In this second edition of her bestselling book, BDSM Crisis Actor Mistress Persephone Rose invites readers to explore the connection between “modern sissification and feminization kinks” and the wider Trans world.
Recent antitrans discourses have critiqued trans masculinity in particular as a site of social panic and contagion for proto-trans adolescents. In extreme cases, this is framed as a seduction. Turning “seduction” from a social danger to a benefit, this essay theorizes masc4masc t4t erotics as a type of contagious gendering. The authors discuss the coming…
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity. What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender…
How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last century when many challenged the social categories and hierarchies of race, class, and gender,…
Transvestism Around the World Limited Edition … Number One Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/transvestismarou00unse Contents: Bambi Coccinelle Carrousel Club Terry Durham Ricky René Shalimar Madame Arthur’s (Paris) Madame Arthur’s (Amsterdam)
In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut, How to Be a Good Girl, an interrogation of modern femininity and the narratives of love, desire, and violence yoked to it. The Rumpus praised Hood’s “bold vulnerability,” and Vogue named it a Best Book of 2020. In Trauma Plot,…
‘A brilliant, useful, and immensely moving book that deals a critical blow to the epistemic austerity of our times’ – Jordy Rosenberg ‘Femme’ describes a constellation of queer, gendered expressions that uproot expectations of what it means to be feminine. Building upon experiences of transformation, belonging and harm, this book is a transfeminist call for…
The Transgender Athlete: A Guide for Sports Medicine Providers presents sports medicine practitioners insights into the unique issues and concerns of transgender athletes in order to help them understand rules regarding transgender athlete participation and learn how to better provide competent care to transgender athletes. There are over 1.4 million transgender adults in the United…
Four Case studies. Transvestism is defined by Kinsey as behaviour by ‘an individual who prefers to wear the clothes of the opposite sex and who desires to be accepted in the social organization as an individual of the opposite sex’. Transsexualism refers to those cases where in addition the urge exists to undergo a sex-conversion…
Short biography of Eugen Steinach, who wrote “Physiology of the Male Sex Organs” and other works on sex glands and organs.