Showing posts with label sex change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex change. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

WTH, Eat a Dick!

Staying true to my nomination, here's a post to make you go "What The Hell!"

I usually rewrite from inspirations but this is one story that should be copy and pasted in its true word with my quips and additional research photos in between. Behold, not for the faint hearted.


WARNING: STRONG STOMACH NEEDED

I was eating my glutinous rice when i decided to look up the story Alvin mentioned. 

From Calorielab.com, the best article available.
It's not fair! A 140 character tweet in Japanese can be that long! 
[Please Retweet] I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen [$1,250]. I’m Japanese. The organs were surgically removed at age 22. I was tested to be free of venereal diseases. The organs were of normal function. I was not receiving female hormone treatment. The length at full erection was 16.1 cm [6.3 inches]. First interested buyer will get them, or I will also consider selling to a group. Will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location. If you have questions, please contact me by DM or e-mail. 
On Sunday, April 13, Tokyo illustrator Mao Sugiyama(who goes by the nickname “HC”), publicly seasoned and braised his own genitals on a portable gas cartridge burner, and then served them to five eager diners who each paid about $250 for the meal (a sixth was a no-show). The genitals had been returned to the asexual Sugiyama, frozen and double-bagged in plastic, following elective genital removal surgery on his 22nd birthday on March 31. 


After initially considering eating them himself, Sugiyama offered the meal on Twitter in mid-April to the first person willing to pay 100,000 yen (about $1,250).


But after the notoriety that his tweet caused, he organized a public banquet, dubbed “Ham Cybele – Century Banquet,” at the “Asagaya Loft A” event space in the Suginami Ward of Tokyo. “Century” in Japanese is a homophone for the Japanese word for “genitals”; “Ham Cybele” refers to the Anatolian mother goddess, prefixed with an appropriate word for tough meat to create a phrase whose initials match Sugiyama’s artist name of HC.
That's his illustration style.


The day before the event Sugiyama tweeted, “I’m starting to thaw them out,” and posted this photo. 

Are you ready?


On the day of the event a crowd of about 70 mostly twenty-somethings gathered, five to a table, to listen to a piano recital and panel discussion before the dinner.
Although only five servings of the genitals were available, the other diners were served alternate beef- and crocodile-based dishes. The cooking was done by Sugiyama himself, dressed as a chef, under the supervision of a licensed food preparation specialist.
The five genital eaters comprised a 32-year-old male manga artist (there for “research”), a 30-year-old white-collar couple (who were “curious”), an attractive 22-year-old woman (who wondered how it would feel), and 29-year-old event planner Shigenobu Matsuzawa, who tweeted before the event, “It’s a once in a lifetime chance, so I decided on the spur of the moment to do it.” Matsuzawa posted a detailed blog post on April 14 after the banquet, including about 20 photographs (the source of our photos here). 
He boasted on Twitter that he was getting twice the traffic he’d gotten when his blog was once profiled on prime-time Japanese television. But on May 19 he suddenly deleted the post and replaced it with a new post explaining that the removal was due to privacy considerations. Sugiyama himself had linked to and seemed to endorse the blog post.
Diners were required to sign a waiver releasing Sugiyama and the event organizers from any liability arising from the consumption of the genitals. Sugiyama stated that before his operation he had been tested to be free of any venereal diseases (although during the panel discussion he admitted that he had gone on a one-month sex binge with anonymous internet partners just to make sure he wouldn’t regret the operation). He stated that he had not yet started receiving female hormone therapy the time of the operation. He also added that the pre-severed penis could attain an erect length of 16.1 cm (about 6.3 inches).
This is exactly 16.1 cm,  i was curious.
Although the erect length shouldn't matter because the chopped off penis would not be erect. There's VERY LITTLE to eat to be honest.
Close-up photos of the braised genitals showed a sliced penis shaft with clearly visible corpora cavernosa and urethra, a sliced testicle with the look and texture of sea urchin sushi, and scrotal skin with about 3 mm of pubic hair growth. Rounding out the presentation the chef garnished the genitals with button mushrooms and Italian parsley.

Are you ready?

Strangely enough, i'm munching on KoKo Krunch as I'm writing this post.
Spot the 3mm hair growth like chicken skin!
Sugiyama told the tense but giggly crowd during the pre-dinner interview that he would be contributing his genital recipes to the Japanese recipe website Cookpad.com. 
A photo from Sugiyama’s Twitter stream of two large, meaty balls together on a plate has been misidentified by some websites as his testicles. They are actually beef steak cubes that Sugiyama used to develop his recipe before the real event.
Are you scrutinizing the difference? I did.
Fr left to right: testicle, scrotum, penis.
What was the verdict by the eaters? According to the deleted blog post by Matsuzawa, the hard, rubbery penis root almost bent his fork, and he spit it out after a few chews. The only taste was of the red wine that it had been pre-stewed in. The scrotum was surprisingly even harder and more rubbery than the penis, but tasteless. (Matsuzawa didn’t mention the pubic hair.) The testicles were hard on the outside, soft and glutinous in the middle, with a fishy or gamey taste.
At this point, my glutinous rice started heaving.
One of Matsuzawa’s friends in attendance asked for a piece of the penis and ate it, but after the event became distraught and expressed regret that he had lost his common sense in the heat of the moment.
Sugiyama had also intended to include his nipples on the menu, but his attempt to burn them off with sodium hydroxide did not result in anything usable.

