Hour.ca – Laura Roberts
As one of the pussy-moistening aspects of my job, I recently received a copy of Best Sex Writing 2008, an anthology of sex-related journalism edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. The cover is super-sexy and features a stiletto heel stretching a thong away from an unidentified ass. What’s not to love?…
…Perhaps one of the most thought-provoking and disturbing articles in the collection is Battle of the Sexless, a discussion of self-castration and gender issues written by Ashlea Halpern. In it, the reader hears the story of Talula, a man who removes his own testicles in order to curtail his excessive masturbation and accompanying depression. From this starting point, Halpern asks what it means to be a man in our society, particularly if one’s testicles are removed, in addition to pointing out that the notion of an XX/XY gender binary is increasingly inaccurate.