  In her own account of sexual desire, however, Salamon is notably careful to avoid reducing transsexuality to eroticism. She is merely interested instead, in accommodating trans experiences of sexuality in a way that is not invalidating (2010, 45). Salamon draws on Merleau-Ponty's notions of the sexual schema and transposition.  In experiencing sexual desire, one is oriented toward an object of desire. In transposition, one's body (that “houses”) the sexual desire comes to be replaced by (or itself actually becomes) the desire itself.  Salamon illustrates the point as follows. When I'm thirsty and reach for a glass of water, “my arm, unbent and reaching out, is no longer the location of my sensation but rather becomes the gesture through which I am toward the other. The arm is the conduit of desire, but not the seat of its sensation” (54).