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Cake day: February 1st, 2024

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  • I accept that explanation. I was worried that the use of specific terms might offend in some cases, like referring to anal strapon use among lesbians as “pegging”, since the power inversion does not apply there, or at worst implying that non-heterosexuality is a situational substitute for “real” traditional heterosexual sex, which was the toxic discourse in my high school.


  • That’s a very verbose assertion of an opinion that a sex term has a specific meaning that is unchanged through time. In my opinion, the only gendered language in the OP was the term “guys”, which I loosely interpreted as an implicitly misogynist equivalent to the word “folks”.

    If someone (of any gender) without an organic penis anally tops someone else (of any gender), I might use the term “pegging” because of my pre-transition male biases that I am still working to unlearn, where someone with a formal feminist education (or just more experience in the queer community) might use another term without the historical baggage of gender. I only see “pegging” as a problematic term outside of strict heterosexuality if people understand it the way you understand it, but if others see it as ungendered, they have no need for another term. It’s like how I identified as bisexual before a partner educated me on the spectrum of gender, so now I identify as pansexual.

    Thank you for the intellectual exercise.












  • As a non-passing transfem with some kink experience via a few long-term partners (quality over quantity) I’m not offended by the existence of chasers or being fetishized in an authentic way. You seem like a decent person, as long as you aren’t one of those who pretend to be straight. You are correct in assuming that transfems usually don’t top, and in some cases the hormones make it difficult or impossible.

    I guess my question is why you need transfem-specific dating advice when there’s a good number of us in the gay community and bouncing around different apps.