Phalloplasty, vaginoplasty, rhinoplasty

 
on 116, Preciado notes the framing that enables rhinoplasty to be considered "plastic surgery" while vaginoplasty and phalloplasty are "considered sex change operations"
 
to wit: "the nose is regulated by a pharmocopornographic power in which an organ is considered to be private property and merchandise, [whereas] the genitals are still imprisoned in a premodern, sovereign, and nearly theocrative power regime that considers them to be the property of the state and dependent on unchanging transcendental law"

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

> tagged with #trans_studies, #transfiguration, #body

> created April 10, 2024 at 3:34:48 PM


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