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I'm a rather hairy man and I literally don't even want to imagine the pain of going through this hair-by-hair. I also don't see the aesthetics behind it, but I
by holistio 5mo ago
I'm a rather hairy man and I literally don't even want to imagine the pain of going through this hair-by-hair.
I also don't see the aesthetics behind it, but I guess that's the hetero guy speaking.
Is this something that M2F trans people typically do?
Is it really this expensive? OP mentions hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- stirfish 5mo agoYeah, I tend to think of body hair as an adult trait, not a masculine trait. Aesthetically I see this kind of like a badass custom tattoo gun, where the tattoo is your own skin without the parts you don't like.
- stavros 5mo agoI think she meant that going to a place to get it done for the whole body costs that much. It still sounds expensive, but who knows. Though, I have no idea who would want to sit through something that takes ten seconds per body hair. I got a light hair removal device and it's waaaaaaaay faster and cheaper.
- nagaiaida 5mo agoanyone with skin that makes laser/ipl inapplicable, for one
- kategorybee 5mo agoI'm a trans woman who's had a lot of electrolysis. Almost all of us get permanent hair removal on our face if we can afford it. Laser is far cheaper and quicker, but not everyone can get it since it needs specific hair and skin colour combinations. Electrolysis on my face and neck has cost me tens of thousands. Think $100 per hour, and it taking 100-300 hours to complete typically. Full body hair removal would easily run in to hundreds of thousands, but very few people will be able to afford that. I also don't see the aesthetics behind it, but I guess that's the hetero guy speaking. Women are expected to not have beards, and having one or any beard shadow will get you seen as "a man" very quickly. It's both for safety, and reducing the amount of dysphoria we experience. (edited for formatting)
- stirfish 5mo agoAh, that makes a lot of sense. I was hung up on the arm hair.
- kategorybee 5mo agoThicker and longer arm hair is still a masculine trait. Testosterone thickens hair all over your body. Feminising HRT does revert body hair for some people (but not facial hair, it's a biological quirk), but usually not enough to where cis women are if you started out hairy
- mghackerlady 5mo agoI feel like harrier arms on women isn't that uncommon, but that could also just be the people I hang around (they tend to be more punk/hippie than the average)
- stirfish 5mo agoThe people I hang around tend to be more Italian than average. I bet there are a lot of factors
- delecti 5mo agoFWIW, as a trans woman, I assumed that was for demonstration purposes to avoid showing anything intimate or identifying. Though some of us do remove essentially all hair south of the eyes.
- holistio 5mo agoThanks for the clear answer! I looked at the arm hair in the video, than at my grizzly arms and totally forgot about facial hair! That sounds super expensive, isn't there a trend to do that abroad? I remember seeing Istanbul airport full of hair transplant patients, apparently people go there to have more hair at an affordable cost, maybe the opposite is also available at less than $100/h?
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- chiph 5mo agoAlso a hairy man. I got a small amount done about 20 years ago because I didn't want to end up with "old man ear hair" like my relatives (TMI, sorry). At the time, a visit was $60. It wasn't painful but I did feel a twinge/shock for each hair. Multiple visits are required because of how follicles work - they grow hair in phases. The technician would treat the ones she saw, but then I had to wait until the next growth phase to return for her to get the next batch. About 10 trips in all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_hair_growth#Growth_cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_hair_growth#Growth_cycle
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- stirfish 5mo agoYou didn't need to make an account just to write that, because you are not welcome here.
- UqWBcuFx6NV4r 5mo ago“Hetero” isn’t the word you’re looking for, buddy.
- mghackerlady 5mo agoTypically not everywhere, but places with really coarse and dark hair like the face and chest are pretty common. Also, you need some done down there for some PIV vaginoplasty (though, some surgeons remove hair in other ways. in general a lot of mtf bottom surgery varies from surgeon to surgeon though)