Not since Chris Kraus’s "I Love Dick" has a book articulated the weird recesses of my mind so awesomely. "Testo Junkie" makes material concepts I’ve been speculating on in secret from even myself.
— Fiona
With the current rise of anti-trans rhetoric and legislation, Preciado’s mission — “to convince you that you are like me. Tempted by the same chemical abuse” — feels more pressing now than ever before. Do you depend on a daily birth control pill? Befriend Viagra to ward off your embarrassing dysfunction? Let this book serve as just another reminder that we live in an age where hormonal pharmaceutical interventions impact all of our lives — not just those of transsexuals and genderqueers.
— EmersenThis visionary book on gender and sexuality weaves together high theory and intimate memoir, with spectacular results--and the gendered body will never be the same again (Jack Halberstam).
What constitutes a real man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny.
In this penetrating analysis of gender, Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado's diaristic account of his own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on his body as well as his imagination.