From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:10:25 +0000 (-0700) Subject: publish Autoheterosexual endorsement X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5194171059081319206ade6c355cf9b856bbcf9b;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git publish Autoheterosexual endorsement --- diff --git a/content/2023/book-endorsement-autoheterosexual.md b/content/2023/book-endorsement-autoheterosexual.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b24d40e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/2023/book-endorsement-autoheterosexual.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Title: Book Endorsement: Phil Illy's Autoheterosexual: Attracted to Being the Other Sex +Date: 2023-06-21 14:10 +Category: other +Tags: two-type taxonomy, review (book) + +I'm going to make this a brief "endorsement" rather than a detailed "review", because the most important thing about [this book](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153682201-autoheterosexual) is that it exists. There just doesn't seem to have been a polished, popular-level book-form introduction to autogynephilia/autoandrophilia before! + +(Previously, the secondary sources I've referred to most often were Kay Brown's blog [_On the Science of Changing Sex_](https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/), and Anne Lawrence's _Men Trapped in Men's Bodies_, but neither of those is hitting exactly the same niche.) + +Readers who are already familiar with the two-type taxonomy might be inclined to pass on a popular-level book, but the wealth of scholarly citations Illy provides (coming out to 65 pages of endnotes) make _Autoheteroseuxal_ a valuable reference even to those who are already [approximately](/2022/Jul/the-two-type-taxonomy-is-a-useful-approximation-for-a-more-detailed-causal-model/) sold on the big picture. Consider [buying a copy!](https://www.amazon.com/Autoheterosexual-Attracted-Being-Other-Sex-ebook/dp/B0C62L2GJW/) diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index b3a274c..1c02ccb 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ May— UUT— -_ Book Endorsement: Autoheterosexual _ I'm Dropping the Pseudonym From This Blog memoir pt. 1–3—