"But why is it that even in queer theory, only pain seems so socially and theoretically generative?…even Butler’s revision of Freud via the lesbian phallus only suggests that the primary tumescence from which the ego emerges might be productively relocated onto arms, hipbones, and other sites as a way of theorizing the lesbian ego; it doesn’t challenge the phallicizing construction of ‘sensation’ itself. Where goes that interestingly aching hole, symptom of a certain desire to be filled up by—let us risk—a vulgar referent?"