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THE billboard on level one of the two-storey, triangle shaped building reads “Lady, Oil and Midget Wrestling”.

The billboard above it on level two reads: “Mixed Nuts No Cover Charge — No Show Charge — Birdies Martinis — The Entertainment Capital and Only Ladyboy Show in Manila”. The building sits on a major four lane Manila highway, for everyone to see.

I walked up a flight of stairs and into an air-conditioned club.

It’s 1am. There’s a Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on multiple TV screens, and Major Lazer’s Bubble Butt is playing on the speakers. A beautiful woman, about 21 years old, was doing the most erotic lip sync I’ve ever seen on the spotlit dancefloor.

She was wearing pale blue stilettos, denim shorts and a cowboy hat: hypnotising a crowd of half-a-dozen white men with the spinning white cotton string of her nipple tassels.

The performer’s name, I learn, is Mariel. She’s a star of the 13-member Mixed Nuts team. She is one of seven with breasts and a penis, two of the 13 have breasts and a vagina, four are trans women who had never had any surgery or taken hormones.

Mixed Nuts is not a drag venue. It’s a bar that caters for men who are sexually attracted to transgender women and feminised men.

Mixed Nuts bar in Manila. Picture: Myladyboygirlfriend.comSource:Supplied

“Ladyboys have great bodies, they are normally better looking than regular women, they really are,” the Australian man I’ll call David said as we sat in a soft-padded booth facing the dancefloor. He’s 42, and looks like a ginger Piers Morgan.

“I just think they are beautiful, they have this exaggerated femininity. I come to Manila for relaxation one weekend a month. I’ve had sex five times today with five different people, three women and two transgender,” David — who wanted to keep his identity a secret — told me.

“In the Philippines I can walk down the street with a trans woman and nobody really cares what gender your partner is,” he said. “It’s more relaxed here.”

GAMP: POSSIBLY MORE COMMON THAN GAY

David’s playing style is referred to by sexologists as gynandromorphophilia (often shortened to GAMP). But it’s not a medical condition, it’s just a term for people attracted to people born biologically male, but who look, act, or are women, this includes cross-dressing men, drag queens and transgender women.

And GAMP is a very common orientation too.

Porn download data suggests there are more men attracted to trans women than there are men attracted to other men.

Mixed Nuts bar in Manila. Picture: Myladyboygirlfriend.comSource:Supplied

“I guess I’m a variety of bisexual. I like trans women and women, I am not attracted to men — not at all,” David said. “I come to Manila because the trans women here are beautiful. But I am not really ready to explain this part of my life to friends, and more especially my family. I’ll have people asking: ‘Why, why, why?’ and people who think I’ve been living some kind of lie because I present as straight.”

Before I went to Mixed Nuts, I had done some reading.

I’d looked at a study by Dr Ogi Ogas, an American computational neuroscientist. He said his analysis of anonymous internet histories indicated that those who watched trans porn almost never watched man-man gay porn — they tended to watch heterosexual porn as well.

Similarly, not that long ago, researchers at America’s Northwestern University attached penis enlargement censors to a group of male research subjects as each one spent time in a room watching a variety of porn.

The researchers found that trans-attracted men were just as likely to get an erection when watching heterosexual porn as a heterosexual identifying man, and the trans-attracted men didn’t usually get erections when watching gay porn. It also found that the men who got erections watching the gay porn rarely didn’t get erections watching trans porn.

That said, at Mixed Nuts I also learned the difference between “straight” and “gay”, even “trans” and “gay” in the Philippines is not the same as we tend to understand it in Australia.

Let me explain.

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GAY, STRAIGHT AND THE IN-BETWEEN

So it was just after 2.15am and I was talking to a guy in his late-40s from Britain who I’ll call Martin.

“I come to Manila rather than Bangkok because they speak better English here. I really enjoy the company of ladyboys, I love that they have a unique perspective on things in the face of so much difficulty,” Martin said.

Mixed Nuts bar in Manila. Picture: Myladyboygirlfriend.comSource:Supplied

Then I was interrupted by a tall, dark-skinned trans-Barbie doll who tapped my shoulder very politely asked: “Do you want a blow job?”

I explained that I am gay, And she said that didn’t matter because “I am really a boy, I don’t have breasts and I have a cock”.

And she said: “Straight and gay men sex me”.

A sales pitch? Perhaps — the Philippines is dirt poor and the name of the game at Mixed Nuts is to get white men to buy drinks.

