Episode Details

On the Big Hard Dick industry.   [Patreon Exclusive]   Clinicians and Damage authors & editors, Christie and Benjamin, tell us why the market for penis enlargement and hardness has exploded.

• What is the "penis anxiety industry"
• How does it serve individual, cultural and unconscious demands?
• How does 'Big Hard Dick' provide a brittle solution to a deep social problem?
• Is the Freudian analysis passé? Is it phallus-obsessed?
• Does a making your penis bigger and harder help deal with imposter syndrome?
• Does neoliberal capitalism make us feel "small"? Does the liberal elite want you to accept your smallness?
• How might we be big – make ambitious, large-scale change – without falling for fake solutions?

Links:

• Size Queen Nation, Christie Offenbacher & Benjamin Fife, Damage
• /215/ Organize the Incels?! ft. Alex Gendler
• The New Superfluous Men, Alex Gendler, American Affairs
• On masquerade vs imposture: How Should a Woman Look?: Scopic Strategies for Sexuated Subjects, Jennifer Friedlander
• Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life, Mari Ruti, Columbia UP