{"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), \u003cb\u003eCiara Cremin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAbraham Weil\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\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":46440071495877,"sku":"9781350574519","price":134.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/VEqfLd-fv-9781350574519.webp?v=1782023452","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/lets-not-talk-about-transgender-sex-the-erotic-erasure-of-trans-desire-sexuality-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}