Visions of a contraceptive feminism

 
Preciado 231: "As a contraceptive method, feminism could have made masturbation obligatory, promulgated a sexual strike among heterosexual and fertile women, and advocated lesbianism en masse; made it obligatory to tie the Fallopian tubes at adolescence; and legalized abortion and made it free--if not permitting infanticide when necessary."
 
"it was possible, from a biotechnical point of view, to require all women who are of childbearing age to take a monthly microdose of testosterone, as both a contraceptive method and a political method of regulating gender. Such a measure would have ended once and for all sexual differentiation and the hegemony of heterosexuality."
 
[I don't love the coercive aspects of this, or the repressive force that one imagines would be called into play, but it is interesting as a thought experiment]

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

> tagged with #gender, #reproduction, #feminism

> created May 1, 2024 at 9:06:15 AM


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