Annotated Chapter 11 Page 16
Rewrote this speech quite a few times, trying to make it as clear as possible that Patrick means “feels like a girl” in the same purely-tactile sense as “feels like a cotton ball” or “feels bumpy”, not in the inner-emotional sense of “feels like a winner” or “feels happy.”
(Nor in the slightly-hungry sense of “feels like a sandwich.”)
Patrick: Master, I . . .
Of course I’m happy in this body. Because it’s the one that you want.
You’d rather walk around in public with a partner your family would approve of. That means someone who looks like a boy.
But when it comes to touching someone in private . . . you’d rather be with a partner who feels like a girl.