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Transgender Erotica: Trans Figures
An anthology of emotional and erotic perspectives on the transsexual experience.
- GenresEroticaTransgender
245 pages, Paperback
First published March 31, 2006
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About the author
M. Christian
135 books80 followersM.Christian is - among many things - an acknowledged master of erotica with more than 400 stories in such anthologies as Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, and many, many other anthologies, magazines, and Web sites.
He is the editor of 25 anthologies including the Best S/M Erotica series, The Burning Pen, Guilty Pleasures, The Mammoth Book of Future Cops and The Mammoth Book of Tales of the Road (with Maxim Jakubowksi) and Confessions, Garden of Perverse, and Amazons (with Sage Vivant) as well as many others.
He is the author of the collections Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, The Bachelor Machine, Licks & Promises, Filthy, Love Without Gun Control, Rude Mechanicals, and Coming Together Presents M.Christian, Pornotopia, How To Write And Sell Erotica; and the novels Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Me2, Brushes, Fingers Breadth, and Painted Doll.
He is the editor of 25 anthologies including the Best S/M Erotica series, The Burning Pen, Guilty Pleasures, The Mammoth Book of Future Cops and The Mammoth Book of Tales of the Road (with Maxim Jakubowksi) and Confessions, Garden of Perverse, and Amazons (with Sage Vivant) as well as many others.
He is the author of the collections Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, The Bachelor Machine, Licks & Promises, Filthy, Love Without Gun Control, Rude Mechanicals, and Coming Together Presents M.Christian, Pornotopia, How To Write And Sell Erotica; and the novels Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Me2, Brushes, Fingers Breadth, and Painted Doll.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
January 15, 2008
Difficult to rate. About one third of the stories were absolutely amazing, clearly written by trans authors, and quite fun to read (those would get five stars).
Another third was pretty clearly written from cis authors, and even used some horrible trans and even tranny-chaser cliches. Including a whole story about "I can't figure out that person's gender," a few where narrators/characters get pronouns wrong and say transphobic things about the trans characters, and one narrator/character who tells her female-presenting partner with a woman's name to "fuck her like a man."
Sure, the character could be a genderfucker of some sort, but we've been led to see her as a trans woman. With no other indicators of what's going on, this third of the book seems highly derogatory and I found the intense transphobia to be triggering.
The other third, more or less fell somewhere in between, neither derogatory and triggering, nor wonderful and empowering.
Another third was pretty clearly written from cis authors, and even used some horrible trans and even tranny-chaser cliches. Including a whole story about "I can't figure out that person's gender," a few where narrators/characters get pronouns wrong and say transphobic things about the trans characters, and one narrator/character who tells her female-presenting partner with a woman's name to "fuck her like a man."
Sure, the character could be a genderfucker of some sort, but we've been led to see her as a trans woman. With no other indicators of what's going on, this third of the book seems highly derogatory and I found the intense transphobia to be triggering.
The other third, more or less fell somewhere in between, neither derogatory and triggering, nor wonderful and empowering.
September 23, 2012
This anthology is a mixed bag in terms of quality and knowledge of trans issues. A few stories were AWESOME, like Raven Kaldera's "Defying Normal", R. Gay's "Small Considerations" and Cait's "Rebel Without a Cock", and made me feel really good about my body. I also liked "Holes" by Patrick Califia, "Shoes" by Shaun Levin and "Overboard" by Kay Bayley. It isn't often that I read stories by people with bodies like mine and the people who love them (in non-creepy ways).
But most of the stories written by cis people were horribly objectifying and transphobic ("ooh, I'm bored with men and women: I want someone freaky!"). One story even featured two cis gay men discussing trans guys, and they ended up agreeing that cis men were better. Ugh. At first it really took me aback and hurt me: I had let my guard down, thinking it would be a trans-positive collection. The book quickly proved me wrong.
But most of the stories written by cis people were horribly objectifying and transphobic ("ooh, I'm bored with men and women: I want someone freaky!"). One story even featured two cis gay men discussing trans guys, and they ended up agreeing that cis men were better. Ugh. At first it really took me aback and hurt me: I had let my guard down, thinking it would be a trans-positive collection. The book quickly proved me wrong.
November 22, 2010
I read what I could on Google Books. I had been a fan of Annie Sprinkle, thinking that she was progressive, and an ally and all that. I read her essay in here and it made me nauseous. The way she fetishized her FtM lover was horrible, flipping pronouns left and right, and she couldn't even get his name right. Saying he was really a woman deep down was disgusting.
Don't bother reading this book.
Don't bother reading this book.
January 4, 2008
really. i need to give up on erotica. the only things in this book worth mentioning are of course the pat califia story and one other daddy/boy one that me n warren read out loud to eachother more than once minus the happy ever afer bullshit at the end...
January 24, 2008
A couple of hot moments...but quite uneven. And while the fact that this book was published is super-cool and trans-centric and all, some of the tropes in here are disrespectful and deepen the trans-as-exotic-other thing. Still worth checking into.
January 4, 2008
Not so hot.... but kinda entertaining and endearing
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