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LeaP
06-24-2014, 01:39 PM
And what a question it is! Half the non- TS members have asked the question outright already. The rest are thinking about it! Weeellll, if there's one thing (or is that two things?) that separates the boys from the girls, it's the girls. The girls want 'em, of course. Occasionally the confirmed boys fantasize about having them, but usually back off with an OMG No! expression if pressed. :eek:

But what about all those in the vast wasteland of the Mid Spectrum? The part-time, sometimes, gender fluid, genderqueer, etc.? You know, the wanna-boobs. What's a (potential) T-girl to do?

What a great question!

It's a question of learning and (or about) development, of course. Knowing your ABC's (and D's) is always a good place to start. For all the speculating mid-spectrumites, though, the question is how do I get them, and what's it like when you do? To wit:

There are 3 means to achieving the dream - or nightmare. Funny how folks focus on the former, isn't it? But as the point is about letting you decide, let's get on with it! 3 is the number, and the number is 3. 3 and only three. We will consider 3. Not 2. Not 4. And 5 is right out. (Apologies to Monty Python.) All else are variations.


Part A - Blossoming Boobage

1) Buy 'Em and Bolt 'Em. A popular and appropriate option for the transitioner in the form of the BA, this option is a little drastic for all but the most deluded non-transitioner. After all, the money might be better spent on manly activities and purchases like shark cage diving and red sports cars. The other bolt-on alternative is breast forms. Advantages either way include nailing the size. And no waiting! Disadvantages? See Part B!

2) Grow 'Em. Organic. Natural ... and naturally (bra) filling. No scars! No glue! No funky pocket bras! What downside could there POSSIBLY be!?? ... Part B ...

3) Manipulation and Moobage . A popular option for the dedicated DIY'er, fat flaps (sorry) are fine fill for your frillies. You get to work on 'em in your spare time, they painlessly squash nice and flat when it's away with the play, and you realize maximum value from your shop vac! And they are just as good, right? Right??? Read on, Bunkie ...


Part B - And Now, The Rest of the Story, written with special attention to the non-transitioner and wavering wanna boob. Sections correspond to those above.

1) Forget money! What's the REAL cost of a BA? It's PAIN! Wait ... it's pain and a long recovery. You can add some really interesting scarring to that, depending on your starting point, approach, and surgeon's skill. But about that money ... we really can't forget it, can we? How expensive could it possibly be? WHAT!!!! For the non-transitioner, that sudden jump in size (nothing to D-Cup+, let's be real here) presents a lot of fun male dress scenarios! Amuse your friends and family! Startle strangers! Confuse the elderly! And flummox the fundamentalists!

If you REALLY want to know what pre-transition life is like in the boob management domain - perhaps for years - then saddle up a pair of C forms, put on your normal work clothes and go to work! What's that? You can't? Try it when you have no choice! Got a family? Take 'em to the beach. You'll stay dressed, of course, or will be wearing a women's swimsuit. What? Kids don't know? Try it when you have no choice! Pop on a light tee, grab a beer and hit the backyard BBQ party. It's a good thing you like being the center of attention! Rest assured that all will be laughing with you, not at you! Glue those forms on and go for a run. Isn't this fun?!?

Isn't it fascinating that even though the easiest, simplest, cheapest, lowest medical risk, fastest way to experience day-to-day pre-transition (or even non-transition) boobage is to go out in drab with forms, all anyone wants to talk about is having the real deal? Hmmm - I wonder why that is?

2) Now for the real deal. For starters, just to get the full experience, take a couple of 1" pushpins and put 'em right through the center of each nipple. Ouch! Wasn't that a good pain? Now pick up something bulky and heavy to carry and hug it to your chest. Snug it right up to those pins! Ooh, tender. Hope you're not a belly sleeper! Now recall how long adolescence seemed to go on. Seemingly forever for most. Guess what? Growing boobs is like that! And consider the 3 S's - Shape, Size, and Symmetry. That's the goal! This is so important that I'm going to go for the punch line early ... Get used to disappointment!

And the means? Hormones and anti-androgens. Here you are, totally fixated on those boobs. But did you ever wonder WHY so many women say "What's the big deal? Boobs are just boobs." The good news is you will finally understand! All that fantasy and fixation is going to get flushed right out of your system. (Spiro will do that to you ... ) You won't care and you won't cry about it, though - even if you will be crying over everything else.

By the way, hair removal assumes a special aspect with the real deal. If your chest currently resembles a Berber carpet, do consider engaging in a little forestry before commencing. Those pushpins hurt, huh? Now electrify those pins, but stick 'em in all over - thousands of times! See also Episode 1 - Why Electrolysis Sucks.

