THE SEX QUESTION - What is androgyny?

What do David Bowie and Mick Jagger have in common?

Both are androgynous.

That is to say, their physical appearance allows them to impersonate a man or a woman.

If androgynes have always existed, these people convey a certain number of clichés, even fantasies.

In "Sans Rendez-Vous" Friday, the sex therapist and psychoanalyst Catherine Blanc decides to put things flat and take stock of androgyny. 

What is androgyny? 

Androgyny is the fact of not having in his body, in his features or in his gestures, a specified character of a sexual affiliation.

Concretely, an androgynous person has a physique that leaves room for doubt about his gender.

There is the possibility of playing on two tables in the way to propose oneself, to present oneself to the other and to be in relation with the others.

It is something that has always existed.

In the 1970s, we cultivated precisely its double aspect of man and woman.

It was also taken as a way of not being stigmatized and of playing with other possibilities in the imagination of the other or in his personal imagination, even in his sexuality.

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Does androgyny necessarily rhyme with homosexuality?  

Not at all !

It is quite possible to be androgynous and have a strong desire for the sex opposite to yours, while having it both ways.

It is simply an opportunity offered by the physical traits to be able to present oneself, to propose oneself as one or the other of the sexes. 

Is it more complicated to find love?

In fact, it doesn't change anything at all.

To say that it is more complicated would be to respond to the received idea that a very masculine man is necessarily looking for a very feminine woman to complement himself.

It has absolutely nothing to do: looking for a soul mate is looking for someone with whom I feel good and who does not blame who I am, who I show.

And besides, the soul mate of an androgynous is not necessarily. 

We can look for someone we will love because they look like us or vice versa.

It is not because we are androgynous that we are male and female and that we need each other more.

We always need the other.

Building with others and what they can bring us remains very rich. 

On the other hand, I believe that there are women who will never be attracted to an androgynous man.

These women want a characteristic of assertive virility, because it is more reassuring or more complementary.

Conversely, others will like this sweetness that can emerge from an androgynous physique.