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Living as a Man by Bevis Fusha
Pashke Ograja, a woman who made an irreversible choice to lead the life of a celibate man.
I first met Pashke at a wedding in Okol in Northern Albania in l993, she was about 50 years old. Although I had read about ‘sworn virgins’ some years earlier, Pashke was the first one I met.
I studied the phenomenon through a variety of literature:
1. Travel writers who met them in the past
2. Anthropologists describing similar phenomena in other countries and
3. Genderists mostly in the US who always try to relate this kind of phemenon to a sexual preference, something that I refute, even if with changing times it may become merged with homosexuality.
This is a gender change, not a sexual change.
