Lately, on UK television, their have been a whole raft of programs exploring and displaying for all to see, the life's of those people who are very unfortunate in having bizzarre physical appearances. They can be very interesting and certainly do invoke an emotional response. Plus it is always worth remembering that other people have it a lot worse than we do.

Bugger.
The spell check function in firefox isn't working.
Still, you are not stupid and, I appologise for poor spelling. Or is that speling?
Anyway. That aside.

You know the programs I mean.
Not to make light of it but they are the ones that have tittles like;
 'The Woman Who Has A Tree For A Leg' or
 'The Boy Who Has A Tin Can For A Head'.

The people who impressed me the most on these programs were the UK woman who had giant legs and the oriental chap who had skin that looked exactly like tree bark.

There is just no way we can understand the difficulties, physical, psychological and emotional, that these folk go through on a day to day basis.
And they live with the knowledge that the next day, month, year or, if they are lucky/unlucky, the next decade will be no better for them.

But I can't help wondering how much of my interest in this type of program is just pure voyerism. 'Whatch the freaks'. That type of thing.

Part of our make up is to have an interest in the bizzarre and even the downright terrifying. That's why horror films are so popular.

But, deep down, I think we all know the programs we would really like to see. The ones that would guarantee a huge audience.
Ones called 'The man who has a penis for a nose'.
Or, 'The woman who has a vagina for a mouth'.

Imagine that. A penis for a nose.
I don't like the sound of that one.
Suppose you got a cold.
No, thats just too much to even imagine.
Well, it is for rampantly hot blooded hetrosexual man as myself.
No. Honest!

However, 'The Woman Who Has A Vagina For A Mouth', raises far more interesting variabilities.
Imagine it was your girlfriensd?
How would you feel every time a male friend gave her a quick peck on the lips?
I, for one would not like it at all.
But that would be unlikely to happen as I guess I would be, pretty much anyway, permanantly kissing her myself.

Or, look at the worst case scenario. Suppose, if you will gentlemen, that you had a penis for a nose and a vagina for a mouth?

The only good thing about that would be the copious hours you could spend licking your lips.

Any other possibilitis are, frankly, horrendous.

It seems that the possibilities of 'differences' as a result of various genes switching on and off during fetal (now I know for sure that is spelled wrong) developement are, almost endless.

Thank god, even though he doesn't exist, I am as I am.
Thank god, even though he is not there, that I am so fortunate.

But, is this fascination, we have, with physical oddities a genuine concern or just us wanting to view freaks?

I suspect, for me anyway, there is a bit of both involved.

What do you think?