The hosts discuss a New York Magazine cover story about a trans man who had a phalloplasty, as well as the subject’s troubled past and some of the other issues surrounding this whole… thing.
Show notes/links:
The story: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/gabriel-mac-essay.html
The cover image: https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/b9f/0d3/d6b50d10b390cfa79db41af27efcc48877-Winters-NY-Mag-Gabriel-Mac-06.2x.w710.jpg
Archived article in Good about violent sex: https://web.archive.org/web/20210301022015/https://www.good.is/articles/how-violent-sex-helped-ease-my-ptsd
Psychedelics article in Rolling stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-psychedelic-miracle-128798/
Initial gender transition article in GQ:https://www.gq.com/story/the-end-of-straight
Reddit thread on body integrity identity disorder:https://old.reddit.com/r/biid/comments/mzbnlj/i_succeeded_in_amputating_my_leg_im_bored_ama/
New York Times article on same:https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/22/health/psychology/at-war-with-their-bodies-they-seek-to-sever-limbs.html
Image: QINGDAO, CHINA - DECEMBER 16, 2021 - A customs officer of Huangdao checks the production of eggplant at an agricultural production base in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, Dec. 16, 2021. (Photo credit should read Zhang Jingang / Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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