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What are the possibilities of pleasure when we stop labeling our desires? In Trans Pleasure, Brandon Andrew Robinson answers this seductive question by exploring the sex lives of trans women and femmes.
Centering the voices of trans women and femmes through in-depth interviews, Trans Pleasure takes us to the bedroom, to restaurants, to dating apps, and to other spaces that comprise the everyday dating experiences of trans people. Through this erotic journey, Robinson reveals how dominant understandings of sexual identities—which center desires around gender and genitals—harm trans people. They also limit how everyone can love and feel pleasure.
In shifting the focus to comfort and to trans for trans relations, this frank and ambitious book expands our thinking about love, gender, sexuality, relationships, and desire. With this bold exploration of trans pleasure, Robinson makes the provocative claim that discarding sexual identities is the path to gender liberation and true erotic freedom.
“In their provocative new book, Trans Pleasure: On Gender Liberation and Sexual Freedom, sociologist Brandon Andrew Robinson issues a bold challenge to modern social constructs: it is time to abolish sexual identities entirely.”
“Compulsory heterosexuality is thwarting pleasure & hindering gender liberation. We can change that.”
"If labels constrain what we allow ourselves to want, then expanding what we permit ourselves to experience requires either coming up with a new label or . . . abandoning them outright. Rejecting them, in Robinson's view, is a political and social act that can potentially mend the divide between queer and non-queer people by effectively pulling everyone into the same boat"
Acknowledgments
1. Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Trans Femme Existence
2. Sexual Cissexism
3. Comfort and the Paradox of Pleasure
4. t4t possibilities
5. Gender Liberation and the Abolition of Sexual Identities
Methodological Appendix A. t4t as Methods
Methodological Appendix B. Interview Guide
Notes
References
Index