{"product_id":"lets-not-talk-about-transgender-sex-the-erotic-erasure-of-trans-desire-sexuality-hardcover","title":"Let's (Not) Talk About (Transgender) Sex: The Erotic Erasure of Trans Desire \u0026 Sexuality - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRiki Wilchins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor decades, trans studies and queer theory have treated the trans body as a theoretical construct - a site for identity, dysphoria, and gender politics - leaving erotic realities largely unexamined. Desire, pleasure, and \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c\/i\u003e sex has been pushed to the margins, rendered almost unspeakable.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThis book challenges that silence. It asks why sexuality - once a privileged site of inquiry in queer theory - has all but vanished from trans scholarship, and what this erasure reveals about the politics of respectability, cisnormativity, and the lingering discomfort with bodies that refuse to behave \"properly.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThrough rigorous analysis and intimate narrative, the book explores how bodies do things - and how different bodies do different things - shaping possibilities for desire, sensation, and intimacy. It interrogates the cultural and academic forces that have de-sexed trans subjects, examines the aesthetic and linguistic struggles around naming and eroticizing trans bodies, and charts a path toward a trans studies that embraces the messy, fleshy, and truly human dimensions of sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth provocative and personal, this book insists that there can be no real account of gender without a reckoning with sex. It is a call to bring pleasure back into the conversation - not as an afterthought, but as a vital site of knowledge, resistance, and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRIKI WILCHINS \u003c\/b\u003eis a founder of modern transgender rights. She is the author of 15 books including \u003ci\u003eThe Second Coming: Trans Women Talk About Sex After Surgery \u003c\/i\u003e(forthcoming, 2026), \u003ci\u003eBAD INK: How the NYTimes SOLD OUT Transgender Teens \u003c\/i\u003e(2023), and \u003ci\u003eBurn the Binary! \u003c\/i\u003e(2017). Wilchins' work has been profiled in the New York Times, and TIME Magazine selected her among \"100 Civic Leaders for the 21st Century\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53425812996403,"sku":"9781350574519","price":129.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Gfyq_DgHbT9781350574519.webp?v=1780524380","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/lets-not-talk-about-transgender-sex-the-erotic-erasure-of-trans-desire-sexuality-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}