Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
Paul B. Preciado translator: Bruce Benderson
overview
What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny.
In this penetrating analysis of gender, Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado's diaristic account of his own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on his body as well as his imagination.
contents
INTRODUCTION
1 YOUR DEATH
2 THE PHARMACOPORNOGRAPHIC ERA
3 TESTOGEL
4 HISTORY OF TECHNOSEXUALITY
5 IN WHICH THE BODY OF VD BECOMES AN ELEMENT IN AN EXPERIMENTAL CONTEXT
6 TECHNOGENDER
7 BECOMING T
8 PHARMACOPOWER
9 TESTO-MANIA
10 PORNPOWER
11 JIMI AND ME
12 THE MICROPOLITICS OF GENDER IN THE PHARMACOPORNOGRAPHIC ERA: EXPERIMENTATION, VOLUNTARY INTOXICATION, MUTATION
13 ETERNAL LIFE