A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

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  1. kev Avatar
    kev

    good article, fascinating story…I think I’ll meditate on this for a while.
    A few questions though…
    I liked the ending, but Buck still calls himself a man..
    What does he define as a man? It can’t be genitalia, chromosomes…really anything biological I guess. Does he believe we can be any sex we declare ourselves to be?
    Also, was the decision to keep his vagina for sexual reasons? He wasn’t willing to risk the 50% chance of not ever having an orgasm again?
    I know if I hadn’t been told he used to be a woman I wouldn’t be able to guess it, but after staring at the pictures for a while his head and face also look feminine (just me?).
    Also, when he has sex with his wife, does he like to feel like a man? I mean does he have dominance issues, like to use strap ons…maybe this is a bit too personal, but I think this is very interesting 🙂
    (The cigar is funny ^_^ )

    First?!

  2. kev Avatar
    kev

    good article, fascinating story…I think I’ll meditate on this for a while.
    A few questions though…
    I liked the ending, but Buck still calls himself a man..
    What does he define as a man? It can’t be genitalia, chromosomes…really anything biological I guess. Does he believe we can be any sex we declare ourselves to be?
    Also, was the decision to keep his vagina for sexual reasons? He wasn’t willing to risk the 50% chance of not ever having an orgasm again?
    I know if I hadn’t been told he used to be a woman I wouldn’t be able to guess it, but after staring at the pictures for a while his head and face also look feminine (just me?).
    Also, when he has sex with his wife, does he like to feel like a man? I mean does he have dominance issues, like to use strap ons…maybe this is a bit too personal, but I think this is very interesting 🙂
    (The cigar is funny ^_^ )

    First?!

  3. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    If you watch his mini documentary, or any of a number of interviews, these questions would be answered, but to save time: Buck Angel feels like a man and has so his whole life. Even as a a female model in the 80′s, Buck (whose “female name”, as he likes to call it, is Susan) always felt more like a man than a woman. This is the case for most transgendered people. You don’t need the biology to feel this to be an undeniable truth in yourself.

    He doesn’t want to get the surgery to have a penis for two major reasons. First, the surgery is massively expensive, somewhere in the range of $50-70k. Second, the technology does not exist right now, at any cost, to give a woman a penis that will work like a real penis should, e.g. become fully erect, ejaculate, bring one to orgasm. The penis is essentially useless. Buck, however, feels that he has become enough of the man that he feels he is, even without the addition of proper genitalia.

    As for the question of sex, watch his movies! He has sex in all kinds of different ways. He is a pornstar, so I’m sure that question isn’t “too personal”.

    (note: I’m not an expert on the matter, I just watched two interviews and the mini-doc about 20 minutes ago, and he says all of this stuff repeatedly, just tryin’ to help y’all out, timewise. I do also have many many tranny friends, and biology is certainly not the issue, I assure you.)

  4. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    If you watch his mini documentary, or any of a number of interviews, these questions would be answered, but to save time: Buck Angel feels like a man and has so his whole life. Even as a a female model in the 80′s, Buck (whose “female name”, as he likes to call it, is Susan) always felt more like a man than a woman. This is the case for most transgendered people. You don’t need the biology to feel this to be an undeniable truth in yourself.

    He doesn’t want to get the surgery to have a penis for two major reasons. First, the surgery is massively expensive, somewhere in the range of $50-70k. Second, the technology does not exist right now, at any cost, to give a woman a penis that will work like a real penis should, e.g. become fully erect, ejaculate, bring one to orgasm. The penis is essentially useless. Buck, however, feels that he has become enough of the man that he feels he is, even without the addition of proper genitalia.

    As for the question of sex, watch his movies! He has sex in all kinds of different ways. He is a pornstar, so I’m sure that question isn’t “too personal”.

    (note: I’m not an expert on the matter, I just watched two interviews and the mini-doc about 20 minutes ago, and he says all of this stuff repeatedly, just tryin’ to help y’all out, timewise. I do also have many many tranny friends, and biology is certainly not the issue, I assure you.)

