Ripping Off the Closeted

[auntysarah]

My morning's web browsing brought me, via a roundabout route, to this page (probably NSFW) on a sex shop's website, where they seem to be all about fleecing closeted trans women, and MTF cross dressers for snake oil products.

Here's an excerpt:

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[profgreen]

If you want to see how slimy people can get when preying on trans women, try having an FFS consultation. Now I know some people value FFS, but those surgeons are definitely trying to milk you for everything you are worth. "Honey, who are you kidding, your nose is so masculine" *shudders*

[profgreen]

Yeah even creepier that it was the surgeon.

Made my decision real quick that I was never going to have FFS....

Give me my vagina and boobs and stop speaking to me, kthxbai.

[shemale]

As a matter of fact, when i was first coming out as trans years ago and the only word i knew for it was "transsexual," the only thing that a google search for "[nearest city] transsexual" turned up was this.

It is disgusting.

[shemale]

haha fortunately it's also really too expensive for anyone to be interested, even if they are desperate enough to be fooled by the obvious scam

[shemale]

greed is a double-edged sword T_T

[auntysarah]

I came across someone claiming to be a satisfied patient of theirs on a forum once. They didn't hang around long, but I found it very odd at the time. The whole thing is obviously a scam...

[tinamou]

It seems like snake-oil products died down for most of the last century, but now that there actually are drugs to cure baldness, lose weight,* a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viagra'>treat impotence, and give one 'pep,' people are more willing to believe that there might be some kind of viable herbal equivalent. Of course, those are generally marketed as lower-cost alternatives to the real thing, whereas the magic boobie cream these jerks are marketing seems predicated on overcharging people who can't or are afraid to get a prescription.

*sort of