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Also called "Fon Amazons", the Mino/Ahosi were an all-female corps of soldiers who could fight as well as men on the battlefield. Is it true that they were same-sex attracted? Such claims appear in Blackwood & Wieringa's (1999) Sapphic Shadows , in which they state: "The Amazons [Mino/Ahosi] fought in battle and were renowned for their prowess; it was said that no Amazon ever died with a wound in her back. The most attractive of them seduced enemy chiefs for reconnaissance purposes. Karsch-Haack mentions that these Amazons, who were not allowed to marry and have children, had hetaerae (female attendants or courtesans) at their disposal to serve them sexually (1911:480)." This description of "hetaerae"  originates in the writings of Richard Francis Burton. "The Dahoman is essentially a polygynist; and the History is correct in asserting “The Dahoman women do not admit the embraces of their husbands during pregnancy, nor at the time of sucklin...

Amba: A Saga of Revenge Female-to-male gender transformations appear in myths across the globe. My favorite one of them all is probably Shikhandi ( शिखण्डी,  Śikhaṇḍī) , who appears in the Sanskrit epic  Mahābhārata. Born female, Shikhandi  is the reincarnation of Amba , destined to transform into a man in order to bring about the death of Bhishma.  Amba  was the oldest daughter of the King of Kashi . She, along with her two younger sisters, was won in a contest by Bhishma, who obtained them to marry them to  Vichitravirya. However, Amba  was secretly in love with the King of Salva , and thus begs Bhishma to allow her to marry him. Bhishma allows this, but Amba  is brutally rejected by the King of Salva . Humiliated, Amba  retreats to the woods to live out her life as an ascetic. The loss of her marriage symbolizes the loss of Amba's  womanhood, and in her grief she   blames  Bhishma for this loss. Amba's  desire for ...