Evan Hugo Tepest

In his new essay, Berlin-based author Evan Hugo Tepest explores a subject that is as charged as it is contradictory: the penis. At age 30, he begins his transition and the search for a new masculinity – and to that end, he engages in conversations with people with and without penises. The essay delves into fears and power, bodies and projections, sexuality, size, and fantasies. In ARE PENISES REAL?, sexual desire poetically collides with the confines of prevailing norms, literature and theory with belief, the sentient subject with patriarchy, and centuries-old gender concepts with radical openness.