Gender/Fucking, described by author Florence Ashley as academic smut, combines erotica, theory, poetry, and personal narrative to critique and offer an alternative method to contemporary approaches within scholarly work on gender and sexuality. Ashley draws on her personal experience (though she explains that some of the narratives are hyperbolic or fabulations) of being trans, both positive and negative. She argues that academic conversations about sex should consider bodily epistemologies and move away from purely theoretical abstraction. For Ashley, sex may not be the key to liberation, but it functions as an important element of everyday life, and thus requires that scholars engage it in all its complexity, contradictions, and messiness.