"All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings - anything else that you read into them is mere hallucination, a product of your own overactive imagination."

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Source : Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.132, Seal Press

Julia Serano

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