Base Desires and Bodily Pleasures, or Much Ado About Nutting : A Collection of Trans Erotica

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Mrak, Elliot

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2023-11-01

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The author introduces an original collection of short fiction with the following statement: “My goal is to create a piece that is radical in its frivolity, that rejoices in sex and sexuality, and is unafraid and unashamed to embrace queer and trans eroticism as empowering. So much of trans existence is overwritten by fear and uncertainty, and in response I want to create something that brings myself (and hopefully others) joy. I believe that a much easier project would have been a research project into why academia can be so sex-averse, why we do not take pornography to be an art form, and why we need to take sexual/sensual/pornographic/erotic literature more seriously. For me, it would be a much easier task to write an essay explaining why it is important to create joyful trans porn than it will be for me to actually create said joyful trans porn. We are conditioned to feel shame about sex and our bodies. I would argue that, for trans folks, bodily and sexual shame is pushed tenfold. According to an open source site called Trans Legislation Tracker, there are currently 359 active bills across 49 states that are attempting to limit the rights of trans people1, with many of those focusing on the idea that trans people are sexually violent and inherently predatory. This perpetuation of denigration and sexual shame by our elected governments is revolting, and the best way that I can think of to spit in the face of that is to write joyful trans erotica. (If you just laughed, that’s okay. I’m laughing too). I want the culmination of my under-graduate education to be something empowering and joyful, uncomfortable and difficult. I want to work past the shame I have been taught. I want to create something that will bring other trans folks happiness, and maybe help them kill their own shame.”

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xiv, 45 p.

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