside and I'm in jeans digging in the garden, I don't feel any worse about myself than when I'm in an evening gown at a black tie affair because it's still just me. Whether I'm plain Jane or painted Pauline, I'm still the same person.

The body is nothing more than a vehicle for the mind.

I pride myself on acting the same no matter what I'm wearing. As Steinbeck said about Edward (Doc)

Ricketts, when he wore his jeans and wool shirt, he made everyone else feel overdressed.

Yeah, I'd do it, just to see if an enema was still stimulating.

I pride myself on acting the same no matter what I'm wearing.

Maybe that works for most people's limited range of experiences.

But try wearing prison garb or a homeless drifter's clothes or a cop uniform or an expensive business suit in the presence of others you do not know or do not know you and see how long you can really keep on acting the same. There will be changes in your comportment because of how other people will be treating you differently. And also in how you feel because of the manner others will look down on or up to you. It takes enormous self control not to feel slighted or smug.

Then again, maybe you're Hollywood star material and ought to consider a career in acting ... but few are good at it though ...

Definitely not Hollywood material. I've had the good fortune to avoid both the military and also jail so far. Personally I can't stand dressing up. I thank my lucky stars I can work in scrub pajamas. I'm so uptight in a suit I can't stand it. Remember that I grew up with California casual.

^^^^ That isn't the same thing at all. Prison clothes, cop outfit. . . ???

They both make you look like someone people need to be afraid of.

That's not the same as changing your sex for a few days.

Susie, I'm not trying to say that reality is subjective. I was referring to the fact that there are 7 billion people in the world and one is just as real as the next. Even if someone's hair color is not natural, the color is still real. It just comes from a bottle and not from one's natural pigmentation. And of course they are still a real person.

By the way agracier, your example reminded me of the Stanford Prison Experiment, where students were in a fabricated "prison" and observed by psychologists. Some volunteers for the experiment wore the uniforms of guards, and some wore the uniforms of prisoners. Guess how that turned out? Exactly as you would expect, based on your comments. There's a movie about it now.

background info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

movie trailer:

https://youtu.be/3XN2X72jrFk

I think the findings of this experiment relate to the discussion of gender and sex. Susie, you mentioned that at a young age you knew you were one of the girls because you had a vagina. But isn't that just like the subjects identifying as prisoners because they wore prison uniforms, or identifying as guards because they wore guard uniforms? The point is that people in a society tend to play the roles that are expected of them, based on their appearance. And yet, one's innate, internal identity does not always coincide with the expectations that society has based on appearance alone. It's a matter of appearance versus reality. They do not always coincide. But if they do, it's a coincidence and nothing more.