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  Does it matter how beautiful a woman is if she wasn't genetically born a woman? Beijing has handed down an edict that a Chinese transsexual - who had been born a man but had undergone gender reassignment - has been denied from participating in the 2004 Miss Universe competition.Chen Lili, who is by all accounts a rather successful 24-year-old fashion model from China's southwestern Sichuan province, should and would have been the first transgender woman to try her hand at the title. "The sex of the candidates should be female at birth and cannot be artificially changed," Miss Universe selection committee chairman Zhang Ruiling told AFP. "The Miss Universe pageant does not reject transgenders but it would be unfair to the other candidates if we allowed a transsexual woman to participate," said Zhang, speaking on behalf of the Miss Universe-China organization. The lovely Chen, whose previous name was Yongjun or "Brave Soldier," had asked for and received permission to participate in a series of pageants to become China's Miss Universe, but the decision was unexpectedly reversed. She underwent transsexual surgery in November 2003 and made headlines in local papers last month when she won official approval to change her sex on identity papers. This is a big deal and the first decision of its kind in the seemingly repressive governmental standards of Beijing. However, transsexuals have ceased to be such a taboo topic in China in recent years. Studies tell that a total of 500 Chinese men have so far had their sex changed surgically, according to previous reports in China's state media. This seems pretty progressive in a state where we've previously seen tanks entering Tiananmen Square to quell peaceful student protests. Disappointingly enough, although Chen will no longer be able to compete for beauty queen positions, she has been given permission to be allowed to perform during the staging of Miss Sichuan in April. "Because of her honesty and courage in telling us the truth we will give her another chance during the (Miss Sichuan) selection to perform in front of the audience," Zhang said. That's Not the Key  A penis always hangs a little to the left or a little to the right - it depends on the man. But now there comes a tale of a Russian man who has been told he will have a bent penis for the rest of his life after trapping it in a padlock. It seems odd that no-one asked how the penis became inserted into the lock, but Firemen in Moscow spent an hour freeing the 20-year-old man when he called emergency services after a sex game went wrong. A doctor at Moscow's Hospital No.50, where he was treated after his traumatic period of self-inflicted bondage, told local daily Moskovsky Komsomolets: "His penis will be bent to one side but it will still function." How did the penis actually become freed? Firemen used cold water and grease to try to release the padlock before finally cutting it free with a saw. One has to wonder what the sex game was…An EBay Society If you think you can find just about anything on Ebay, you're just about right, although recent crack-downs have probably put a stop to practices like this. A student in the UK was auctioning off her virginity on the famous sellers' website, which prompted police to examine whether an auction of this sort on the internet is breaking the law. The student in question, Rosie Reid, who is an 18-year-old Bristol University student, reported that she wanted the cash to avoid graduating with too many debts. We all know the cost of a good schooling can be astronomical, but has this crossed the line? According to her website, she closed the sale after receiving an £8,400 bid on Sunday. Police in the Avon and Somerset areas admit to being stymied, quoted as saying, "It's a strange one because it's a grey area. I think it's probably illegal because it's like soliciting, but we are taking legal advice over the matter." A spokeswoman for the university where Ms. Reid attended classes said, "As far as the university is concerned we have no comment as it's not a university issue and the student is an adult." And what does Mom think of all this? Well, it seems Miss Reid's mother Jenny said, "We have tried to talk her out of it. We have told her we would rather she didn't do this, and would hope that she won't. She did tell us about it when she knew it was going to be reported by the media." According to The Bristol Evening Post, the student, who is a lesbian and in a "desperate financial crisis" (and who isn't after a college/university stint?), will contact the winning bidder on Wednesday. No comment was forthcoming from a spokesperson for Ms Reid, who is from Dulwich, in London. One hopes it was alt least enough to pay off her books. Eanie Meanie  We've learned of a study with some rather fascinating facts that go far to examine the trauma and later-on stress and post-traumatic stress disorder of children born with dual sex organs and the difficulties their parents face at birth. Many more than previously believed, hundreds of children are born with dual sex organs and no clear cut evidence as to which way they were meant to go. Generally one can try to discern the correct assignments by counting the X and Y chromosomes, bit in some cases, even this proves a technical impossibility. Doctors and parents - and the children - are said to face a lifetime of agony in trying to make the correct choices at such an early stage of the infant's life. Hermaphrodites, people born with two sets of sexual organs, made up between 0% and 2% of all live births, according to a 2000 study. The typical and traditional method of dealing with this natural phenomenon is to assign a gender soon after birth, preferably during infancy. This is to try to give the children the chance at so-called normal lives without having to deal with the knowledge that they were born in a complicated fashion. Let's be clear - there is no "right" or "wrong" in this phenomenon.But there have been recognized problems with the early reassignments - intersexed people have long complained of the harmful effects of surgeries, the inability to have a successful sex life, feeling that they were given the wrong "assignments" and an exaggerated cancer risk. In an ongoing effort to assist doctors in gathering evidence on whether or not this immediate infant "gender assignment" is actually a wise decision, the American Academy of Pediatrics has stepped in and is now in the midst of a study led by Dr. Ian Aaronson, a professor of urology and pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is coordinating what he hopes will be the largest-ever follow-up study of intersexuals to see what effects, good or bad, surgery has had on their emotional, psychological and sexual well-being. We can only hope it will lead to a more enlightened method of dealing with this remarkable phenomenon. Moaning in Berlin This has to be the oddest complaint made by a neighbor ever. A Berlin woman has complained to the local courts of "groaning and banging" sex, and has taken her male neighbor to task for noise pollution. Her biggest complaint is that he repeatedly kept her awake through half the night with at least a four-hour sex session, a court spokeswoman says. Personally, I say four hours of sex should be applauded. "Four hours of sex noises. What was I supposed to think? It was nothing but groaning and banging," the woman told the judge, a Bild newspaper reported on Friday. This poor (and evidently unsatisfied - if you get my drift) woman told Berlin judges that her 25-year-old neighbor Andreas G. was disturbing the peace - and her peace of mind - by keeping her awake early in the morning. The gentleman in question said his neighbor had complained in the past, calling at five in the afternoon, but that he had not felt the need to respond to her complaints. "I can have as much sex as loud as I want," he said. Well…who can blame him? The judge in the complaint dropped the case on learning that the man has since moved out of the apartment. One can only hope his new neighbors are deaf.  German Cheating Is Good For YouIf you've ever felt the need to look outside your relationship for a bit of sport, now it seems that it's a doctor recommended activity. A German psychologist has determined that long-term relationships and good sex are "an impossible combination." Who'd have thought? Dr. Michael Mary, the psychologist in question, says that, following years of research as a sex therapist in Berlin, he has learned that trying to continue having satisfying sex in an exclusive relationship is just not possible. His remedy for your monogamous boring love life and getting it spicier than ever again is to simply cheat on your partner. He is quoted as saying: "It is impossible to get everything together. To have trust and harmony and at the same time the level of passion and desire one experiences on the first day simply doesn't exist." Play on, folks! And keep those eyes open - it could just save your relationship.
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