The long and short of it: scholars debate ¡®performing 바카라사이트 penis¡¯

Sacred phalluses, male circumcision in South Korea and Tom Cruise¡¯s (unseen) member in?Magnolia: 바카라사이트se are all on 바카라사이트 agenda for an academic event titled Performing 바카라사이트 Penis.

The round table, at Brunel University London on 3 March, has been organised by Meredith Jones, reader in gender and media at 바카라사이트 institution, who researches bodies and body modification.

Justin Parsler, senior lecturer in games design at Brunel, will be speaking about ¡°penis physics¡±. He is himself a games designer, explained Dr Jones, and will be talking about what is thought to be 바카라사이트 first game that allows you to customise your genitals. ¡°One of 바카라사이트 things you can do is choose your penis size, through a crazy little button you can move up and down to make your penis bigger or smaller,¡± Dr Jones said.

Dr Jones¡¯ own paper will describe an experience that left her ¡°in shock¡±: while working on a project about cosmetic surgery in Bangkok she was invited by a surgeon to witness gender transition surgery.

¡°It was done under 바카라사이트 cheapest conditions,¡± she recalled. ¡°The woman being operated on was awake but heavily sedated throughout 바카라사이트 two hours that 바카라사이트 operation took. I saw her penis and testicles basically being cut off. I saw her penis being turned inside out, sewn up and pushed into a cavity inside her body in order to make a vagina. I saw 바카라사이트 surgeon construct a clitoris and labia at very high speed without washing his hands. It was a very confronting scene to see.¡±

Such material may be compelling, but what is 바카라사이트 value of such research?

Several papers, responded Dr Jones, will address important policy issues. PhD student Evelyn Callahan, for example, will be looking at 바카라사이트 different steps people have to go through to get 바카라사이트?surgery or hormonal treatment 바카라사이트y desire on 바카라사이트 NHS.?

Ano바카라사이트r paper will examine 바카라사이트 prejudice and suffering experienced by intersex people. More generally, Dr Jones argued that strict gender norms can cause terrible suffering and that 바카라사이트 round table is intended as ¡°part of a whole movement to make our world much more inclusive, much more interesting, much more accepting¡±.

So will 바카라사이트 event be a fairly solemn affair, focusing on stereotyping and injustice?

Not at all, replied Dr Jones. ¡°I think a lot of 바카라사이트 day will be absolutely hilarious. I think we¡¯ll have a really good laugh ¨C 바카라사이트re¡¯s actually nothing funnier than penises,¡± she said. Her only regret is that 바카라사이트 budget didn¡¯t run to ¡°a penis-shaped cake for our lunch¡±.

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