Are you ready?

A spokesman for the Suginami police told CalorieLab that they had received many inquires and complaints from concerned citizens, but that they were unable to pursue the matter because there is no law prohibiting cannibalism in Japan. Nevertheless, the spokesman said, “We’re going to talk to the people at Asagaya Loft A and ask them what is going on and why they hosted such an event.”
Sugiyama has not posted any photos of his post-operation crotch area, but in a tweet he responded to a question by saying that surgeons created a urethra opening for urination in front of his anus at the lowest spot of his crotch, not in the front as you might expect. Looking at a side view illustration of the male reproductive tract, this looks like a logical exit point to minimize the length of the urethra, and perhaps it’s the best position for using a sit-down toilet.
Sugiyama is cheerfully answering questions from curious Twitter members about Ham Cybele, his operation, and especially his new corset, which he’s wearing to help maintain an androgynous shape as his female hormone therapy progresses (the hormones are for “health purposes”). 
He tweets that his surgery cost him 1 million yen (about $12,500). He reports that video of the Ham Cybele event was taken and that it and a written “Ham Cybele Official Report” will be available at a later date.
On his Twitter stream and personal website Sugiyama affects an etherial, artistic persona, and considers the shedding of sexual paraphernalia a step towards a higher plane of existence. Ironically, photos of the event and tweets to him afterwards suggest that getting his sex organs removed made him into something of a chick magnet. Attractive 20-something Japanese women can’t seem to get enough of him.
Calorielab.com footnote:

[We used the male singular pronoun "he" throughout this post. Sugiyama self-identifies as asexual, neither male nor female, and aspires to be so devoid of sexual features that he will be able to publicly wear transparent clothing. Sugiyama appears to fall into the gender nullification class of male-to-eunichs sometimes called "smoothies," those eunuchs who have elected to remove their penises and nipples in addition to their testicles, without replacing the removed organs with surgically created female organs. There are proposals to create a new pronoun for this asexual "third sex", which we reckon will happen around the time that asexual restrooms appear in Walmart.]

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Reassigning Sex

I heard a story about a man who committed a white collar crime (perhaps to get money for the operation) and went to jail. At this point in life, he was in the midst of a sex change. Breasts he had, a penis he also had, thus he was locked away in the men's prison.


Years later, he was released and he continued with the sex change. Finally, he became a woman. Unfortunately, greed got to the better of her again. She forged more cheques and was caught. This time, she was sent to the women's prison.


Perhaps now that she is a woman, she inherited the trait of a fickle mind. After she got released, she changed her mind about being a woman and went for another sex operation to restore what was severed.


I think all this confusion must have stemmed from him having a tiny wiener to begin with. Feeling insecure and worthless, he must have felt less than a man because of his small package and thought he was meant to be a woman.


What he should have gone for is penis lengthening or phalloplasty instead of vaginoplasty.


Nonetheless, the curious mind got the better part of me and i look to my friend Google on a Friday night again. I needed to do some of my own investigation to verify the possibility of this story.


The following video is EXTREMELY GRAPHIC. My eyeballs hurt, i felt nauseous and i think it infinite turned me off sex. On the bright side, i think its a great video to encourage virginity before marriage because it is THAT much of a turn-off.




For the benefit of the gutless (but wise) readers who won't click play, a clitoris fully supplied with nerve endings can be formed from part of the glans of the penis. The vagina has depth, (14cm) get wet and can urinate (no mention about tightness). When recovery is complete, it is often difficult for anyone, even gynecologists to know if a woman has gone through vaginoplasty. Yes, they can orgasm too. In fact only 40% of natural women can orgasm but 95% of transgender can orgasm post-op. As a bonus, the transgender woman has a prostate that has many sexual nerve endings that can add pleasure to love making when stimulated.


However, because the human body treats it as a wound, certain measures need to be taken to keep the new vagina open long term. An appetite for sex is not the answer.


So, he became a woman and then changed his mind eh? Vaginoplasty is irreversible. The piece of meat was pretty much dissected, sliced up and reconstructed in ways unimaginable. That's when phalloplasty is introduced.


This procedure is not exclusively to women who want to be men but is also a procedure considered by men who are not well-endowed.


Not sure if you want to sit through another video but this one is pretty cool because skin was taken from the patient's arm, resulting in a tattooed penis! A detailed procedure description and pictures can be found at this medical site.


