"Testosterone isn't masculinity"

 
Preciado 141: "Testosterone isn't masculinity. Nothing allows us to conclude that the effects produced by testosterone are masculine. The only thing we can say is that, until now, they have as a whole been the exclusive property of cis-males."
 
Similarly: "The new metabolism of testosterone in my body wouldn't be effective in terms of masculinization without the previous existence of a political agenda that interprets these changes as an integral part of a desire--controlled by the pharmacopornographic order--for sex change."

> from Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008, translated 2013)

> tagged with #politics, #desire, #body, #masculinity

> created April 10, 2024 at 4:06:51 PM


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