Please keep following Topside Press! Remember that there are other resources for contemporary transmasculine identities: Bear Bergman comes to mind.
These are contemporary, perhaps near future, ways of living. What's present from the past, or in the recent past? Concepts that were confining, or fruitful, or went without saying?
Three concepts in particular to keep in mind. Later writers puncture or push back.
First, a guy with a cigar. A special type. He didn't think homosexuality required a "cure."
He gave us a complex. Or two. And a series of stages. A roadmap to the right kind of adulthood.
Thinking about immaturity. A word that does not mean what he thinks it means. Enjoy the ball.
Warning: freeze-dried. An arrow. Psychoanalytic detection. A series of tubes. Big questions.
An idea of marriage. One way to treat women's complaints.
A lot of research help (aimed at college students) on gender in Victorian Britain. Women in men's hands. Or in men's houses.
Women as men's property: Gayle Rubin. Sedgwick's Between Men. A similar contest.
Flirting with stockings. Not him. Not him.
If you or another real person (not a made-up literary character) experience unwanted sex, or violence in a relationship, you can get help.
Can intimacy be separated from money? Are sex workers doing a job? Melissa Gira Grant's essay on brothels. Robin Hustle was an escort and will be a nurse.
Sex work is a thing people do, not a thing people are. There are other jobs that most people don't want to do.
Ukeles and maintenance art. (Note the poke at Freud.)
Is there a bright line between sexy and non-sexy intimacy? Or a continuum? What makes men afraid? People aren't produce.
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