  5. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    Kev,

    If you watch his mini documentary, or any of a number of interviews, these questions would be answered, but to save time: Buck Angel feels like a man and has so his whole life. Even as a a female model in the 80′s, Buck (whose “female name”, as he likes to call it, is Susan) always felt more like a man than a woman. This is the case for most transgendered people. You don’t need the biology to feel this to be an undeniable truth in yourself.

    He doesn’t want to get the surgery to have a penis for two major reasons. First, the surgery is massively expensive, somewhere in the range of $50-70k. Second, the technology does not exist right now, at any cost, to give a woman a penis that will work like a real penis should, e.g. become fully erect, ejaculate, bring one to orgasm. The penis is essentially useless. Buck, however, feels that he has become enough of the man that he feels he is, even without the addition of proper genitalia.

    As for the question of sex, watch his movies! He has sex in all kinds of different ways. He is a pornstar, so I’m sure that question isn’t “too personal”.

    (note: I’m not an expert on the matter, I just watched two interviews and the mini-doc about 20 minutes ago, and he says all of this stuff repeatedly, just tryin’ to help y’all out, timewise. I do also have many many tranny friends, and biology is certainly not the issue, I assure you.)

  6. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    Kev,

    If you watch his mini documentary, or any of a number of interviews, these questions would be answered, but to save time: Buck Angel feels like a man and has so his whole life. Even as a a female model in the 80′s, Buck (whose “female name”, as he likes to call it, is Susan) always felt more like a man than a woman. This is the case for most transgendered people. You don’t need the biology to feel this to be an undeniable truth in yourself.

    He doesn’t want to get the surgery to have a penis for two major reasons. First, the surgery is massively expensive, somewhere in the range of $50-70k. Second, the technology does not exist right now, at any cost, to give a woman a penis that will work like a real penis should, e.g. become fully erect, ejaculate, bring one to orgasm. The penis is essentially useless. Buck, however, feels that he has become enough of the man that he feels he is, even without the addition of proper genitalia.

    As for the question of sex, watch his movies! He has sex in all kinds of different ways. He is a pornstar, so I’m sure that question isn’t “too personal”.

    (note: I’m not an expert on the matter, I just watched two interviews and the mini-doc about 20 minutes ago, and he says all of this stuff repeatedly, just tryin’ to help y’all out, timewise. I do also have many many tranny friends, and biology is certainly not the issue, I assure you.)

  7. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    Sorry about the duplicate comment, my browser is acting funny.

  8. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    Sorry about the duplicate comment, my browser is acting funny.

  9. Desiree Avatar

    Awesome article. Very, very interesting. I love Buck’s confidence and his unabashed truth.

  10. Desiree Avatar

    Awesome article. Very, very interesting. I love Buck’s confidence and his unabashed truth.

  11. kaitertot Avatar
    kaitertot

    Great article!

  12. kaitertot Avatar
    kaitertot

    Great article!

  13. jamie Avatar
    jamie

    loved his story. literally someone just being themselves without boundaries and categories that we feel we need to place ourselves in.

  14. jamie Avatar
    jamie

    loved his story. literally someone just being themselves without boundaries and categories that we feel we need to place ourselves in.

  15. Narcissus Avatar

    Also gender and sex are two separate things. If you just arbitrarily decide to call yourself a man, it doesn’t make it so; if you identify as a man (you feel you are a man, you don’t feel right as a woman, etc.), then I think your claim to manhood is legitimate. It’s a confusing, complicated thing, but I think identifying/living as whatever gender and working toward a physical change to that gender is completely valid and makes you that gender. And of course, gender and sex are not limited to our binary system. And when he has sex with his wife (disregarding that he is a porn star for a minute), why assume that he has issues? Sex doesn’t have to involve a penis or penis substitute. It doesn’t have to conform to a gender binary. Whatever genitals are involved don’t require certain equipment or issues to have sex. That said, he is a porn star and it should be easy to find plenty of his porn to see for yourself.