3) Moobs are often the CD and middle path choice. It's especially satisfying for those that really like the look of what are sometimes charmingly referred to as "mudflaps." Of course, you'll look like Val Kilmer at the beach (as he is now, not 30 years ago). Fastest way to get them is to gain a LOT of weight. Cute if you look like Melissa McCarthy, maybe. Not so much if you look more like Joe McCarthy.

The next best - or at least popular - acquisition path is suction. Rube Goldberg lives! The downside here that massively over-stretched skin isn't exactly boob-like, and looking like you just got a couple of hickies from a giant lamprey doesn't help, either. But it will put a little jiggle in your wiggle. Careful taking that bra off - don't want those puppies hitting your knees!

Damn. No clever wrap line. Nothing that sums the experience of the real world of boob growth into a neat package of expectations. Wait! Maybe that's it! The other thing that happened when you pushed that pin into place was you just popped your fantasy bubble. Get used to it!

Edyta_C
06-24-2014, 02:08 PM
Well stated and not really over the top! I really liked reading this post.

Edy

Jorja
06-24-2014, 02:50 PM
Lol...Lea, you are a hoot! Quite down to earth and truthful but still a hoot. :)

KellyJameson
06-24-2014, 03:42 PM
The obsession to have breasts as what those breasts should look like probably goes a long way toward exposing the motivation for wanting them.

I have one post op friend who believes that bigger is better and for her it is about the male audience and I have often wondered how much of her transitioning was done for sexual reasons. She paid for implants and they are D's but I have no difficulty seeing her as a woman, not because of how she looks on the outside but who she is on the inside.

Breasts are powerful symbols and you cannot really appreciate, or at least I did not, until you have to live with them.

If you are publicly private and naturally reserved the physical pain pales in comparison to the pain of public ownership as the eyes that travel over your body will communicate

It is paradoxical that I feel the pull to become separated from my body all over again to keep my identity from this loss of privacy but this time I see it happening.

LeaP
06-24-2014, 03:56 PM
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If you are publicly private and naturally reserved the physical pain pales in comparison to the pain of public ownership as the eyes that travel over your body will communicate

It is paradoxical that I feel the pull to become separated from my body all over again to keep my identity from this loss of privacy but this time I see it happening.

Kelly,

I am off the charts by most measures on introversion. (I have been assessed any number of times for a variety of reasons throughout my life.) You have an uncanny way of capturing what I experience. I will say that I feel the pull less strongly now. I am getting more comfortable as I feel more myself.

I Am Paula
06-24-2014, 04:52 PM
I enjoy your posts. Keep them coming. You must have some wonderful insights on SRS.

arbon
06-24-2014, 04:58 PM
I'm looking forward to the family and friend relationships episode.

LeaP
06-24-2014, 05:14 PM
...You must have some wonderful insights on SRS.

The best insight I can offer regarding SRS is for a pre-op to avoid talking about it within hearing range of a post-op. It gets ugly! "It" referring to the scenario, of course, and not to our lovely crop of posties here. And heaven help the CD who broaches the topic!

Kathryn Martin
06-24-2014, 05:44 PM
Breasts are powerful symbols and you cannot really appreciate, or at least I did not, until you have to live with them.

If you are publicly private and naturally reserved the physical pain pales in comparison to the pain of public ownership as the eyes that travel over your body will communicate

It is paradoxical that I feel the pull to become separated from my body all over again to keep my identity from this loss of privacy but this time I see it happening.

Interesting isn't it. But breasts are not only symbols, they also have a purpose. It is such a difficult thing not to pull your shoulders forward and in fact put your shoulders back and your head straight. Breasts are for feeding and also a physical incident of attractiveness. I did not get augmentation nor do I plan to. In thinking about the purpose of our bodies, our primary and secondary sex markers and what they mean in social discourse, I found much to lift me over this barrier of introspection and loss of privacy. The loss of privacy is what women experience every day - but what to make of it is our own.

Julie Hall
06-24-2014, 06:58 PM
Lea, your posts are always entertaining! No matter how long I am away when I get back you always put a smile on my face!

NavyM2F_WAM
06-24-2014, 09:25 PM
Wow. I still want to fully become a woman, big boobs and all!

Rachel Smith
06-25-2014, 05:02 AM
Now that's funny I don't care who you are or where you are from

noeleena
06-25-2014, 06:59 AM
Hi,

Then what about those of us who are female and have breast augumention why would we have this surgery just to have something to show ....to males. maybe for some yes, though many of us its more for selfesteem to feel more as we should as a whole person in keeping with who we are as females.