But her comment made me wonder a few other things, like how Martin was attracted to trans woman who didn’t take hormones — therefore didn’t have breasts — but wasn’t attracted to say, very feminine gay men.

“Well most of the trans women I date in the Philippines don’t take hormones, but I am attracted to them and I am not attracted to men. It’s a strange thing, I know,” he told me. “What can I say? The difference is that a ladyboy has no body hair and has a higher voice, they wear perfume, they look like women, very feminine, certainly more woman than man.”

Then the 3.36am curve-ball: we were joined at the table by Valarie. She knew she was beautiful; with her hair piece, perfect skin and black contact lenses, there was something even a little bit humanoid about her. She told me her boyfriend, an American living in Vietnam, “is a GAAAY.”

“How do you mean?” I asked.

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Vienna breathed in with her nose, lent in, and whispered “because he wants to get a vagina.”

Oh that old story: boys meets girl, girl has a penis, boys likes penis so much he wants to get a vagina. I guess that settles it all then: men are from Mars, women are from Venus, but we are really all humanoid aliens secretly controlled by an intergalactic illuminati. Or maybe I was just asking too many questions.

Mixed Nuts bar in Manila. Picture: Myladyboygirlfriend.comSource:Supplied

NO PARADISE FOR TRANS WOMEN

I’ve often heard some of my transgender friends complain about being treated like a dirty fetish — on one occasion with make-up running everywhere because of her tears and broken heart.

American writer, TV host and transgender activist Janet Mock writes about this problem as a “pervasive ideology says that trans women are shameful, that trans women are not worthy of being seen and that trans women must remain a secret — invisible and disposable”.

That said, while it’s not surprising men travel to Asia to explore their desires for the third sex when it’s still a source of shame in Western countries, it’s important to note that discrimination and violence against transgender women remains common in the Philippines.

A Spanish colony for many hundreds of years, pre-colonial women-led Filipino tribes gave transgender woman roles as Shamans or community leaders.

The Spaniards by contrast had been subjecting gay men to capital punishment during the Inquisition and banned any form of cross-dressing back in their home kingdom (even in the theatre and during cultural events).

This was just before they sailed into and then claimed the 7000 island archipelago. Unsurprisingly, the status of trans people quickly plummeted.

It was hard not to think of the case of Jennifer Laude, 26, the Filipino killed by American marine Joseph Scott Pemberton. After Pemberton’s lawyers first tried to argue there was no evidence Pemberton killed her, they then argued he did kill her — but only after realising she was trans in the hotel room. Therefore, he told the court, he felt “repulsed” and “feared he would be raped” — so he strangled her to death.

Jennifer Laude transgender murder story. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

epa05050862 Convicted US Marine Lance Corpora Joseph Scott Pemberton (C) is escorted to his detention cell upon arrival at Camp Aguinaldo at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines, 01 December 2015. A Philippine court convicted a US Marine of homicide for killing a transgender Filipino in a motel in a northern city last year. Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton, who has been detained at the Philippine military's headquarters, was sentenced to up to 12 years in prison. Laude was found strangled in the bathroom of a motel in Olongapo City in October 2014. EPA/TED ALJIBE/POOLSource:AP

And while we didn’t hear about it in Australia, within the same week two other trans women were murdered in the Philippines by fellow Filipinos.

‘I SHOULD HAVE JUST RAN WITH MY TRANSGENDER ATTRACTION’

It was 4.18am and Martin was telling me he “couldn’t give a shit” what people think of his attraction to transgender women. But he has a wife (“a stale relationship ... we haven’t had sex in six years”) and child.

“I couldn’t leave my wife for a trans woman, she would find that so humiliating, then I would have to explain it to my kid who is only 11,” he told me in a drunken, sombre tone — a strange contrast to the camp, fun rendition of Greased Lightning being performed on the dancefloor.

“I met my wife not long after I lost my virginity which I didn’t lose until I was in my early 20s. Looking back now, 30-odd years ago, I should have just ran with my transgender attraction,” Martin said, pushing out a deep breath.

“I should have found a transgender woman and had a serious relationship with her, then I probably wouldn’t have the complications I have today.”

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Philippi City, Barbour County, WV

Photo: Philippi WV from across the Tygart River Valley. The Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Photographed by User:Valerius Tygart (own work), 2007, [cc-by-3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons, accessed March, 2017.

