The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals"The Phallus Palace "is a bold approach to the subject of female to male transexuals (FTMs). Personal testaments from FTMs and contributions from a host of others place the subject of transsexualism into a historical, medical, psychological and cultural context. Captivating photographs guide the reader from the FTMs female personae, through surgical operations, to portraits of the men whose self and public identities are finally revealed as one. Dean Kotula has worked as a documentary photographer for twenty years. Dean changed his sex from female to male under the scrutinizing eyes of 2,000 predominantly male shipyard workers while working as a machinist. The ensuing ordeal prompted him to create this book A native Minnesotan, Dean now resides in Massachusetts where he co-owns an antique business. |
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... begin adapting ourselves for inclusion . Consequently , modesty and shame about our bodies is common in American society . For the transsexual , this shame is far more extreme . Its origins aren't strictly cultural ; there is a ...
... begin a process of transi- tion with the mistaken belief that the medical technology exists to give them their fantasy of a male body . After a little education such men usually realize that the state of technolo- gy leaves much to be ...
... begin re - creating my body as male . I tend to think it was a matter of a critical mass of emotional motivation building up and then breaking through the wall of my other concerns . It was almost like I found myself adrift on the ocean ...