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Quantum Desire: A Sexological Analysis of Crossdreaming
Felix Conrad explores the controversial grey area where sexology meets transgender theory!
As always, Conrad starts with a real life problem. After pontificating on his blog that crossdreamers are morally obliged to inform their girlfriends of their sexuality, he gets a girlfriend and has to follow through on his own principle. Quickly discovering that his published advice on the subject doesn't work at all (a familiar occurrence in Conrad world!) he bottles it, and flees to the beach to rethink his strategy. There, he mulls over the possibilities for explaining his transgender sexuality...
transgender woman
autogynephilia
sissification
crossdreamer
transvestic fetishism
crossdresser etc.
He soon realises that despite decades of research, controversy and analysis, nobody has even managed to come up with an accepted term for a sexuality which he and millions of people share. So...Felix gets to work, and this book is the result.
It has three purposes:
1) To decide on a definitive scientific name for sexual behaviour that has been described as everything from autogynephilia to sissification, female embodiment to transgender.
2) To categorise said behaviour in purely sexological terms, examining its compatibility with various labels such as orientation, paraphilia and fetish.
3) To explore the viability of a purely sexological discourse of crossgender arousal, asking if it can ever be decoupled from transgender theory.
After this analysis, Felix ends the book with his own unique narrative of gender variant sexuality, Quantum Desire, an explanation so far out of the box you will think that either Felix has finally arrived at the dizzy heights of genius or the inescapable clutches of madness. Enjoy!
As always, Conrad starts with a real life problem. After pontificating on his blog that crossdreamers are morally obliged to inform their girlfriends of their sexuality, he gets a girlfriend and has to follow through on his own principle. Quickly discovering that his published advice on the subject doesn't work at all (a familiar occurrence in Conrad world!) he bottles it, and flees to the beach to rethink his strategy. There, he mulls over the possibilities for explaining his transgender sexuality...
transgender woman
autogynephilia
sissification
crossdreamer
transvestic fetishism
crossdresser etc.
He soon realises that despite decades of research, controversy and analysis, nobody has even managed to come up with an accepted term for a sexuality which he and millions of people share. So...Felix gets to work, and this book is the result.
It has three purposes:
1) To decide on a definitive scientific name for sexual behaviour that has been described as everything from autogynephilia to sissification, female embodiment to transgender.
2) To categorise said behaviour in purely sexological terms, examining its compatibility with various labels such as orientation, paraphilia and fetish.
3) To explore the viability of a purely sexological discourse of crossgender arousal, asking if it can ever be decoupled from transgender theory.
After this analysis, Felix ends the book with his own unique narrative of gender variant sexuality, Quantum Desire, an explanation so far out of the box you will think that either Felix has finally arrived at the dizzy heights of genius or the inescapable clutches of madness. Enjoy!
62 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 10, 2016
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