The Promise of a Testicle
About this episode
The episode discusses the historical and modern perspectives on the medicalization of masculinity and related concepts.
T-maxxing, biohacking, gender-affirming care, blah, blah, blah! These modern buzzwords are just new terms for concepts that are as old as…at least a century old. This isn't the first time in American history that we’ve been obsessed with the medicalization of masculinity, and it probably won’t be the last. Ever since we first figured out that our bodily juices each spurt from specific body parts, and noticed that those body parts had homologues in other mammals, we’ve been harvesting their gl...
People in this episode
Hosts: Becky Kilimnik, Diana Doty
Topics covered
- medicalization of masculinity
- biohacking
- gender-affirming care
- T-maxxing
- historical obsession
Keywords
- T-maxxing
- biohacking
- gender-affirming care
- masculinity
- medicalization
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