• Post Office: Philippi
• Zip Code: 26416

The Philippi Historic District [‡] was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

The Philippi historic district is located in the town of Philippi which also serves as the county seat of Barbour County, West Virginia. The district contains resources dating from the mid-19th century, late 19th century, and early 20th century. It extends from the west end of the Philippi Covered Bridge south along U.S. 119 approximately 100 yards to include the Blue and Gray Park to Shooks Run to its confluence with the Tygart Valley River. From that point the district boundary follows the west bank of the Tygart Valley River southeast to a point west of the old Teter House, then turns east across the river directly behind Rite Aid (non-contributing) and the Old Teter House. The district boundary proceeds behind the homes located on the west side of south Main Street to Wilson Street, and includes the properties on both sides of Wilson Street. It then continues behind the houses on south Main Street to Wabash and Oak streets where it turns northwest to include the properties on the east side of south Main to Wolfe Street. It moves up Wolfe Street to Walnut Street and includes the properties located on the northeast side of Walnut Street to Court Street. It then proceeds northeast on Court Street to High Street and turns northwest to include the structures on the northeast side of High Street to Pike Street where it angles west to the corner of Walnut Alley and Walnut Street. It then follows Walnut Street back to Pike Street to Main Street to include the Presbyterian Church and the B & O Railroad Station/Philippi Museum and the Philippi Covered Bridge. The district includes all of the structures located within the boundaries as described above.

Philippi is typical of a rural Appalachian community with many small commercial businesses, public buildings, community churches, and private residences most of which were built at the turn of the century when the community was at the height of its opulence. Although Philippi has suffered the economic decline shared by many West Virginia communities the buildings have been maintained well and lend a high degree of authenticity to this charmingly nostalgic community.

When traveling south on U.S. Route 250 the visitor first encounters a wooden covered bridge, one of the most symbolic images of the town's historical heritage. Built in 1852, the bridge, being the only northern entrance to the town, served as a vital strategic position in the battle of June 3, 1861.

Generally recognized as the first land battle of the Civil War, it was at this bridge that Union forces led by Col. Benjamin Kelley met and defeated Confederate forces under Col. George A. Porterfield. The clash has been affectionately dubbed by Union sympathizers and local historians as the 'Philippi Races.'

After crossing the bridge, the road swings right on Main Street to the heart of the commercial district. Main Street is lined with many commercial buildings dating back to 1900. These building represent Italianate, Classical Revival, and International (Williams building) architectural styles. The commercial section of the town extends southeast on Main Street about five blocks then bends south where the residential section begins. The residential section of the district is lined with many prestigious Queen Anne (Creed House, Califf House, Mentzer House) and Italianate (Teter House) houses constructed of a variety of materials including stone, brick, and wood. The residential section of Main Street extends approximately four blocks, to Oak Street. Along these blocks lived many of the merchants and professionals who maintained places of business and offices in downtown Philippi.

Returning up Main Street, the district cuts east on Wolfe Street to Walnut Street where it includes many residential dwellings that date from c. 1859 to c. 1920 of the Queen Anne, Greek Revival, Georgian Revival (Schwirian House), and Four Square style. These homes are well maintained and have experienced more of less constant occupancy since the time of construction. At the corner of Mason and Main Streets there stands the old Philippi Post Office which is an excellent example of Federal architecture, and on Walnut Street directly across from the Court House stands an Italianate commercial building (Barbour Democrat). There is a charming, rough-cut, stone battlement wall that extends along the sidewalk for most of Walnut Street and on Pike Street there is a Methodist Church of handsome Gothic style (Crim Methodist Church).

The district includes four structures already listed on the National Register: the Railroad Depot/Museum, the Chessar House, the Barbour County Courthouse, and the covered bridge.

The Philippi Historic District is located along the Tygart Valley River, a major scenic asset. The district's boundary encompasses a significant portion of the river's northern and southern banks as a historic vista which provides a backdrop for the town and Philippi Covered Bridge. Another picturesque quality of the town is the court house square. Centered in the community and dominated by the tall, stone Romanesque-style courthouse, the town square presents a historic green space and focal point of government and business enterprise.

The Philippi Historic District is composed of commercial and residential resources that form, under Criterion C, a significant ensemble of 19th and early 20th century architecture in a small Appalachian county seat centered about a distinctive town square. These resources include a highly significant structure, the 1852 Philippi covered bridge, and street furniture such as iron fences and low stone retaining walls. The historic district has achieved additional significance under Criterion A as the site of the first land battle of the American Civil War, and as the focal point in and about the town square of long-standing political and governmental operations of the town and Barbour County.

