before the time of Implants and Hormones...

[Rory]

Talk about the progress of science! We, the guys who love womanly TGs, and those TGs who are happy with implants, modern surgery & hormones,...are so..fuckin..lucky!!

I already know what I'm thankful for, next Thanksgiving

[ohioboy]

Some would say that makes it all the more 'unnatural' and wrong, but, in my opinion, with all this surgery and beauty product, human beauty has been enhanced.

[Coroner]

Without this kind of cosmetical progress we´d never know everything about ourselves. I´d never know that I´m into something that wouldn´t exist. We who love TG´s also discovered something about ourselves.

[ohioboy]

But now you got ugly people thinking they are beautiful, and their egos getting out of control. LOL...j/k

[ILuvGurls]

i must agree, before and after pics are.....stunning. yes i realize the lady is growing older but then aqain.........

[peggygee]

History of breast implants.


Implants have been used since 1895 to augment the
size or shape of women's breasts. The earliest known
implant was attempted by Czerny, using a woman's own
adipose tissue (from a lipoma, a benign growth, on her
back).


Gersuny tried paraffin injections in 1889, with
disastrous results. Subsequently, in the early to mid-1900s,
a number of other substances were tried, including ivory,
glass balls, ground rubber, ox cartilage, Terylene wool,
polyethylene chips, and other subsyances


In recent history, various creams and medicaments have been
used in attempts to increase bust size, and Berson in 1945 and
Maliniac in 1950 performed a flap-based augmentation by rotating
the patients chest wall tissue into the breast to add volume.


Various synthetics were used throughout the 1950s and 1960s,
including silicone injections, which an estimated 50,000 women
received. Development of silicone granulomas and hardening
of the breasts were in some cases so severe that women needed to
have mastectomies for treatment.


Women sometimes seek medical treatment for complications
up to 30 years after receiving this type of injection.

1962
Timmie Jean Lindsey becomes the first woman to receive silicone breast implants.

[peggygee]

The first sex reassignment was attempted in Germany
in 1930. Einar Wegener sought treatment and was operated
upon. Afterwards, she lived as Lily Elbe, but alas not for
long...the surgery had tragic complications.

The first well known, surviving post operative transsexual was
American ex-G.I. George Jorgensen, who became Christine
Jorgensen in 1953. Christine became the center of a whirlwind
of publicity despite an effort to avoid it, and had little choice bu
t to capitalize on the misfortune.

Christine became the first 'Media Transsexual' - or as some
transsexuals put it 'Transie Martyr' , and suffered both the benefit
and curse of fame. Christine starred in several hollywood movies
as a result, and became celebrity enough to bring transsexualism
out of the closet and into view of post-industrial society.

[Ecstatic]

Peggy, did you see Christine Jorgensen Reveals when it was presented by The Theater Offensive in Boston last year? Excellent production, an amazing reenactment of her late 1950s interview by Bradford Louryk (miming her voice, preserved on vinyl).

[peggygee]

Peggy, did you see Christine Jorgensen Reveals when it was presented by The Theater Offensive in Boston last year? Excellent production, an amazing reenactment of her late 1950s interview by Bradford Louryk (miming her voice, preserved on vinyl).

I heard about it, but sadly I missed it, as I am a big fan of hers.

[Vala_TS]

Didn't they have transexuals in the Greek/Roman periods? How did that work?

Vala,