The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals

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Summary: The Best Source on the Topic!
Review: Finally, a book authored by an FTM who has enabled us to hear directly from a multitude of FTMs as well as their therapists, surgeons,researchers,and families. This is also the first book where the reader is able to witness actual sex reassignment surgeries in progress through a succession of graphically detailed photographs. Kotula's photographs and his own writing are beautifully crafted and punctuate the authenticity and authority of this book. While the book is laced with facts the information is presented in such a variety of ways one can't help but be engaged throughout the entire volume. This is a fascinating, moving account of female to male transsexual lives and will no doubt become a primary source on the topic. This is superb and a must read for anyone remotely interested in the subject.

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Summary: An Absolute Must Have for "How Life Works!"
Review: I am so impressed with the accessibility to the reader who may have no knowledge or may have a faulty perception of this special group of people which has never been presented to the public in this wholistic way...beginning with the excellent personal writing and fine-art museum quality photographs by the author, to the courageous "before" pictures and poignant, varied statements of many other FTM's. And this is what seems so ground-breaking: there also are writings by physicians, therapists, historians, politicians, family members and "straight" friends, all of whom congregate to comprise a phenomenal, diverse community of expertise and information not only for the initiated, but for the uninformed socially inquisitive as well.
All other books I have seen on similar subjects seem to be "vanity" publications, with a much narrower audience possibility, in which I don't feel welcome!
This one is so rich and complete, it could be 3 or 4 books: for the members of the extended FTM community, for the documentary fine-art photography connoisseur and collector, as a text for clinicians and physicians, and for the autobiographical writer. I recommended it to the University
librarian, my minister, a gallery owner and my Mother!

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Summary: very informative and interesting
Review: This book is a great overview of the subject. The before and after photographs are great and the text contains both scientific and personal essays. I really enjoyed it.