It's so much easier to be a gorgeous woman transexual though. Men who became women look absolutely lip smacking tasty...



whilst women who became men look ordinary. Not quite ordinary when the man gets pregnant though.


Read story here.


I think its a misconception that transexuals undergo sex change for the sex. It's a lot more for the psychological well-being. A transexual who writes the book Pholomolo describes,


"Gay men are never being discriminated against by other gay men for the fact that they are gay. But as a straight transsexual woman I would of course date straight men, and I always had to fear that they would reject me for the fact that I was a transsexual, something that gay men do not experience. So in that respect being a transsexual is more difficult that being gay.  The thing is: if you are a woman, it is very, very difficult to live as a man, being it a straight or gay man. There is a very good reason why transsexuals go through all the trouble of hormone replacement therapy and surgeries in order to match the physical body with the emotional spirit."


The Transexual Bond Girl  



Tula: The Transexual Bond Girl AKA Caroline Cossey
Barry Kenneth Cossey
At the age of 17, Cossey started hormone therapy and began living as a woman full time. Soon after beginning transition, Cossey began a career as a showgirl and, after breast augmentation surgery, a topless dancer, working in nightclubs in London, Paris and Rome. After initial shock, Cossey's parents were supportive. After years of hormonal and psychological treatment, and legally changing her name, Cossey had sex reassignment surgery on December 31, 1974 at Charing Cross Hospital in London.


Post-op, Caroline's career took off. No longer a topless burlesque dancer, she became a highly sought-after glamour model and commercials actress, in an age when her lanky, other-worldly looks were the height of fashion. Caroline even posed in Playboy Magazine in 1981. However, all of this attention would pale in comparison to when she was cast as an extra in 1981's For Your Eyes Only, finally fulfilling her childhood dream of being a Bond girl.

A Double-0 Scandal:

Shortly after the film’s release, in 1982, the tabloid News of the World did what it had been threatening to do for quite a while and revealed that Cossey was a transsexual, which brought her modeling career and hopes of becoming an actress to a halt. 


Tula: The Transexual Bond Girl AKA Caroline Cossey
Tula's Autobigraphy
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She was in deep despair, but decided to fight it head on. In 1982, Cossey responded by releasing I Am a Woman, her first autobiography, which sought in straightforward terms to defuse the situation by telling the story in full, from her point of view. If anything, the press coverage intensified, but now it was largely sympathetic. Eventually, Tula was able to return to modeling. But a career on a bigger stage was now irretrievably gone.


Life After 007:

Eventually, Tula was able to pick up the threads of her life. A romance followed with an Italian Count who knew her story in full before meeting her (a first). They fell in love and he proposed. However, British law regards gender reassignment as merely a cosmetic procedure, and the changes in legal status allowed are cosmetic. Caroline was allowed to be called female on her passport, and that was about it. To all intents and purposes, in the eye of the law, she was and is still male. It says so on her birth certificate. It is illegal for her to use a women's lavatory. If she were convicted of a crime, she would go to a men's jail. Obviously, she was not allowed to marry another man.



Tula: The Transexual Bond Girl AKA Caroline Cossey
Tula: The Transexual Bond Girl AKA Caroline Cossey
Again, Caroline would not take this lying down. In 1983, she began legal proceedings against the British government to get the legal status of transsexuals changed. The process was to drag on for seven years and go through successively higher levels of the judiciary until it reached the European High Courts in Strasbourg in 1989.


During this period, she campaigned tirelessly for transsexuals' rights, appearing countless times in the media. Her ties with the Count suffered and they separated. In 1985, she met Elias Fattal, a Jewish businessman. A professional relationship soon became personal, and in 1988, they were engaged.


On May 21, 1989, Caroline and Elias married, at a synagogue in St. John's Wood, London. The European High Court had ruled in her favor a fortnight before, so she was now legally allowed to marry, although the government had immediately lodged an appeal, scheduled for the subsequent year. On their return from a blissful honeymoon in the Caribbean, Caroline discovered once again that what fortune and commitment create can be dashed in a day by the tabloid news.


The News of the World had done it again. Elias' family were orthodox Jews, and immediately summoned him to account for his marriage to Caroline. Soon, she had lost him back to his family. Now she received death threats. Her car was sabotaged. At the lowest ebb of her life, she again attempted to cope by writing, publishing her second book, My Story, in 1990. Again, she was in the public eye as the British government's appeal against the Strasbourg ruling came to court. This time, the court found in the government's favor.


Caroline has since returned to modeling, and has continued her fight against the system and society that has treated her and those like her so shabbily. Cossey also married again in 1992 to Canadian David Finch. The couple is still married and living in Kennesaw, Georgia, just outside Atlanta.


Is true love overrated or does it really exist? While sex reassignment appalled me at how human can play God, it is a medical profession at its most ingenious and pioneering. Transexuals shouldn't be judged or ridiculed. 

Their story is one about lifelong suffering, despair, courage and scandal in equal measure.