Jacob Winter - Schlauchgelüste: Liebesbrief an eine verlorene...

2012, German, Interview, Jacob Winter, Johanna Kamermans,

Original title: "Schlauchgelüste: Liebesbrief an eine verlorene Männlichkeit" (Hose Cravings: Love Letter to a Lost Manhood) by Jacob Winter (Johanna Kamermans).

Johanna Kamermans was born in Vlissingen on the North Sea in the Netherlands. At the end of the 1960s, while being a civil engineer, she became a successful striptease dancer, then worked as a journalist and lived in many places: Hamburg, Berlin, Maastricht, and Arnhem.

We are not quite men, not quite women. But always both. This autobiographical novel by Jacob Winter is about the art of living a dream – against all odds, against all conventions. Jacob Winter was on the road for many years as a striptease dancer... Above woman, below man. Not "converted". But "tucked". She lived out her sexuality to the fullest. The trans women who performed on stage in the sixties and seventies were true pioneers. One of these pioneers was Jacob Winter. Who today can proudly say: "I was a woman". The book is peppered with drastic descriptions. But always in a cultivated and ironic language. "Sex'n Roll" times! When everything was still possible. In such a sense, "HOSE DESIRES" has therefore also become a moral painting of those old "In the heat of the night" times. Yes, that's it! Often laughable. Often not so funny. But always exciting. Above all, honesty. Not a "fairy tale" then! But a clarified story. Based on facts.

I interviewed Johanna in 2014 and I asked her about this book: "In 2011, I was attacked by bad people with (naked) pictures of my first Transmythos homepage, which had existed for more than 10 years without any problems and with a lot of “applause”. On this website, I had documented my whole life till that moment with a lot of “from man to woman” pictures.

As a result, I had to remove my beautiful website from the Internet (advice from the Dutch police) and swore that I would have my “revenge”. Because I wanted to show already on my website that you can reach your destination if you do everything for it! And now I want to continue by writing a book (but without pictures). In 2012 I chose the form of an autobiographical novel and the pseudonym Jacob Winter. "

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