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Coming to Grips With Benign Prostate Enlargement or Prostate Cancer in Contemporary Japan: Readings From a Cancer-Self.
Am J Mens Health
June 2024
Asian Studies Programme, Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata, Japan.
This article explores how a group of 35 Japanese men comprehend and verbalize the somatic experience embedded in dealing with benign prostate enlargement, or disquiet/discomfort of developing prostate cancer. Grounded in an adaptation of the sexual scripts theorizing, a set of in-depth, semistructured individual interviews were conducted through a LINE-app videocall from 2021 to 2023. Outcomes of interview were analyzed through a conversational approach, and presented by using three axes: the body, gender, and sexuality.
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- False claims of intersex conditions have been found across various media, with 37 cases identified as false based on medical implausibility and inconsistencies.
- * Of the false claims, the majority were from natal males (26) and mostly involved transgender individuals seeking to live in a non-natal gender.
- * The motivations behind these false claims ranged from avoiding stigma related to being transgender to seeking attention or engaging in paraphilic behaviors like autogynephilia.
The failure of postmodern biopolitics: some notes on travesti beautification technologies and practices.
Cien Saude Colet
February 2024
Departamento de Antropología Social y Psicología Social, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Pozuelo de Alarcón Madrid España.
Based on the ethnographic work I conducted with a group of Brazilian travesti sex workers in Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona, this article aims to analyze how they adopt technologies to transform and beautify their bodies that question the biomedical model of our society: their bodies are not read as "docile", "healthy", or "productive" since they do not "fit into", nor pretend to fit into the dominant sexual binary. On the other hand, beauty - as a political and transformative field - is one of the main elements that travestis have to find their place in the world through their (trans)national displacements: they are self-constructing as social subjects who claim some intelligibility while they become beautiful travestis. Therefore, travestis believe that beauty is a (transitory) space of liberation that, ultimately, reveals how certain biopolitical technologies have failed to produce undisciplined bodies and beautiful travestis who - through their survival - rebel against a heteronormative power that considers that their bodies are not worthy of mourning and, consequently, "deserve to die".
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExposures to information about castration and emotional trauma before puberty are associated with men's risk of seeking genital ablation as adults.
Sex Med
April 2023
Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, 270 Great King Street, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.
Background: Little is known about childhood experiences, outcomes, and self-recollections of those men who were voluntarily castrated as adults.
Aim: The study sought to determine how learning about castration before and after 13 years of age is associated with differential childhood experiences, outcomes, and self-recollections of those who were voluntarily castrated as adults.
Methods: We designed a survey of voluntarily castrated individuals, who learned about castration before and after 13 years of age.
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