    I am so angry about ftm genital surgery. It is like it doesn’t even matter that it is just a lump of useless flesh and not a functional dick. Granted, a penis is a really complicated organ, but damn, shouldn’t there be some kind of medical advancement here??

  16. Narcissus Avatar

    Also gender and sex are two separate things. If you just arbitrarily decide to call yourself a man, it doesn’t make it so; if you identify as a man (you feel you are a man, you don’t feel right as a woman, etc.), then I think your claim to manhood is legitimate. It’s a confusing, complicated thing, but I think identifying/living as whatever gender and working toward a physical change to that gender is completely valid and makes you that gender. And of course, gender and sex are not limited to our binary system. And when he has sex with his wife (disregarding that he is a porn star for a minute), why assume that he has issues? Sex doesn’t have to involve a penis or penis substitute. It doesn’t have to conform to a gender binary. Whatever genitals are involved don’t require certain equipment or issues to have sex. That said, he is a porn star and it should be easy to find plenty of his porn to see for yourself.

    I am so angry about ftm genital surgery. It is like it doesn’t even matter that it is just a lump of useless flesh and not a functional dick. Granted, a penis is a really complicated organ, but damn, shouldn’t there be some kind of medical advancement here??

  17. ovaryaction Avatar
    ovaryaction

    thankyou #8!!! <3

    annnnd thanks roo!

    i personally think buck is rad… but am not so into his porn. i think its the hyper-masculine punching his pecks and grunting. buuuut that just me 🙂

  18. ovaryaction Avatar
    ovaryaction

    thankyou #8!!! <3

    annnnd thanks roo!

    i personally think buck is rad… but am not so into his porn. i think its the hyper-masculine punching his pecks and grunting. buuuut that just me 🙂

  19. ovaryaction Avatar
    ovaryaction

    also! i love that hes HXC safe sex. like the hardestcore ive ever seen in porn.

  20. ovaryaction Avatar
    ovaryaction

    also! i love that hes HXC safe sex. like the hardestcore ive ever seen in porn.

  21. RooRaaah Crumbs Avatar

    ovaryaction – As much as I’d like to take credit for this article it was put together by Jordan and I’m no thunder-stealer :).

    I just do the photo entries on ModBlog that irk people so.

  22. RooRaaah Crumbs Avatar

    ovaryaction – As much as I’d like to take credit for this article it was put together by Jordan and I’m no thunder-stealer :).

    I just do the photo entries on ModBlog that irk people so.

  23. doitagain Avatar

    I saw a scene he did with two shemales. It was odd.

  24. doitagain Avatar

    I saw a scene he did with two shemales. It was odd.

  25. nature223 Avatar

    I have always thought not attractive to me,but the dude got his shit the way he wanted it…..
    and while I’ll never see Her/Him nude and as a sexual partner…buck is all dude,just a dude with a pussy.
    and seeing how “He” has made a life and has a “wife”…congrats,alot of other people never seem to get their shit right.

  26. nature223 Avatar

    I have always thought not attractive to me,but the dude got his shit the way he wanted it…..
    and while I’ll never see Her/Him nude and as a sexual partner…buck is all dude,just a dude with a pussy.
    and seeing how “He” has made a life and has a “wife”…congrats,alot of other people never seem to get their shit right.

  27. Lunar Avatar

    Very interesting article ! Since I’ve been reading BME for years, I’ve already heard about him quite a lot of times, but I didn’t really knew about his history and such.

  28. Lunar Avatar

    Very interesting article ! Since I’ve been reading BME for years, I’ve already heard about him quite a lot of times, but I didn’t really knew about his history and such.

  29. Tatjana Avatar
    Tatjana

    Amazing interview…amazing story… well written..unbelievable. I think I’m going to print this to keep in with my library. Wonderfully done and the content is just…it’s extremely interesting.

