PEOPLE ARE STILL HAVING SEX (NOT JUST GENDER!)<\/span>: A chapter-by-chapter look at Jay Prosser\u2019s Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality<\/span>, as promised.<\/p>\n The first thing to say is that although Prosser\u2019s style is hyperacademic\u2013this was his dissertation\u2013he\u2019s much clearer than most people who write like this. I mean yeah, \u201csomatic\u201d is really the only word for somatic, but I\u2019m still not convinced that he also<\/span> needs \u201canaclitic\u201d and \u201cimbricated\u201d and \u201ccathexis.\u201d But even so, Prosser\u2019s very dry humor is actually funny and not strenuous, and he has a few word choices which are genuinely elegant: One-off uses of \u201credress\u201d and \u201cduplicity\u201d come to mind. <\/p>\n And I apologize in advance for any portion of Prosser\u2019s arguments which I misconstrue. In general he is exceptionally good at layering quotations and examples to make his points, and so this post is necessarily a lot less persuasive than his book; I\u2019m hoping to interest you guys enough that you read it (it\u2019s out of print, but I got a used copy on Amazon Marketplace fairly cheaply) but I certainly can\u2019t replicate the experience of reading it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PEOPLE ARE STILL HAVING SEX (NOT JUST GENDER!): A chapter-by-chapter look at Jay Prosser\u2019s Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality, as promised. The first thing to say is that although Prosser\u2019s style is hyperacademic\u2013this was his dissertation\u2013he\u2019s much clearer than most people who write like this. I mean yeah, \u201csomatic\u201d is really the only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n