pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07
Posted - Feb 17 2010 : 4:09AM
I thought I'd start this thread for Tobias and Bootymeister to continue their conversation about whether or not trannies really count as dudes or chicks. Please keep all further conversations regarding this question to this particular thread instead of starting it up whenever someone asks a questions about trannies elsewhere on the forum. Similar to the IR threads, let's try and keep this conversation to one thread so we're not derailing others with the same argument over and over again. I'll get the ball rolling: In pornoworld I don't watch tranny flicks so I don't really care if they are 'really' dudes or not. In day-to-day life I figure if someone wants to be called a woman or guy and goes to the trouble of 'transitioning' then I'll respect their wishes. Edited by - BlackSix on Feb 17 2010
I think it depends on how you define gender. If you define it based solely on DNA, then I don't see that it's possible, biologically, for a person to ever change the gender they were born with, no matter how much they alter their bodies or how they present themselves. This would be the biological reality. However, in terms of the social reality, that varies (some people accept transgendered individuals completely and some don't at all). There are also degrees of acceptance. For example, you might respect the wishes of a woman who used to be a man and treat that person as a female up to a point, but you might draw the line at becoming romantically involved with such a person.
Isn't the allure of tranny porn (besides porn drift) for men: these are ultra feminized wommen with the sex drives of men? I could possibly see myself dating a tranny (not a transvestite) with a couple conditions: no wigs, don't come over with 5 o'clock shadow, don't leave the toilet seat up and don't expect me to suck cock or take it in the ass Ultimately where shemales have a hard time passing is in their male voice and large hands. Are they working on voice feminzation as part of becoming a tranny? John Burdett talks about this in one of his Bangkok detective books that feature Thai trannys. The female voice of Vaniity for example is what makes her so desirable IMO Especially as regards to porn, if you demand anal as I do, tranny porn delivers. And for trannyphobes I would recommend the Rocco Omar Galanti "buddy" movie a Trans Named Desire. Have some great male on tranny (the best coupling) and Rocco fucking (real girls) Juliana Pires and others. There is a subplot of unrequited love between handsome french actor Jean Valjean and a model looks quality tranny named Patrizia Sereia. But the best scene is near the beginning where Omar has three hot brazliians lined up on a couch and eats them. He gets to cute tranny Fabiane Spears (Britney Spears lookalike); he recoils but she's like "what's the problem" and he goes after her too. Unique set up, good hot movie with constant sex of all varieties.
Just my opinion which doesn't count for anyone other than me, but here goes.... Until they remove their dicks, they are still dudes. Maybe transitional dudes but bolt-ons don't make you female anymore than wearing a fur coat makes me a bear. Once they remove their dicks, I can accept that they are female. Fabricated female, perhaps, but females nonetheless.
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Posted - Feb 17 2010 : 10:33AM
Better question still, why do “straight” guys want to see guys being fucked up the ass by a trannie? If I’m going to want to see a trannie film at all I’d want to see GIRLS getting fucked by trannies. But then, I’m not a faggot who enjoys watching guys getting rogered in the ass by anything.
^This tranny movie buff doesn't. Those are the least appealing scenes and the ones I usually skip past. I watch porn "voyeuristically", so if I'm identifying with the male, I want to see him get sucked and fuck b/c that's what I would do if I ever so fortunuate to hook up with someone like Vaniity or Bianaca Freire. Don't like nor watch tranny porn with subordinate "males" anymore than I would watch cuckhold movies where the emasculated husband eats the creampie or is forced to suck a big black dude. That's not my viewing experience. In my book tranny porn is personality/package driven. A beautiful passable TS fucking a dude is tolerable only b/c I'm fixated on "her".
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Posted - Feb 17 2010 : 11:44AM
Sorry, didn't mean to seem personal. I actually saw your post after I posted. I just don't get trannie on male porn, that's all. And I agree, another porn pet hate of mine is cuckold for the same reasons as you said, especially seeing as those aren't even the partners of the girls being fucked! Edited by - Mojo on 2/17/2010 11:45:04 AM
I hate seeing guys taking it up the ass. I'll watch fems and trans, but I hate seeing the guy taking a porking or sucking on a cock. I especially hate it when I DO see this happening, they look like such bitches while doing it.
If a person was born a male a male they will die. No amount of surgery will ever change that.Sorry.Look I get it,somtimes I wish I was a hot girl instead of an ugly man as my life would be easier but some things can NOT be changed. I hold no hatred for trannies,ETC but I do NOT view them as true females.How can I?
