[1 April 2012] Quip Goes Here

[Lia S]

Nah, you're exaggerating.

I should have remembered I wasn't addressing men, but men on THE INTERNET.

Plus, the very next post below yours renders your advice irrelevant...

Yeah, that was very helpful...

[Artemisia]

I did mean "can sense," yes. For pretty much the reason you mention, although not so much that she actually has a bulge that won't go away. (That would be priapism, and extremely painful, requiring medical attention.) More like, "I'm afraid if I get another erection, it'll be as obvious to people as it was to Lisa."

Oh I see.

One more thing that surprises me about Chrissie is that apparently she doesn't know how to "tuck". Or maybe she does know but is unable to, for example because she very easily gets an erection.

(Men, I suggest you don't look up how tucking works. I can tell you it doesn't hurt, but I know it does hurt men who merely think about it.)

I missed your post Lia,

There are also a number of reasons why someone might not be able to tuck including being fairly unendowed. I have never been able to tuck but I've been lucky enough to be able to hide without it. Chrissie may also not know how because she was never taught. Heck, I only know because I read the bonus story in the Ma3 book 1. It's not like there's a ton of information out there and no one takes you aside and says "well, my lass, you're one of us now, so this is how you hide the snake."

At least no one ever did with me. Heck, I'd recommend to Chrissie wearing a lot of skirts and dresses. Then again, I prefer to wear skirts.

[Lia S]

There are also a number of reasons why someone might not be able to tuck including being fairly unendowed. I have never been able to tuck but I've been lucky enough to be able to hide without it. Chrissie may also not know how because she was never taught. Heck, I only know because I read the bonus story in the Ma3 book 1. It's not like there's a ton of information out there and no one takes you aside and says "well, my lass, you're one of us now, so this is how you hide the snake."

At least no one ever did with me. Heck, I'd recommend to Chrissie wearing a lot of skirts and dresses. Then again, I prefer to wear skirts.

There's not a huge mountain of information out there but there is enough of it on the web once you know it's called tucking. I don't remember where I learned that word but I'm fairly sure it wasn't many clicks away from wikipedia, or a google search like "how to hide penis". [tmi]There's also advanced tucking and taping in which one folds stuff such that it will look female, I'm unable to do that and couldn't blame it on a lack of material to work with.[/tmi] So indeed there's also that all bodies are different and some just won't do what one wants.

To me skirts somehow make the undesired shape stand out more, so I wouldn't recommend them, then again I don't own any tight pants...

EDIT: Chrissie might be taught about these things in the T chapter.

[Artemisia]

Well, when I first started, there wasn't a lot of information out there. Then again, I never had to actually look, so. . .

[FlyingFish]

(Men, I suggest you don't look up how tucking works. I can tell you it doesn't hurt, but I know it does hurt men who merely think about it.)

Then of course, there's the tuck the [rest censored for sanity]

Dammit, Lia was right!

[Artemisia]

If you want hurt. . .I could explain some of the things I did to myself before I had my first surgery. . .

[Freemage]

Well, when I first started, there wasn't a lot of information out there. Then again, I never had to actually look, so. . .

I suspect the problem is more with misinformation than lack of information--issues of human sexuality and gender have a painfully huge noise-to-truth ratio on the web, if you're not sure where to look for good sources in the first place. (The use of advanced SEO techniques by organizations dedicated to opposing QUILTBAG equality is, of course, just going to exacerbate the problem--if the first five places that come up on a Google search are 'reparative therapy' sites....)

[Artemisia]

I started down this path a decade ago...well, more than a decade ago now. The internet wasn't exactly full of information back then.