Philippi, the county seat of Barbour County, is located on the Tygart Valley River, named after David Tygart, an early settler in the Beverly area, and was chartered in 1844 and incorporated in 1905. The first settlers of the area were Richard Cotteral and Charity Talbot, and their mother. They settled on Hacker's Creek two miles northwest of the present town of Philippi in 1780. The first settlement on the present site of the town was built in 1780 by William Anglin when he located his cabin on the track of 400 acres he owned. The place, initially called Anglin's Ford, passed through the hands of John Wilson, Daniel Booth, Judge Duncan, Eli Butcher, Elmore Hart, Thomas H. Height, and William Wilson, who, in 1843, laid out the plan for the town of Philippi. Under the ownership of Daniel Booth in 1800, the town's name was changed to Booth's Ferry. The ferry played an important part in transportation across the river until the covered bridge was built in 1852. Meanwhile, the town again changed hands and at the time Barbour County was formed in 1843, it belonged to William F. Wilson and William Shaw.

The town was renamed Philippi for Phillip Pendleton Barbour, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. It was originally to be named Phillipa -- the feminine form of Phillip in conformity with the Latin language. But because of misspellings and misunderstanding of the origin of the name (confusing it with the ancient city in Macedonia) the city was finally named Philippi.

The first land battle of the Civil War was fought here on June 3, 1861 and is known as the 'Philippi Races' because of the speed with which the Confederate forces under Colonel George A. Porterfied retreated when routed at dawn by Federal troops under Colonel B. F. Kelley. The attack was launched by the Federals to protect and retain control of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the main line of communication between Washington and the West.

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Philippi is also the home of Alderson-Broaddus College, a co-educational Baptist affiliated institution established in 1873.

The Philippi Historic District includes the town square, a tree shaded parcel circumscribed by Main Street to the southwest, Church Street to the northwest, Walnut Street to the northeast, and Court Street to the southeast. This significant green space is dominated by the Barbour County Courthouse (1903-05), a monumental Romanesque-style stone building designed by Uniontown, Pa., architect J. Charles Fulton. Within this building and around the square the workings of government witnessed the recording of deeds, probating wills, assessing property values, collecting taxes, and enforcing the laws that have affected the lives of the people of Philippi and Barbour County for three-quarters of a century. The Philippi town square attracted along its periphery numerous banking and legal interests. Few West Virginia communities possessed town squares, though those at Elizabeth, Wirt County, and Harrisville, Ritchie County, like the square at Philippi, are centered with tall masonry courthouses.

Surrounding the courthouse square is a fine group of commercial buildings and detached brick and frame residences. Many of the best houses were built by Philippi's most important citizens who owned downtown businesses or walked to banks, law offices, or government jobs near the town square. Clearly the largest and most diverse collection of such buildings in Barbour County, north-central West Virginia builders constructed mostly two and three-story commercial blocks, many of red brick with prominent metal or wood cornices. Brick corbeling, fretwork, and dogtooth patterns abound. High style buildings, such as the Neo Classical Revival-style CB & T Williams Building, next to the square at Church and Main, is an example of the more expensive buildings on choice real estate. While many Philippi buildings were constructed by builders and contractors from plan books, others were designed by professional architects, such as J. Charles Fulton, whose Barbour County Court House is one of the state's finest. Professional architectural services, when needed, come from regional cities like Clarksburg.

Among several of the finer-houses of Philippi are the following. Biographical sketches of their owners are included to illustrate the importance of the residences.

Judge Samuel Woods (1822-1897/112 S. Main Street) was born in East Canada and was graduated from Allegheny College in 1846. He then became the principal of Morgantown Academy in West Virginia and studied law in Pittsburg. He located in Philippi in 1848. In 1886 he received his Doctor of Laws degree. A southern sympathizer, he was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention and in 1881 was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia and served until 1889. He was one of the founders of West Virginia Wesleyan College and was president of its Board of Trustees until his death, in 1897. He married Isabelle Neeson and had three sons, all of whom became lawyers, Frank J. Hopkins, and Samuel Van Horn. They also had three daughters. He, along with others, organized the Grafton and. Greenbrier Railroad Company and was the first President of that corporation.

Frank Woods (1850-1900/125 Court Street) was born and raised in Philippi and was graduated from West Virginia University. He practiced law for some years in Grafton and moved to Baltimore where he died in 1900.