Some of us don't have breasts or so small youd not see any thing and yes I know from our familys experance, female in both counts, why this obsession from males and if we don't have breasts are we discounted, to me this is only one aspect of our makeup. and our look there are far more aspects to us why not see us in those areas of who we are, and not using a sexualised part of our bodys and making that the most importaint thing about us,

...noeleena...

becky77
06-25-2014, 12:22 PM
Haha. Never got the boobs thing? I know of a couple of TS that went for lets say very large surgical options, I have no idea why, totally impractical?
For me it's all about being natural, that only comes into question if you reach a limit of growth that means you still see a maculine torso.
At the end of the day you have to do what feels right for you, I don't see a problem in having augmentation to reach a more suitable size, as long as you have allowed your body the time to reach it's fullest possible growth.
In my opinion enough is to fill a bikini or strapless dress. It's one of those female markers that flat chested gentic females also struggle with, not just us.

kellibra
06-25-2014, 03:12 PM
to boob or nor to boob? the answer for me is ‘to boob’ of course.
having real breasts and wearing a bra is like a club membership into womanhood where forms simply just don’t do it.
the question is more: 'feeling or looking' like a woman? feeling like one means natural breasts. looking like one implies CD’ing at best
plus boob is an unelegant word...

LeaP
06-25-2014, 05:24 PM
Clubs wax and wane in popularity. I remember the time all too well when women were burning their club membership cards. I'm pretty sure that most of them weren't slicing any bits off, so the basic concept probably has some validity. It just seems unfair to the less-endowed. What club do they join? The Flat Earth Society?

Cheyenne Skye
06-26-2014, 04:49 PM
Lea, have you ever considered doing stand-up?

LeaP
06-26-2014, 05:42 PM
... stand-up?

Yikes! My first taste of audience was first grade. I was to rhythmically hit a wood block in time with about 30 other munchkins doing similar silly things on stage. Except that I grabbed a pipe in the wings and wouldn't let go! After tugging on me awhile and not having a chainsaw handy, they let me be!

I don't think on my feet!

Let me know of any (successful) comics who need a new writer though!

Rachel Smith
06-26-2014, 05:46 PM
All I want is a nice pair of "B's". Oh wait ya'll already know that lol

Donna Joanne
06-26-2014, 06:32 PM
Love these posts Lea. After almost three months on HRT all I have is extremely sensitive boobs that really haven't grown much. But the I know my "puberty" will last for quite some time.

It's almost ironic that the two obviously feminine characteristics are hair and boobs. The two things we don't have and most want to make ourselves "passable" to the general public, both can be possibly 'grown' naturally or bought commercially or installed medically. It's your choice! Only your budget limits you!

LeaP
06-26-2014, 06:41 PM
Yeah, and it's too bad one doesn't compensate for the other. I have prospects for a nice healthy set of twins, but my hair keeps falling out left, right, and center. Well, OK, mostly center ... I REALLY wish some trend-setting celeb would shave her head down the middle (only). I'd go from zero to hero in a sec.

Donna Joanne
06-26-2014, 07:06 PM
I too have hopes Lea, my 'grape' sized lumps have become 'peach pit' sized in the past three months. All I keep saying is "come on oranges" (grapefruits are way too big). As for the hair, you could shave your head and go for the Persis Klambatta<sp> look (Ilea from Star Trek the Motion Picture) or Sinead O'Conner. Or let it grow long and weave it over an ice bucket like they did Yeoman Janice Rand (actress Grace Lee Whitney) on the original Star Trek TV series. Just a couple of suggestions.

LeaP
06-26-2014, 07:17 PM
Persis ... it could work ...

Drat - FFS is gonna leave a Frankenstein-ish, ear-to-ear scar over the top of my head. (See Episode 3) It's sort of like a tranny Glasgow Smile, except you pay for it instead of getting it free outside a bar. I would also fear a headtop "beard shadow" effect. It really works for Jason Statham! Except I don't want to look like Jason Statham ...

I have enough attitude to channel Sinead. I even have a pope picture! She looked a-ok with head shaved - as a 20-something. Seen her lately?

Hmmm - ice bucket ...

Aprilrain
06-26-2014, 07:34 PM
I paid for mine, why **** around? I didn't start HRT to get boobs, which is good considering HRT did very little for me in that department. I told the doc I wanted C cups, I ended up with DDD. They look proportional, though they did take some getting used to but used to them I did get!

LeaP
06-26-2014, 08:45 PM
... I ended up with DDD. ...

That certainly explains why you haven't been able to get up lately, April!

Aprilrain
06-26-2014, 09:39 PM
I'm just lazy:heehee: