A question about areolas (areolai?)

[flatlands]

I have noticed this on certain t-girls, and I wonder if you folks have any answers. On some of the tgirls with larger breasts, it almost appears that you can see their original areolas within larger 'new' areolas. I was wondering - is this the work of surgery or tattooing, or is it that their areolas grow as a result of hormones?

Here is a couple of examples:

[ila]

I think that in both examples the lady in question had breast implants put in at the nipple. I'm not knowledgable at all about implants so I do hope that one of the ladies on the site answers your question.

[racquel]

The plural of areola is areolae

http://www.yourplasticsurgeryguide.c...ri-areolar.htm

These women have their nipples completely removed for the surgery, which of course loses all nipple situation. Personally, I'd rather commit suicide.

The best boob jobs are transaxillary, which is the little armpit incision. If you don't go for ridiculous augmentation, it looks natural and there's no scar. The only real problem is that they have to use saline implants (because it has to be a little bag that goes through the little incision, then they inflate it later). A lot of people would say silicone is more natural feeling. Transumbilical is the similar surgery where they go in through your belly button.

Inframammary is where they put the incision along the bottom of the breast, so there's a scar, but it's in the fold where the breast meets your ribcage. The problem with this is that if you start off with tiny boobs then there's no fold there so they kinda have to guess where that fold will be after the implants.

Periareolar usually has the worst scars, but if you have dark areolae they can be pretty well hidden (some people get tattooed-on areolae to darken them up). The big advantage is if you want big boobs they can position the implant perfectly. If you go for huge boobs (or were totally flat to begin with), then your nipples will usually end up being way too high and look silly. It'll look like your nipples are just perched on top and a lot of time the implant looks like a freaky bag hanging underneath them. So you have to get the periareolar incision to avoid that.

And most of the people you see in shemale porn are not on hormones. When you're full of testosterone pretty much anything can get you hard. When you're full of estrogen you have to actually be hot for the person you're with.

Another way you can tell that most porn shemales aren't on hormones is the fact that estrogen very noticeably darkens the stripe along the pereneum, and that's not particularly common to see in porn.

[flatlands]

ila and racquel: thank you both for your responses.

That is more ways to do implants than I had imagined.

I can only speak about what turns me on, and I have to say that I've seen a lot of bad and/or unnecessary and/or oversized implants. I'd give examples, but I may be treading on certain tgirls' fans' toes. No point in that. I will add that there is absolutely no shame in a natural A cup, and that it can be extremely erotic.

The pereneum stripe: does that extend up some t-girls penises? I had wondered what caused that.

[virtualflower]

Racquel, thanks for the very informative reply.

It is very interesting to learn about the different techniques used for boob jobs.

Personally, I like largish (but not comically large) boobs - but I thought that Bailey Jay's hormonal boobs were just scrumptious. I don't know whether I am a big fan of her boob job. Perhaps, in time, I will come to like them. More importantly, she is happy with them

In Bailey Jay's case, while she was on hormones, she was still able to get hard and cum (through masturbation). Is this "normal"?

[racquel]

Originally Posted by flatlands

The pereneum stripe: does that extend up some t-girls penises? I had wondered what caused that.

I think it usually follows all the way down along the urethra to the ass.

Originally Posted by virtualflower

In Bailey Jay's case, while she was on hormones, she was still able to get hard and cum (through masturbation). Is this "normal"?

Well, as far as ejaculating, if you don't have testosterone then you lose a lot of the volume as the prostate and other glands shrink (the prostate actually produces less than half of the volume of semen). The majority of girls who have been on hormones for a year produce little to no semen, although I know that's not always true.

[XombieMode]

Originally Posted by racquel

I think it usually follows all the way down along the urethra to the ass.




Well, as far as ejaculating, if you don't have testosterone then you lose a lot of the volume as the prostate and other glands shrink (the prostate actually produces less than half of the volume of semen). The majority of girls who have been on hormones for a year produce little to no semen, although I know that's not always true.

this is very enlightening!

[GravityGrave]

I have a question that is somewhat related to this if anyone can help. I noticed than many transwomen I see on the net have very smell or male-looking areolae, which I guess is to be expected. However, a very select few have somewhat larger, womanly looking areolae that match the larger breasts. I obviously prefer seeing the latter, but it's fairly uncommon.

Do hormones tend to increase the size of areolae? I would assume that many of these women have taken hormones at least some time in the past, so I don't understand the discrepency. Are some women just impacted by hormones differently than others? Is it like with how implants look more natural on some women than in others?

[racquel]

I do think there are a decent number of girls in shemale porn who have never taken hormones, but of the ones who have everybody is affected differently. Those who grow decent-sized natural breasts usually have larger nipples, because the first part that develops is behind the nipple, so even if they still need implants, the breasts look a lot more natural.

Progesterone is a hormone that some TS people take and some don't, and its effects are widely varying. Some people's breasts really fill out. Some get no result. Some it is actually converted to testosterone and they have to stop. But in many cases being on progesterone for a year will significantly increase the size of the areolae and increase fatty tissue in the breasts. Being on estrogen alone often results in development of the mammary glands but not so much development of fatty tissue, so the breasts are more tubular.