  30. Tatjana Avatar
    Tatjana

    Amazing interview…amazing story… well written..unbelievable. I think I’m going to print this to keep in with my library. Wonderfully done and the content is just…it’s extremely interesting.

  31. jess Avatar
    jess

    I loved the article. Additionally, Buck is hot. The end.

  32. jess Avatar
    jess

    I loved the article. Additionally, Buck is hot. The end.

  33. rolled fondant Avatar
    rolled fondant

    I met Buck a few months ago during an interview he did with at show at CIUT in Toronto (I was the technician). It was definitely one of the best (and one of my favourite) interviews that I have ever heard. He’s so well spoken and interesting, and it was wonderful to get the chance to get up close and personal. 🙂

  34. rolled fondant Avatar
    rolled fondant

    I met Buck a few months ago during an interview he did with at show at CIUT in Toronto (I was the technician). It was definitely one of the best (and one of my favourite) interviews that I have ever heard. He’s so well spoken and interesting, and it was wonderful to get the chance to get up close and personal. 🙂

  35. Darah Avatar

    Buck Angel = 😀

  36. Darah Avatar

    Buck Angel = 😀

  37. Bob Avatar
    Bob

    Hmm – I thought I saw some other comments on here before. Retracted/deleted?

  38. Bob Avatar
    Bob

    Hmm – I thought I saw some other comments on here before. Retracted/deleted?

  39. Jordan Ginsberg Avatar
    Jordan Ginsberg

    I don’t think so, Bob. Maybe in the comments for the article itself?

  40. Jordan Ginsberg Avatar
    Jordan Ginsberg

    I don’t think so, Bob. Maybe in the comments for the article itself?

  41. Bob Avatar
    Bob

    Ah right. My mistake. Thanks for clearing that up.

  42. Bob Avatar
    Bob

    Ah right. My mistake. Thanks for clearing that up.

  43. praxis Avatar
    praxis

    while I think there are about a million really interesting points about buck, what I keep thinking every time I see him is that his muscle structure is pretty amazing. He has shaped and built his body very very well and this is often hard for people who were or are female bodied.

  44. praxis Avatar
    praxis

    while I think there are about a million really interesting points about buck, what I keep thinking every time I see him is that his muscle structure is pretty amazing. He has shaped and built his body very very well and this is often hard for people who were or are female bodied.

  45. Kristin Avatar
    Kristin

    #13 “buck is all dude”

    You obviously don’t really feel that way since you’re still putting “he” and “wife” in quotation marks. That’s not respectful.

  46. Kristin Avatar
    Kristin

    #13 “buck is all dude”

    You obviously don’t really feel that way since you’re still putting “he” and “wife” in quotation marks. That’s not respectful.

  47. Katlyn Avatar
    Katlyn

    Really good article. The part about him squirting at the Stern show made me laugh out loud.
    It was awesome, except for that whole bit about how all lesbians hate men.
    It sucks that his friends dropped him because they didn’t understand who he is, but it isn’t fair to all dykes to say that they all have issues with guys. Not cool…

    I’ve heard of Buck before and it’s awesome how comfortable he is with talking about his life and his body. He definitely has a lot of patience with people who don’t understand his decisions.

  48. Katlyn Avatar
    Katlyn

    Really good article. The part about him squirting at the Stern show made me laugh out loud.
    It was awesome, except for that whole bit about how all lesbians hate men.
    It sucks that his friends dropped him because they didn’t understand who he is, but it isn’t fair to all dykes to say that they all have issues with guys. Not cool…

    I’ve heard of Buck before and it’s awesome how comfortable he is with talking about his life and his body. He definitely has a lot of patience with people who don’t understand his decisions.

  49. Meredith Avatar

    Aw sweet, I love it when a buddy of mine makes ModBlog. Yay Buck!

  50. Meredith Avatar

    Aw sweet, I love it when a buddy of mine makes ModBlog. Yay Buck!

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