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Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era Paperback – September 17, 2013

by Paul B. Preciado (Author), Bruce Benderson (Translator)

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This visionary book on gender and sexuality weaves together high theory and intimate memoir, with "spectacular" results—"and the gendered body will never be the same again" (Jack Halberstam).

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.

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The Feminist Press at CUNY
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September 17, 2013
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5.5 x 1 x 7.9 inches
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9781558618374
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Testo Junkie is an arresting hybrid work: a philosophical treatise and a literary homage embedded in a sexually explicit drug diary addressed to a ghost. Preciado’s prose is psychedelic, hyperbolic maybe, but exciting, persuasive, and even consoling. —Johanna Fateman

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"Testo Junkie is an arresting hybrid work: a philosophical treatise and a literary homage embedded in a sexually explicit drug diary addressed to a ghost. Preciado’s prose is psychedelic, hyperbolic maybe, but exciting, persuasive, and even consoling." —Johanna Fateman, Bookforum

“Testo Junkie is a wild ride. Preciado leaves the identity politics of taking T to others, and instead, in the tradition of William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker, and Jean Genet, he conducts a wild textual experiment. The results are spectacular . . . The gendered body will never be the same again.” —Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure

“Paul B. Preciado’s brilliant book oscillates between high theory and the surging rush of testosterone. Flush with elegant theoretical formulations, lascivious sex narratives, and astute histories of gender, Testo Junkie is a key text to comprehend the deep interconnectedness of sex and drugs today.” —José Esteban Muñoz, author of Cruising Utopia

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1558618376
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Feminist Press at CUNY; English-Language Edition (September 17, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781558618374
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1558618374
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.07 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 7.9 inches

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Hil Mp

It's a WGS must-read in the same way Finnegans Wake is a Modernist must-read

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2019

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That doesn't make it any less pretentious or exhausting.

Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed some parts of this book. The sex scenes are steamy. The theory is engaging. It's definitely full of new ideas. It's hard to appreciate those ideas, though, when the tone of the prose suggests that Preciado wrote the whole thing in one coke-fueled frenzy, typing with one hand and .... doing something else with the other.

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Holly Gleason

TESTO JUNKIE Takes On Drugs, Gender, Pharma-Shifting and Porn in the Name of Self-Realignment

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2014

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Experimental. Graphic. Intellectual. Sexual. Even political in the personal sense. TESTO JUNKIE is a work of loss, grief, emergence, fighting against expectation, seeking one's essence & a whole lot of graphic stuff that might startle the more sedate open-minders. But as a way to challenge beliefs, realign gender definition and create an arc where urges are reduced to almost reflexes and stripped of emotion or cognition, TESTO JUNKIE provides an on-ramp to broader ways of viewing the world and the possibiities.
Hard to read in places, shatteringly real and painful, Beatriz Preciado pulls no punches in her bondage, testosterone and identity quest -- but it is in the name of understanding, not prurience Empathy rises from the shock; clarity settles the chaos and the churn.
As a work of writing, its execution is jagged and visceral -- and provides a window into a world most of us will never glimpse let alone experience. Bravo!

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Iva

Not for me.

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2021

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Half drug fueled memoir & half attempt at a scientific journal. Overall, a bit incoherent.

Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2017

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Great read for my class. Informational.

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2016

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Read for class at UC Davis - overall good read, engaging.

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2015

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brilliant - a necessary read

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Rachel Gardner

Intimate and provocative

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2015

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A really excellent read. Intimate and provacative, articulate and well researched. A must for anyone interested in gender politics

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2014

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I love how it is personal and clinical, historical and academic. It's definitely one of those books where I go OMG THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD at random intervals.

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Nick Wray

Mandatory reading!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2014

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The greatest queer theory text I have come across thus far. Probably even too far to the left for the majority of post marxist theorists, who may find some uncomfortable truths contained within. Heterosexuality, liberal feminism and capitalism are all expertly decoded in an analysis which has greater explanatory power than anything else you're likely to read on these subjects. The text is clear, insightful and brilliant, the history that produces our present and the mechanisms of "excitation/frustration" that structure our lives today is revealed with lucidity.

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As a contraceptive method, feminism could have made masturbation obligatory, promulgated a sexual strike among heterosexual and fertile women, and advocated lesbianism en masse; made it obligatory to tie the fallopian tubes at adolescence - and legalized abortion and made it free - if not permitting infanticide when necessary. And there is a political fiction scenario that could have been even more promising, it was possible from a biotechnological point of view, to require all women who are of child bearing age to take a monthly microdose of testosterone, as both a contraceptive method and a political method of regulating gender. Such a method would have ended once and for all sexual differentiation and the hegemony of heterosexuality. This doesn't mean that cis-females (on testosterone) would stop having sex with cis-males, but the act would not continue to be interpreted as purely heterosexual. It would have no reproductive goal; in addition, it would no longer be a question of an encounter between two people of opposite sexual orientations, but rather, with two people of gay orientation with the added possibility of vaginal penetration. Post war feminism could have concerned itself with the management of the cis-male body and declared it to be of national interest: castration, male homosexuality, the obligatory use of condoms, the sealing of the seminal channel, mass administration of Androcur (to lower the production of testosterone in cis-males) and so on. Yes, there were other possibilities, but liberal feminism made a pact with the pharamcopornographic regime.

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P. Alves De Feijo

Very nice book. A bit despising of asexual struggles

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2015

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Very nice book. A bit despising of asexual struggles, but other than that an amazing reading of xxth century capitalism from a queer, foucauldian perspective.

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Uma sociedade farmacopornográfica

Reviewed in Brazil on July 11, 2021

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Mescla de teoria - de admirável erudição - e prática pessoal, o autor narra o percurso de sua transição de gênero, traçando uma ousada análise do contexto atual no que concerne a formulação de identidades. Sua formulação do conceito do complexo 'farmacopornográfico', com suas implicações políticas e econômicas, de se constituir em referência obrigatória para a compreensão do tema.

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Un'analisi brillante della congiuntura tra sessualitá, industria farmaceutica, capitalismo liquido, industria pornografia.

Reviewed in Italy on January 18, 2017

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Paul Preciado è una figura brillante, e questo testo è un punto di rottura con le analisi contemporanee su nuove forme di capitalismo e corporeità. La sua "era pornofarmacologica" è un concetto che dispiega la congiuntura tra elementi della dimensione umana - e post umana - della storia contemporanea globale. Imperdibile.

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Perfect

Reviewed in Germany on February 29, 2020

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