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Let's use Mr. Weisntein's comment on my video as a jumping off point for a thread on trans people, HRT, body odor, and pheromones.pic.twitter.com/lb7DGBbtrC
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What is commonly called a person's "pheromones" is probably in fact just their body odor, which many people report playing a role in sexual attraction.
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This is often cited by straight men or (more often tbh) cis lesbians as a reason why trans women are undesirable sex partners—"I'm turned off by man smell." What they apparently don't know is that HRT changes the way you smell.
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Disclaimer: I am not trying to persuade anyone to sleep with trans people. You are very welcome to never sleep with a trans person, but I kindly plead that you not publicly broadcast that preference in conjunction with a bunch of ignorant misinformation about us.
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Before I transitioned I played a character on YouTube who wears a leatherette corset. A few months ago, now on HRT, I got that corset out again and ugh! It smelled (synthetic material, hard to wash) like pre-transition man sweat. This was so disturbing I had to buy a new one.
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Until that moment I had actually forgotten I ever smelled like that. Within a few weeks of starting HRT there was a dramatic change (more TMI ahead) in the way I smell. Pre-HRT I used to wear clinical-strength deodorant with a girly scent to mask the horror. No longer necessary.
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The most noticeable change is I now just don't smell like much at all. I can sleep in a t-shirt and not notice a scent the next day. Even on a hot day I can just put on some bullshit hippie apricot-scented deodorant and be fine. And what smell there is is distinctively female.
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And yes, the opposite change happens to trans men on T.
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So yeah. There's no need to throw punches, and if that's a hang up keeping you from considering trans people as sex partners, good news you don't need to worry about it.
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Oh other disclaimer: the "ugh" about the corset is not an ugh about the way men smell (which for the record I'm living for it). It's an ugh about having smelled that way myself, which I'm not living for it.
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Also body odor is natural and beautiful and I'm not trying to shame anyone for the way they smell. I'm sorry for tweeting.
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honest question: is there any conceivable way that I could dispute the claim that "trans women smell like men" in this context without policing sexuality in your view? Because I'm literally trying as hard as I can and wondering what else there is to do.
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