a welcome bit of perspective

[Aiden]

Speed Stick in my experience is pretty androgynous in scent.

The best female one I've used to date was Secret, and it was a special formula (pretty much had more aluminum in it). But it was more costly because of the special formula.

Yeh same here, that seemed to be best Female one had found. 

[iFindMeHere]

Speed Stick in my experience is pretty androgynous in scent.

The best female one I've used to date was Secret, and it was a special formula (pretty much had more aluminum in it). But it was more costly because of the special formula.

Yeh same here, that seemed to be best Female one had found. 

i use unscented anti-p from Mitchum. The girls stuff doesn't work, the guys stuff pretty much does.

So how many of us guys find that to be the case I wonder?

[Elwood]

I really think it has to do with the fact that women supposedly sweat less. But we are guys in women's bodies who are probably a lot more active.

[iFindMeHere]

I really think it has to do with the fact that women supposedly sweat less. But we are guys in women's bodies who are probably a lot more active.

I am not very active. If you want to know about my life, look up "The Spoon Theory". I still sweat through girl deod.
The only reason I still use it is because I can't buy new stuff when I can still stretch the old to be "good enough".
Lane

[Elwood]

Hm. Well, are you overweight? People who are overweight sweat more... or if you live in a hotter climate, maybe. Or if you wear black all the time. That'll make a person sweat.

[Adam]

Well I'm glad I sweat a lot. It makes me feel more like a man. And maybe I will try Speed Stick and just change in one of the bathroom stalls, even though they are rather cramped. Oh well, I'll figure something out.

[Elwood]

Wish I sweat more. I only sweat out of my armpits. D:< When I run a little comes off my forehead. But the rest of me just "glistens." Not enough to make beads.

[Adam]

lol When I work out, sweat just pours from my forehead. I'm constantly whipping the sweat out of my eyes.

[Elwood]

Man. I can't help but be envious. My skinny body holds all the fluid in. I have no fat to store it in. Without reserves, my body refuses to waste it my spilling it out.

[Adam]

Well I guess that's one of the advantages I have of being a little on the chubby side, but I'm not fat and hopefully I never will be.

[noxdraconis]

Man. I can't help but be envious. My skinny body holds all the fluid in. I have no fat to store it in. Without reserves, my body refuses to waste it my spilling it out.

Trust me, Elwood, you do not want to sweat where I sweat from (other than armpits and forehead).  I get a lot of sweat on my back and under my lumps that I cannot even wipe most of the time because of my binder and also in an area whose woes can be summed up with one word:  swamp ass .

[Elwood]

Man. I can't help but be envious. My skinny body holds all the fluid in. I have no fat to store it in. Without reserves, my body refuses to waste it my spilling it out.

Trust me, Elwood, you do not want to sweat where I sweat from (other than armpits and forehead).  I get a lot of sweat on my back and under my lumps that I cannot even wipe most of the time because of my binder and also in an area whose woes can be summed up with one word:  swamp ass .

Oh, I do get a sweaty ass sometimes. But only if I'm sitting on something hot like a leather car seat. But heck, I think a sweaty back is sexy. I wish I could pull that off.

Heck, NOW I'm sweating, just thinking about that! LOL! Sweating on my stomach, mostly.

[Aiden]

LOL well the black and the bit overweight probably good reason why I sweat a lot more now lol.  Plus wearing about 3 layers at times when out and about.

But interestingly I usually don't smell much long as wearing good deoderant I tend to just have scent down below and around the breasts.

[JonasCarminis]

band camp was the worst.... i had major swamp butt going.  i sweat hard core too. >_<  i use mens axe deoderant.  it smells like man.  haha  i sweat on my chest a lot.  it tickles when the beads go down bud i cant wipe it off or scratch. >_<  grr!

[Mister]

For those of you guys who are sweating under binders...    put baby powder (good) or gold bold (best!) on your chest/stomach/back before putting on your binder.  it'll keep that pesky under-boob sweat from collecting and also prevent an even less desirable side effect- blisters.  Yes, they're possible and yes, they suck a hundred times more than you're imagining right now.

