“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.”
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“[He was] delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the Queen of Hierocles.”
Harry Benjamin in The Transsexual Phenomenon http://www.symposion.com/ijt/benjamin/ (1966)
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