Self-Organizing Men

More Masculinities, More of the Time by Aren Aizura

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Well, I do, sometimes. Have a cock, I mean. Any trans man will tell you that he certainly has a cock, maybe more than one, and he’ll be rightly offended if you told him he didn’t. Much of the extant writing about sex from a trans masculine perspective has detailed the numerous ways in which a FtM or a tranny boy can fuck with a cock. Use your imagination. Silicon, rubber, penis pumping, metoidioplasty, phalloplasty: these are the usual options listed. And these options work well, mostly. But sometimes it seems as if there’s a little pressure to declaim, loudly, the pleasures and the advantages of having that kind of cock and a side-stepping of the angst and difficulty and plain, crappy, despairing envy that comes with being born not-male in a manifestly female body. For me, at least, the notion of having a cock also describes a lack, a wish, an impossibility. (Self-Organizing Men, page 15)

Aren Z. Aizura is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. He’s currently completing a Ph.D. on transness and travel and maintains a weblog at goingsomewhere.blogsome.com.


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