John Hopkins Woods (1853-1921/39 S. Main Street) was born in Philippi. He spent two years at West Point Military Academy and graduated from West Virginia University. He was admitted to the bar in 1879. He died on October 25, 1921, in Buckhannon.

Samuel Van Horn Woods was born in Philippi in 1857, (121 S. Main Street). He studied law with his father and brothers in Philippi. In 1892 he was Chairman of the West Virginia delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Kansas City. In 1910, he was elected a member of the State Senate where he was unanimously elected president of that body. In 1916, he was the Democratic nominee for Congress from the Second Congressional District. He was one of the founders of the Citizens National Bank of Philippi in 1922 and was a member of its Board of Directors until his death. He was president of the bank for seventeen years. He was married to Mollie Strickler and had one daughter, Ruth Neeson Woods.

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Alston Gordon Dayton (1857-1920/102 S. Walnut) a native of Philippi, served six terms in Congress. He was graduated from West Virginia University in 1878. He studied law with his father, Spencer Dayton and began his practice in Philippi. He was Prosecuting Attorney of Upshur County for one year and Barbour County for four years. In 1894, Dayton was elected to Congress and was re-elected in 1896,1898,1900, 1902, and 1904.

Arthur Spencer Dayton (1887-1948/102 S. Walnut Street) was born in Philippi, Son of Alston Gordon Dayton. He was graduated from West Virginia University in 1907 with a law degree and received the M.A. degree from Yale University in 1909. An active Republican, he was an alternate to the National Convention in 1912 as well as Chairman of the Second District Congressional Convention in 1916. He is known for his published contributions in both literature and law. He was married to Ruth Woods, daughter of Samuel V. Woods in 1916.

Ruth Woods Dayton (102 S. Walnut Street) was born in Philippi in 1894 and was a writer, making contributions to West Virginia literature. Mrs. Dayton became interested in the Greenbrier when she was at Lewisburg Seminary, now Greenbrier College, and in 1948, built a home in Lewisburg. She established the Daywood Art Gallery in Lewisburg which displays paintings, etchings, and art objects which she and her husband liked to collect. The Daywood Art Gallery has become part of the Huntington Galleries. She was a member of the West Virginia Historical Society.

William T. Ice (1840-1908/31 S. Main Street) was born in Marion County and was a Legislator and circuit Judge. He read law at Fairmont and was admitted to the bar in Philippi where he established his practice. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Barbour County, became a Delegate in 1875, and in 1880, was elected Judge of the Circuit Court of Barbour, Tucker, Randolph, Preston, and Tyler Counties. Following his term, he resumed private practice until his death. He married Columbia Jarvis and they had five daughters and one son, William T. Jr., who became a Legislator in the 1909-1911 term.

David W. Gall (112 S. Main Street) was born in Barbour County in 1851. He married Hennie Reger and they had three children. His ancestors were prominent among the pioneer settlers of the county. In 1873, he began a newspaper, the Philippi Plaindealer. He also studied law and in 1880, he was admitted to the bar and set up practice locally.

W. T. George (31 S. Main Street) was a successful lawyer and businessman in Philippi for many years and was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Barbour County in 1900.

E. H. Crim was a prominent businessman and president of the First National Bank of Philippi. Crim was very influential.

Charles M. Murphy served as Prosecuting Attorney of Barbour County in 1900. He was also Mayor of Philippi in 1903.

Fred O. Blue (119 S. Main Street) was elected State Senator in 1904 where he served until he was appointed State Tax Commissioner by Governor Glasscock.

Charles F. Teter (105 S. Main Street) was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Barbour County in 1882 and a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1908. He was a prominent lawyer and businessman who served as secretary and treasurer of the Philippi Coal Mining Company.

Philippi is the only city in West Virginia to have two of its residents serve concurrent terms as Speaker of the House of Delegates and President of the State Senate. In 1911, W. T. George was Speaker of the House, while Sam Woods served as President of the Senate.

Period of Significance

The period of significance begins with construction of the Philippi Covered Bridge (1852), the town's most significant structure, and ends in 1940. Little new construction occurred in Philippi during the Depression, although several International and Art Deco-style buildings appeared at the end of the decade of the 1930's.

1. Adapted from: Student Class of Dr. James Daddysman, Alderson-Broaddus College, Philippi Historic District, Philippi W.V., nomination document, 1990, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Washington, D.C.

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