How to tell apart a real ladyboy from a fake ?

[Bionca]

I have heard of sites trying to cash in on the shemale porn interest by photoshopping cocks on genetic women and billing GG cam models as shemales.. I suppose they would be pretty fake.

Or maybe cases of young Thai (for example) boys, who identify as gay guys, getting implants and getting jobs as bar girls. The LBs can make good money and tits are pretty easy to remove.. so I suppose there could be some LBs who don't *really* see themselves as women .. I guess that could be fake.

Perhaps a question would be...

How is someone looking at porn going to be a stickler for authenticity?

[GRH]

Originally Posted by Bionca

I have heard of sites trying to cash in on the shemale porn interest by photoshopping cocks on genetic women and billing GG cam models as shemales.. I suppose they would be pretty fake.

How is someone looking at porn going to be a stickler for authenticity?

I love it!!! But yes Bionca, I have seen what you're talking about, there are some pretty BAD photoshop jobs of cock that just doesn't quite match the GG that it's being pasted onto.

[jimudon]

I don't like it at all. I am a dedicate she-male, femboy or ladyboy porn viewer only! It is just she-cock or cock for me. I keep my collection free of any GGs

[hankhavelock]

The only reasonable use of the term "fake" in regards to transsexuality must be the PhotoShopped images.

You cannot classify transgendered people in terms of fake or right or wrong. Remember that for most transsexual women (and men for that matter) it's a transsitional process that for most start in hiding and slowly progresses.

Some may truly want to come out full time in the open but due to societal pressure they cannot. That doesn't make her less transsexual at all. Or she may be totally happy about her male-side and only occasionally feels a need to transform.

By my humble experience there probably are as many ways to be trans as there are trans people. Each person struggles to find his or her own balance in a society that is far from sympathetic in its views on trans life. There's still a long way ahead before lay people can accept and appreciate the poetic beauty, strength and courageousness of transsexuality.

Peace!

H

[marlowe]

The question posed in this thread is fraught with difficulties. As others have pointed out, you'd have to be very clear on your definition of "real ladyboy" in order to then identify a "fake". As so often, categorization is imprecise and not that helpful. One person's definition does not necessarily correspond with another's. Does "ladyboy" here refer to the western term for Thai kathoey, or is it used as a catch-all for MtoF transgender people? Do you mean transvestite as "fake" v transsexual as "real"? Pre-op v post-op? etc, etc, etc. As was pointed out by someone in another thread, not so long ago in Thailand before readily available hormones and surgical enhancement "ladyboy" would have included effeminate gay males crossdressing as well as those identifying as women, and any amount of variety in between, so the simple 'breasts v no breasts' doesn't really help.

I'd agree with what hankhavelock says about "fake".

Originally Posted by hankhavelock

The only reasonable use of the term "fake" in regards to transsexuality must be the PhotoShopped images.

Though this does raise the question where one would stand with the hypothetical situation where a post-op MtoF transsexual cam model might use a fake penis because she thinks it would drum up more business

Probably best not to fret about it too much. Go for what you like, what attracts and moves you; and if you feel you are being deceived then move on.

[hankhavelock]

Originally Posted by marlowe

I'd agree with what hankhavelock says about "fake".

Though this does raise the question where one would stand with the hypothetical situation where a post-op MtoF transsexual cam model might use a fake penis because she thinks it would drum up more business

Now THAT was a blow below the belt...

[marlowe]

Originally Posted by hankhavelock

Now THAT was a blow below the belt...

Yep, it's a wild wild world! Can you trust anyone these days?