Castration: DISCUSSION

After both Jodie's and Racquel's interventions, it seems like there is almost nothing more to say on the subject, at least on the serious mode. Ladies, you both posted some of the most informative texts that I've ever read on this. Thanks a lot.
As far as I'm concerned, I really love that tiny bit more of femininity that the absence or reduction of the testicules brings to the look. And as someone said in a post, it does make the penis look cuter... Moreover, it is one more testimony to the incredible dedication of transsexual women to achieve their goal, a dedication which personally I never cease to admire. It's not just the beautifull look of a ts that seems so appealing to me, but also this irreducible desire for feminity. Takes a lot of intelligence, ressources and personallity, not to say anything of the efforts in themselves. I admit that's one thing that really gets my drive going. Hope i don't seem to weird for that...

[Alana TG]

I don't know when it'll happen, but I am excitedly looking forward to having my unwanted "family jewels" removed, someday.

Originally Posted by danthepoetman

As far as I'm concerned, I really love that tiny bit more of femininity that the absence or reduction of the testicles brings to the look. And as someone said in a post, it does make the penis look cuter... Moreover, it is one more testimony to the incredible dedication of transsexual women to achieve their goal, a dedication which personally I never cease to admire. It's not just the beautiful look of a ts that seems so appealing to me, but also this irreducible desire for femininity. Takes a lot of intelligence, resources and personality, not to say anything of the efforts in themselves. I admit that's one thing that really gets my drive going. Hope i don't seem to weird for that...

Oh my......on the contrary. To me Dan, what you said above makes you more attractive........not less (or weird, as you put it).

[SilverSabre]

Suddenly I noticed that some girls have really pale skin. Like Mandy, Sarina, Ana, Hime and some more I can't remember
Can those two things- skin pigmentation and hormone level be somehow related?

Originally Posted by Alana TG

Oh my......on the contrary. To me Dan, what you said above makes you more attractive........not less (or weird, as you put it).

Thank you kindly, lady Alana. You don't see it, but I'm blushing...

Originally Posted by SilverSabre

Suddenly I noticed that some girls have really pale skin. Like Mandy, Sarina, Ana, Hime and some more I can't remember
Can those two things- skin pigmentation and hormone level be somehow related?

Women in general tend to have paler skin than men. I suppose it has to do with this greater quality of skin, which comes from the effect of hormones, a more delicate and sensible skin constitution. Women in ancient Greece tried their best never to stay too long under the sun, as this quality was viewed as an important part of women’s aesthetic. They wanted, as any woman does with the use of make-up today, to accentuate this difference, to help biology a little. Yet, in general, the ratio in skin tone is not radical nor extreme; it's just a bit of a milder shade or tint.
I guess a paler skin therefore might possibly have something to do with the greater effect of hormones in these ladies, but all in all I suppose that they had a tendency to have a paler skin before their orchidectomy, as something natural belonging to their idiosyncratic biology.

[ila]

Originally Posted by danthepoetman

Women in general tend to have paler skin than men.

I disagree. Some women have paler skin than some men. Similarly there are a great number of men that have paler skin than women. All one can safely say is that some people have paler skin than others. Anything else is just an unscientific generalization.

Originally Posted by danthepoetman

I suppose it has to do with this greater quality of skin, which comes from the effect of hormones, a more delicate and sensible skin constitution.

I disagree with this statement too. I quite sure that one gender's skin does not have any greater quality than the other gender's skin.

Ila, we all want to be politically correct. We all want a society which gives men and women equal rights and equal chances. We all want institutions to treat both men and women alike. But there are definite, strong, very obvious physical differences between human sexes. First, sexual dimorphism is greater in humans than in just about any species of mammals. It doesn’t take much observation to realize it. Not very easy to distinguish between a female and a male cat or dog, for instance. There’s a bit more difference between apes, but far from the differences in humans. This is an evident testimony to one of the means of our survival as a specie: we collaborated by insisting on our sexual differences and aptitudes to adapt. Now, most of any good book on evolution (as long as they haven’t suffered too much influence of some trend in popular culture) will state those facts. And so will most good books on biology. After I read your answer, I googled it to get some infos to present here. Immediately, many came up. I invite you to consult simply Wikipedia on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_humans

Let me quote to you what is said for the gender differences in skin:
“Skin
Male skin is thicker (more collagen) and oilier (more sebum) than female skin.[19] They also have redder skin.
The skin of females is warmer on average than that of males. Females tend to have more pain receptors per cm of skin than males.”

The biological creatures that we are also tend (I say “tend”, ila) to view beauty in terms not only of the acknowledgement and accentuation of such differences, but also in terms of capacity to procreate and transmit good genes. Therefore such differences in women’s skin will appear as being more beautiful then that of men (in all respect for divergent sexual desires and orientations, of course), not unlike for instance, the often more pronounced lower back curve in women (a characteristic which allow more room for the uterus and better position for carrying on the one hand, and the fact that it is a sexual position which favors sexual intercourse and is created by neurotransmitters traveling directly in the spine during phases of sexual stimulation, on the other hand) will be perceived often as an element of feminine beauty, amongst many other such physical differences.

Ila, you’re a nice person with good, solid convictions, and a great sense of doing the right thing. And I respect you a lot. I don’t want to be contradictory here. But you have to acknowledge biology. And I mean of course, real biology (beware of what you find out there…).

[ila]

Originally Posted by danthepoetman

Ila, we all want to be politically correct. We all want a society which gives men and women equal rights and equal chances...

You have missed the points that I was addressing. I was not and am not trying to be politically correct. If anything I am far from ever being politically correct.

The two statements that I was specifically addressing are:

Women generally have paler skin. That is not true. It's individuals and not genders that have pale skin. For example my skin is as white as a Scandanavian's in winter. However after I've been in the sun for a week or so my skin turns a deep tan.

Women have a greater quality of skin. Nothing in the quoted article has anything to do with quality. It does however state the differences between genders. Quality is subjective, depending on who is doing the measuring.