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*23. What is Lesbian?
*23. What is Lesbian?
Kimi is awakened by a touch then a tickle. Where? What? She reaches half in dream trying to flick away the irritating feeling.
Slowly her eyelids part and she sees sunlight streaming in through the open window and feels warm breeze, smells salty sea.
Now, she sees Harumi lying prone alongside on left and directing thin bamboo fiber into Kimi’s right nostril. “Sorry to wake you from delicious sleep but I have a plan.”
Now, she sees Harumi lying prone alongside on left and directing thin bamboo fiber into Kimi’s right nostril. “Sorry to wake you from delicious sleep but I have a plan.”
Sound of footsteps patter up stairs! Yotchan appears with breakfast tray for two. “Big Sis! Auntie! Mama says you are to relax and have breakfast here.”
The girl places tray on floor and goes. Kimi sees and smells cups of brown bean soup in which float black ribbons of seaweed, white morsels of shellfish and small, brightly white button-mushrooms. Next to it is bowl of fragrant steaming white rice, slices of pickled white radish, six freshly harvested small purple plums and cups of hot green tea.
The girl places tray on floor and goes. Kimi sees and smells cups of brown bean soup in which float black ribbons of seaweed, white morsels of shellfish and small, brightly white button-mushrooms. Next to it is bowl of fragrant steaming white rice, slices of pickled white radish, six freshly harvested small purple plums and cups of hot green tea.
Sitting cross-legged facing, the friends pick up chopsticks. Kimi eats vigorously; Harumi, leisurely.
Harumi feels compelled to turn the talk to last night. “Kimi! Now you know I am lesbian, does it make a difference?”
“Lesbian?” Kimi repeats the foreign word.
“Same-sex-loving woman,” Harumi’s finger traces out the Chinese characters.
“Same-sex-loving woman,” Harumi’s finger traces out the Chinese characters.
“Don’t I know?” Kimi, picks last bit of rice from bowl. "I knew girls in Manchu that did it when they got fed up with men. It’s not strange to me.”
"But that is not what it really means, Kimi. Being lesbian is not just woman making love to woman: it is a preference, a way of life. Just because you made love with me last night does not make you lesbian. You are a woman who loves making love. But I want a woman. I cannot imagine doing it with any old body.”
“Maybe your mama didn’t eat right when she was carrying you?” Kimi says, remembering that Grandma usually blamed foods a mother ate in pregnancy for how the baby turns out as adult.
“That is an old midwife’s tale. No one really knows what makes a lesbian: some say we are just born, you know, heredity? Or that a child grows up too much influenced by father because mother is too weak and so the child comes to like what father likes? But I have my own idea. Want to hear it?”
“That is an old midwife’s tale. No one really knows what makes a lesbian: some say we are just born, you know, heredity? Or that a child grows up too much influenced by father because mother is too weak and so the child comes to like what father likes? But I have my own idea. Want to hear it?”
“Tell it” says Kimi.
“I think women are the real people.”
“Then what are men?”
“Freaks.”
“Freaks?”
“Exactly! Mutants! You know, a malformation that got started by bad luck and like bad blood has poisoned humanity down the ages. Once a beautiful peaceful world of women existed where women had babies as queen bees do. When that changed, the world fell into today’s cruelty with hate and violence which starts with painful-penis sex. But someday, I hope, it will come again.”
“A world without men?”
“Why not?” Harumi gazes out the window at the new day.
“But babies?"
“All we need is sperm not penises.”
“How can you get pregnant without, you know …?”
“Easy,” says Harumi going on to describe artificial insemination.
“But babies?"
“All we need is sperm not penises.”
“How can you get pregnant without, you know …?”
“Easy,” says Harumi going on to describe artificial insemination.
Kimi makes wry face. ”Don’t sound like fun.”
“Because you are not using imagination, Kimi chan!” Harumi uses the diminutive suffix ‘chan’ to show her loving familiarity. “Another woman can inseminate; it does not need lessons: just inserting the clamp you saw me using at Ishimoto’s lecture. Then the man's semen is placed at the opening of the womb, inside vagina with an eyedropper. Well, why cannot the inseminator make love to the inseminee during insemination?”
Kimi’s eyes go wide imagining it. “Well, it could be fun but we still need man to donate.”
“Only until our scientists perfect tissue culture technique that will allow male seed cells to grow outside body. Alexis Carrel writes about that in Man the Unknown. He won the Nobel Prize so he ought to know. We could have sperm farms and we would not need men. Maybe we shall keep some in cage next to gorilla and chimpanzee with label Homo extinctus.” Harumi gets up, goes to window, stretches and takes breath of clean fragrant ocean air.
“Ah Glorious day! Let us be going.”
For next, now, click 5.24 The Mysterious Isle of Women
“Because you are not using imagination, Kimi chan!” Harumi uses the diminutive suffix ‘chan’ to show her loving familiarity. “Another woman can inseminate; it does not need lessons: just inserting the clamp you saw me using at Ishimoto’s lecture. Then the man's semen is placed at the opening of the womb, inside vagina with an eyedropper. Well, why cannot the inseminator make love to the inseminee during insemination?”
Kimi’s eyes go wide imagining it. “Well, it could be fun but we still need man to donate.”
“Only until our scientists perfect tissue culture technique that will allow male seed cells to grow outside body. Alexis Carrel writes about that in Man the Unknown. He won the Nobel Prize so he ought to know. We could have sperm farms and we would not need men. Maybe we shall keep some in cage next to gorilla and chimpanzee with label Homo extinctus.” Harumi gets up, goes to window, stretches and takes breath of clean fragrant ocean air.
“Ah Glorious day! Let us be going.”
For next, now, click 5.24 The Mysterious Isle of Women
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