ABSTRACT
Around the turn of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud released his seminal work, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, in which he introduced his theory of childhood sexuality outlining the oral, anal and genital stages for the first time, and claiming the readers are all born bisexual and intrinsically polymorphously perverse. Freud actually agreed with this definition of perversion but stated that perversion is our natural inclination and is the norm; it even precedes the norm. In The Ego and the Id, Freud stated our ego is first and foremost a body-ego. In Gender, Sex and the Sexual, Jean Laplanche differentiated gender, sex and sexuality in the following way: Gender is plural. In the 1980s, there began a movement of body modification as tattooing and body piercing were becoming more widespread through the underground and countercultural scenes. In The Pandrogeny Manifesto, Breyer P-Orridge state: Some people feel they are a man trapped in a woman’s body.