I was taught waaaay back in my "Sexuality and Society" class that gender has nothing to do with DNA. Gender is a social construct - whatever a community believes signals femininity or masculinity: long hair vs. short hair, dress vs. pants, high voice vs. low voice, make-up vs. none, big fake boobs vs. flatter chest, etc. This definition stuck with me. It's sex (male or female) that is determined by DNA, but even that is rife with controversy because well, we just don't know enough. It's not all XX or XY. And if you throw reproductive capabilities in there (ovum, sperm) than you can never be transsex; cutting off your balls is not gonna give you ovaries. But then what about women born with testes and men born with ovaries? People are desperate for this cut and dry definition and it's just not gonna happen. I think this is a situation where the English language is failing us. I can refer to a tranny as whatever they like (male or female), but as soon as they get naked unless they are post-op, I can't continue - they are tranny to me, a category unto themselves. Is there something wrong with that? Why do we have to shove them in either end of the spectrum? They don't belong there. They are literally in transition, right?
I would venture to guess that any guy who is not a consumer of tranny porn himself will predictably assert that transexuals are 100% dudes. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think you have to be into it to see it any differently.
The online Merriam-Webster dictionary indicates that the words 'gender' and 'sex' can be used interchangeably (but then, what do they know?). Anyway, what I was referring to was the XX/XY chromosome thing. Savoy, assuming you were unattached, would you be open to a sexual relationship with a post-op transsexual who, in terms of physical appearance, you found sexually attractive?
That's what I mean by the English language failing us regarding this topic. Although I much prefer 2b definition: "the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex." That's what I'm using as definition of gender.And I meant to convey that there are variants within that XX/XY. Not everyone is 100% male or female. So the very notion of strictly male vs. female sex is a construct. Doctors across the nation work to "fix" ambigious genitalia as quick as they can. I was astounded at the number of procedures performed on newborns to make them adhere to male or female definition - irregardless of what's happening chromosome-wise. Mother Nature isn't so strict in her definitions and we work so hard and get so angry trying to stuff everything within two categories.Are you trying to prove that I'm a "trannylover" and therefore my opinions aren't relevant? So I will preface my answer with this: I have never had sex with a tranny. I have never watched tranny porn (other than a few seconds here or there while internet surfing). I'm going to answer your question as I would any hypothetical fuck scenario presented to me: Depends on the individual. edited to add link Edited by - savoy on 2/17/2010 1:36:18 PM
+1 to everything Savoy has said. Gender and sex are two different things, both are a construct, and transgender people do not fit into the simplistic binary our society has anxiously put in place. They transgress gender.
^ That's odd, because these threads are populated by people desperately trying to assert that transgender people are male or female, and I don't think these people are transgender themselves. Are you seriously saying that our society wouldn't create categories if trans people weren't so anxious about categorizing themselves? I think you have it backwards.
Huh? I'm not trying to prove anything. I just asked you a question. There was no hidden agenda and it wasn't a trap. None of the things you wrote above were on my mind when I posed the question.Cool. That's all I was asking. No need to become so defensive. Cheers.
I think the only people I ever hear who are desperate about trannies being accepted as one gender or another are: A) People who feel weird about watching the flicks and need re-assurance they aren't "gay" - which means they are already a subset of the culture as 1) they watch trannie flicks and 2) they are worried about their sexuality and need someone to give them a label so they can sleep better at night -or- B) Trannies who INSIST I recognize them as whatever they are destined to be or have become Really, walk up to the average person on the street and ask this question....see how many people give you "Who gives a fuck?" responses? I bet its far more than the other way around. Edited by - lubenluv on 2/17/2010 8:11:47 PM
While you're at it, here's another exercise to engage in: Intepret this image and post your responses. It will shed about as much (or as little) light on the question "Are trannies really dudes?" as your answer to the question "Are trannies really dudes?". Just as with the other exercise, however, it will shed a lot of light on you.
That's a picture of what I saw when I was drinking last night.
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Posted - Feb 18 2010 : 2:17PM
Speaking of trannies, have there ever been any trannies in porn who started out as girls and had reverse ops (been given dicks)? Be interesting if they did any scenes with normal girls.
I doff my hat to BlackSix for some great shit-stirring -- the magic element in his question being the word "really". It elevates the discourse to the level of metaphysics and epistemogogy -- and perhaps even to the search for God.
I see a woman, arms akimbo, in a fuzzy, red cardigan sweater with spikey blue epaulets. The sweater is opened to reveal her C-cup boobs in a blue bra. Unfortunately, she has a skeleton neck and a skull where her head should be.
I just noticed that this thread is not entitled, "Are Trannies Really Dudes?" Rather, it's entitled, "A Trannies Really Dudes?" This leads me to two questions: 1. What about B Trannies? 2. Why did I initially misread the thread title? There's another ink-blot test to ponder!
As for this topic; A "tranny" is male! A "tranny" and a guy having sex in a movie is gay porn. If you watch gay porn and enjoy it, you are gay! If you don't agree, you are in denial! Edited by - bobcat on 2/19/2010 7:48:37 AM
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Posted - Feb 19 2010 : 12:09PM
Not necessarily. A tranny could be a girl that’s been given a dick too. Although I guess it's rare (and harder to do) I expect it's been done in the past, a lez wanting to go one step further and give her lady lovers a bit of meat. I totally agree with the rest of your post though, in the context you mean at least. Edited by - Mojo on 2/19/2010 12:18:02 PM