Sentence:  There is a kind of aesthetic masturbation here akin to Elmer's love of impregnable, virginal <WSD>epicene</WSD> women. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of indeterminate sex, whether asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; of a human face, intermediate in form between a man's face and a woman's face.