They said that about forty percent of castration fantasists have a ‘fetishistic’ interest, in other words the idea of castration excites them sexually, and are ‘at low risk of irreversible genital mutilation’. Do you recognise the people in it?”
I’d been right about the camera flash. XXX At first I wasn’t sure whether the speaker was male or female. Twenty percent want a lower libido and a changed genital appearance, to cease to be males, and to prevent themselves from behaving offensively. I saw nothing to smile about. Had my mind reconstructed – or woven out of whole cloth – the content and narrative of ‘Jennifer’s tale’ and the segments of Specimen Five’s story that had preceded it, projecting the unacknowledged urges of a solitary male on to what might, for all I could prove, have been a blank canvas, a cold white screen?
