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Me:<br>The issue is not androgyny itself, but rather egalitarianism and democracy.<br><br>u201cTo answer my questions, I turned not to biology but to traditional mythu2014specifically, the myth of the androgyne, which Plato articulated in the Symposium as the foundation of his understanding of sex. The androgyne represents the primordial, complete, and immortal being, whose division gives rise to the duality of the sexes. Thus, the sexual impulse is ultimately a metaphysical driveu2014a yearning for reintegration, a striving to transcend the fragmented, conditioned state of existence and restore the absolute unity
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