What’s It Like?

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When a man switches to a woman’s body, the first thing he does is feel his breasts. The first thing a woman does in a man’s body is pee standing up. There are exceptions, of course, but those are by far the most common reactions. Margaret DeBeau, chief psychologist for the Cognitive Displacement Project, established that in tests not long after they ironed the bugs out of the Tilbey Transfer process.

Of course after their initial solo experimentation the test subjects mated like rabbits, just to see what it felt like from the other side. Margaret wasn’t concerned with that aspect of the trial. Interested, in a prurient sort of way, since she needed both hands to count the years since she had last mated like anything; and amused the first few times the subjects blushingly tried to describe their experience during the debriefing after they’d switched back to their original bodies, but she was hardly surprised. People had always wondered what their partners felt during sex. She would have been interested only if they hadn’t tried it.

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