TW trans surgeries, vaginoplasty, genital talk:
I think I've learned something important about vaginoplasty and neovaginas (technical term for trans girl coochie) from my last reblog about the great wall of vagina vulva:
It’s not vulgar, it’s vulva! This isn’t just sensation, it is art with a social conscience and Jamie wants you to stop, look and listen. As
I decided to see if I could tell which of the vulvas were trans women's. I've seen a fair few from looking at post-op result pics and doing research for my own surgery, so I was pretty confident.
I could for certain say two or three were neovaginas, and had maybe 7 or 8 that I thought were but couldn't be sure. What I realised though, was that all of these ones I thought were trans women's vulvas had one thing in common:
A lack of fleshiness, for lack of a better word. No large labia minora, no prominent clitoris, no defined clitoral hood.
This was a huge light bulb moment to me! It says SO MUCH about the state of vaginoplasty, and the people performing these surgeries.
Firstly, having a "neat" vulva is considered more aesthetically pleasing. I have no fucking idea why, but it's true. That's the classic porn star look for some reason. So when we get designer coochies, that's what we get made. "Fashionable" pussy. Which is so fucking weird to me.
Secondly, from my understanding a lot of vaginoplasty's difficulty is that you only have so much skin to work with. It doesn't usually take skin from elsewhere in the body, just reuses genital tissue in a like-for-like manner. The fact that there is barely any tissue around the outside means that practically all of it has been used to achieve as much depth as possible.
Which just SCREAMS "oh a straight cis guy developed this surgical technique" to me! Because if you spend all your working material on depth that means you think it's the most important factor. And why would you think that? I can only imagine it's because you see the vagina as first and foremost a hole for a cock to go. Why else would you care if your vagina is 7 inches deep vs 4? The misogyny rankles. Can the patriarchy please get out of my hypothetical future pussy.
Because I tell you what: as a massive raging lesbian this seems completely backwards. Given the choice, I'd spend as much tissue as needed to create a fully defined vulva, and then whatever is left gets spent on depth. I care much more about what it looks like in the mirror or if a partner wants to go down on me than how much dick can fit in it.
Besides, if I do end up having sex with a be-penised person then well to be blunt I already have a perfectly good hole to put it in. It even comes with its own g-spot. Why would I need another one?
Okay pussy rant over.