[Aiden]

Haven't had blisters, but have gotten a number of pimples/boils since started wearing a binder.  Probably TMI lol

[Arch]

From what you guys are saying, I'm starting to think that maybe binding isn't something I want to be doing right now after all, or maybe ever. I have terrifically sensitive skin. I'm allergic to all synthetic fabrics, can't have anything rough next to my skin. I can't handle regular soaps, detergents, or antiperspirants--I imagine that Gold Bond would probably give me trouble, too. I'm hypersensitive to my own perspiration. I get eczema--in fact, in the bad old days, I had it all over my body.

That was probably TMI, too, but I was THIS close to ordering a binder from Underworks this weekend. I don't know what else to do about my chest. I feel like I can't stand it anymore. And then I think that I would come across as ridiculous if I actually DID bind because I won't be perfectly flat and my voice is all wrong and everything else. I'm much older than most of you guys who aren't on T. I won't come across as having a delayed or not-yet-completed adolescence. I'll come across as what I've often felt myself to be...an androgynous freak.

I will have a whole new group of students this year, but a lot of the instructors already know me. Maybe I should rethink binding if/when I go on T or if I start teaching someplace I've never taught before.

But then I have to deal with these things on my chest, and everyone else can see them.

GAH.

[Aiden]

Yeh another problem I see is surgery and the tubes they have you wear for drainage for a few days.  Hope your not allergic to the materials they use in them. 

[Arch]

Yeh another problem I see is surgery and the tubes they have you wear for drainage for a few days.  Hope your not allergic to the materials they use in them. 

Yeah, well, I've worried about that. And about the pressure garments they make you wear afterward. But there are certain oral meds that I've taken that make my skin "normal" for awhile. A few times, when my eczema was really raging, the doc would give me some pills--some kind of steroid, I think, but it's been a long time--to get my skin temporarily under control and give me a clean slate.

My skin is a bit hardier now, and I only get eczema in patches now and then, but I have to be very, very careful.

I used to wish I could stay on the meds forever, but the long-term effects were seen as too dangerous. Anyway, it's possible that I could take meds like those for a little while post-surgery. I don't know if they're contraindicated. But as long as it's short-term, maybe that would work.

[Mister]

From what you guys are saying, I'm starting to think that maybe binding isn't something I want to be doing right now after all, or maybe ever. I have terrifically sensitive skin. I'm allergic to all synthetic fabrics, can't have anything rough next to my skin. I can't handle regular soaps, detergents, or antiperspirants--I imagine that Gold Bond would probably give me trouble, too. I'm hypersensitive to my own perspiration. I get eczema--in fact, in the bad old days, I had it all over my body.

That was probably TMI, too, but I was THIS close to ordering a binder from Underworks this weekend. I don't know what else to do about my chest. I feel like I can't stand it anymore. And then I think that I would come across as ridiculous if I actually DID bind because I won't be perfectly flat and my voice is all wrong and everything else. I'm much older than most of you guys who aren't on T. I won't come across as having a delayed or not-yet-completed adolescence. I'll come across as what I've often felt myself to be...an androgynous freak.

I will have a whole new group of students this year, but a lot of the instructors already know me. Maybe I should rethink binding if/when I go on T or if I start teaching someplace I've never taught before.

But then I have to deal with these things on my chest, and everyone else can see them.

GAH.

Hey Arch, can you wear a plain white cotton Tshirt under your binder?

Posted on: September 02, 2008, 12:00:24 PM

Yeh another problem I see is surgery and the tubes they have you wear for drainage for a few days.  Hope your not allergic to the materials they use in them. 

I have pretty sensitive skin too and this wasn't a problem.  The facility where my surgery was done is entirely latex-free, as was my post surgical binder, etc.  The drains themselves are made of implant grade silicone.