Trans Girl Bondage Fun
One thing that will happen to you a lot if you do very many hentai porn searches (ask me how I know) is that you’ll encounter a lot of porn (including well-wrought BDSM porn) featuring people who would have been called “chicks with dicks” back in the bad old days when porn was made by bald cigar-smoking cishet men with mafia connections. That term is, to put it mildly, no longer in vogue! But it has a certain visual specificity that polite language about trans identities sometimes lacks.
The trouble for hardworking pornographers and obsessive hentai-fan horndogs is that polite language about gender is not especially prescriptive about particular arrangements of genitals, since the physicality of genitalia has little to tell us about gender identity. More fundamentally, a porn image drawn from some artist’s imagination effectively has no gender at all — since they don’t exist as a person — except to the extent that we project our own assumptions onto their page.
When you see a drawing of someone with massive tits and a big fat cock, you can’t say with any rationality “Oh, that’s a trans woman.” You might well assume that they are; perhaps they’ve had a spectacular top surgery and aren’t interested in bottom surgery. But they could just as easily be intersex, for example. A character drawn in ink or pixels can’t be interrogated. If you saw someone similarly-endowed at a bar or in a private show on a trans cams site, you could in theory ask them. (In person you might get punched in the snoot, depending on your abilities with tact and charm; but them’s the breaks when you interrogate real people who have actual feelings.) On the other hand, brightly-colored hentai personalities cannot answer your questions.
The hentai context adds another layer of complications, if you haven’t been cured yet of the urge to put precise labels on your porn images. In the hentai art world, which is predominantly Japanese at least in its cultural origins and tropes, the prevailing keyword here is “futanari”, which in its most literal sense means “hermaphroditic”. Used as a noun in a porn context, it seems to have originally mostly referred to characters with tits, dicks, and pussies. There’s a lot of that sort of art out there. But there’s also a ton of art like you see in this post, featuring “futa” (a diminutive or contraction of “futanari”) who don’t have the pussies, and therefore may parse as trans.
Hopelessly confused? Good! Because the intersection of futa porn with 21st-century Western notions of trans identity is more like a freeway traffic pileup. It’s chaotic, messy, and impossible to nail down into neat categories of language that please everyone. We’re all better off, if you ask me, just enjoying the artwork, and accepting that it’s impossible to categorize.
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