The cum shot: trans men and visual economies of ejaculation

Edelman, Elijah Adiv

doi:10.1080/23268743.2015.1056632

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“…Notably, the reduction of body image dissatisfaction may not be the case for nonbinary or trans folx, who might experience body image dissatisfaction when viewing a range of gendercoded bodies. Indeed, this area would be a fruitful subject for future study, as a thorough database search located only one article investigating how trans men engaged with pornographic representations of trans men's genitals, and how these representations (and the viewers' reactions) both reproduced and challenged hegemonic, functional genital definitions of maleness (Edelman, 2015).…”

Section: Male Homoerotic Media Does Not Objectify Womenmentioning

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Sexual Subversives or Lonely Losers? Discourses of Resistance and Containment in Women's Use of Male Homoerotic Media

Cormier¹

2022

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Very little academic work to date has investigated women’s use of male homoerotic media (for notable exceptions, see Marks, 1996; McCutcheon & Bishop, 2015; Neville, 2015; Ramsay, 2017; Salmon & Symons, 2004). The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the potential role of male homoerotic media, including gay pornography, slash fiction, and Yaoi, in facilitating women’s sexual desire, fantasy, and subjectivity – and the ways in which this expansion is circumscribed by dominant discourses regulating women’s gendered and sexual subjectivities. The dissertation begins with a review of the existing scholarship on women, pornography, and male homoerotic media, followed by an in-depth analysis of online texts discussing women’s use of these media. The analysis explores what subject positions are (un)available to women who use these media. Using a Foucauldian, feminist poststructuralist discourse analytic framework, online editorial articles and internet forum discussions were explored using an immersion/crystallization approach, revealing three broad thematic queries posed by online interlocutors: a) whether women as a generalized category use male homoerotic media, b) establishing boundaries constructing and constraining a normative woman user, and c) interrogating why women are drawn to male homoeroticism. A variety of discourses were deployed pertaining to each of these themes, some of which served to align women’s use with dominant heterosexual, patriarchal, postfeminist, and neoliberal imperatives, while others subverted these imperatives and broadened the availability of sexual subjectivities for women. The tensions between these competing discourses mark male homoerotic media as a fertile site of resistance and expansion of sexual power and possibility for women.

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Section: Male Homoerotic Media Does Not Objectify Womenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexual Subversives or Lonely Losers? Discourses of Resistance and Containment in Women's Use of Male Homoerotic Media

Cormier¹

2022

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“…Without more detailed and candid follow-up questions about erogenous and orgasmic experience, we cannot know for sure whether the shaft stimulation by those patients includes deliberate (targeted) rhythmic pressure on the embedded clitoris. Trans men often prefer to use conventionally male-associated terms (shaft) while avoiding female-associated terms (clitoris), which might lead to imprecise (only anatomically, not experientially) client reportage, including where their orgasms are stimulated and felt (see Zimman, 2014;Edelman, 2015). This is not to insist that clitoral-focused stimulation necessarily delimits the orgasm to the clitoral site.…”

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“…The trans man can append these dynamics of the inclusive penis by imagining his penis's erection, its swelling, stiffening, pulsating, and ejaculating. In his study of trans men viewers of XTube, Edelman (2015) reported how trans men "phenomenologically manage" their genitals to "destabilize hegemonic notions of maleness" (p. 150), for example, by "framing vaginal secretions in the same manner as ejaculation" (p. 157). As Gallese (2016) explains, "Motor imagery does qualify as a further form of embodied simulation, since it implies reusing our motor apparatus to imagine actions that are not actual, and to simulate situations that are not real" (p. 241).…”

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Phantom Penis: Extrapolating Neuroscience and Employing Imagination for Trans Male Sexual Embodiment

Straayer

2020

Studies in Gender and Sexuality

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This article investigates transgender men's phantom penis experience with respect to several contexts: historical reportage and medical explanations of phantom limbs and phantom penises following amputation; body dysphoria and "melancholic strength"; all renditions of trans penis including the testosterone-morphed clitoris; phenomenology and prosthetic incorporation; the neurobiology of metoidioplasty and phalloplasty; and neuroscience research on cortical mapping, hard-wired gender, proprioception, brain plasticity, epiphenomenal orgasm, the rubber hand illusion (RHI), virtual reality (VR) embodiment, and mirror neurons. Although a unique phantom instantiation, trans men's phantom penises are instructively related to congenital aplasia, visual and motor neural simulation, and cis men's phantom penises. I examine three aspects of trans men's phantom penis: phantom presence of a penis, phantom penile erogenous sensation, and the volitional phantom penis. An emphasis on function over visibility, pleasure over presence, and synthesis over staidness enables an understanding of phantom penis sensation as the neurological underpinning of all erogenous penile perception and therefore a desirable asset for trans men's sexuality. In that vein, cognitive imagination is deployed to postulate volitional phantom penises.To become thus again conscious of a ghostly bit of yourself which had been laid for years must certainly be somewhat surprising to the least emotional of men.-Silas Weir Mitchell, "Phantom Limbs," 1871 CONTACT Chris Straayer

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“…(Deterding and Walz, 2014: 47, 51, 52).UCGP is the ultimate demonstration of this revolt: in its creation by users, its hard-core content and its pirating of established video game characters and scenarios, it rejects top-down media ownership. The parodic status of UCGP, with its ludicrous amplifications of common porn film features such as penetration and money shots (Attwood, 2007; Edelan, 2015) and its bizarre sexual reimaginings of familiar video games, further undercuts the media from which it draws. This drive to undermine the values and meanings of hegemonic media is a well-established facet of user-created content.…”

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Computer-generated pornography and convergence: Animation and algorithms as new digital desire

Saunders

2019

Convergence

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The cum shot: trans men and visual economies of ejaculation

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

Sexual Subversives or Lonely Losers? Discourses of Resistance and Containment in Women's Use of Male Homoerotic Media

Sexual Subversives or Lonely Losers? Discourses of Resistance and Containment in Women's Use of Male Homoerotic Media

Phantom Penis: Extrapolating Neuroscience and Employing Imagination for Trans Male Sexual Embodiment

Computer-generated pornography and convergence: Animation and algorithms as new digital desire

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