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Sissy Boy’s Secret Desire || Part 6
The room was heavy with the scent of sweat and submission, his body still trembling in the aftermath of what felt like total surrender. She lay beside him now, her presence looming, both comforting and intimidating. He had given her everything—his control, his dignity—and yet, there was an odd sense... Read full Story
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Sissy Slut Reunion
Rob had moved back to town and called me. He had just moved into his new place and he wanted me to come by and talk. I knew what he really wanted from the tone of his voice, because I wanted it too. He said he had been thinking and dreamed about me the whole time he was away. My spirits lifted and ... Read full Story
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A Night of Makeup, Cock and Cum
It was all I could do not to accept. After all, it's been a fantasy of mine for years. When given the opportunity, I had to go for it. I had been surfing the internet for crossdressers, shemales, transvestites and transsexuals. The idea of a hot woman with a cock had always turned me on. Further,... Read full Story
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SOUS LA DIRECTION DE MAMAN
Jaime n'avait jamais eu beaucoup de chance avec les filles du lycée. C'était venu et reparti, et maintenant il en profitait un l'été dernier avant de partir à l'université avec sa virginité intacte. Ce n'était pas vraiment sa faute, il n'était pas un crétin ou un crétin, c'est juste que la vie et la... Read full Story
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SOUS LA DIRECTION DE MAMAN ⚧️ ⚧️
Jaime n'avait jamais eu beaucoup de chance avec les filles au lycée. C'était venu et reparti, et maintenant il profitait d'un dernier été avant de partir à l'université avec sa virginité intacte. Ce n'était pas vraiment sa faute, il n'était pas un salaud ou un douchebag, c... Read full Story
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Ginger's First Gangbang
I had been enjoying regular meetings with my older lover, Mr Webster, for some time and the routine typically consisted of meeting up and heading off in his car for sex at some secluded spot in the countryside. He liked me to dress as femininely as possible, in pretty dresses, skirts and heels and a... Read full Story
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Sissy Slut: Gang Favored
I confess I am a nymphomaniac shemale slut who loves being the object of a man’s desires. That's why I was out here with these hookers trying to hook up with somebody to have sex. I'm either having sex or I'm thinking about having sex most of the time I like being a honey. I love having sex with men... Read full Story
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Interracial Sissy Story
(Some prior notes about me, this story and my writings: If MALE bisexuality, crossdressing or interracial sex bother you, don't even bother reading this further, much less commenting. Many have had secret fantasies about what it would be like to be the opposite sex, during sex. Some of my influences... Read full Story
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HELPLESS TO MY CRAVING FOR BLACK COCK
This is a totally true account of my addiction to meth and its hand in turning me into the he[pless sissy I've become to my weakness for BBC. My name as a regular male is Richie Budd. But by reading this you'll soon realize that nothing is normal. Not only was I Richard Budd. I spent an equal, if ... Read full Story
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My Noisy Upstairs Neighbors
So... I just moved into my new apartment a few weeks ago, and ever since then all day every day I have been hearing loud noises from my upstairs neighbors. Not just normal walking-around noise, but loud and heavy bangs, crashes, and poundings against the floor, my ceiling. Not only was the sound ann... Read full Story
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The Double Sex For Sissy
Jeff Malville awoke slowly, moaning softly. He almost forgot where he was in that moment where sleep and being awake clashed. However, after that split second, it all came rushing back and he moaned in delight. He was a captive on the Double D Ranch, and even though he was considered an employee... Read full Story
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Slutty Sissy's 2 Loves
Tonight was young and I was already hot and bothered, my ass-pussy was on fire, and I could hardly wait for Bob and John to come over. I had invited them over to fulfill those erotic dreams I am constantly having about the two of them using me like a tool, and I wanted that so bad. I fantasized abou... Read full Story
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the start of what to cum
I responded to an ad on Craigslist from some guy asking for help to move some furniture. He was paying pretty well and, after I practically laughed at him for asking if I could lift the furniture, he agreed to have me over to get it done. We moved everything around for what felt like hours, often mo... Read full Story
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BBC Takes sissy slut and uses her properly.
I'm a dominate alpha man who loves to humiliate sissy girls and punish them when they aren't perfect submissive sluts. I want them to worship my big black cock and beg me to let them lick it then grab them by their hair and shove my cock deep inside their throat, making them gag. I like filling siss... Read full Story
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Anal Therapy
My new psychiatrist wasn't at all what I expected. When I saw her name in the phone book, I pictured a dowdy old lady wearing a long, gray skirt and flat-soled shoes. What else could Dr. Edith Doss look like? I got my answer when a tall, leggy redhead stepped into the waiting room. A tight, black... Read full Story
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HOW MY AUNT AND SISSY NEPHEW CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER! (fictional
It was the very first night of my month long North Carolina July summer vacation stay when my Aunt Meg suddenly entered the bedroom that I was temporarily sharing with my younger cousin Rudy. Being so openly effeminine in his body language,voice and looks, I had already planted such dirty thoughts ... Read full Story
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Towel Boi: You're Hired
Kasey Stevens woke up in his new studio apartment. The five-foot-nine, blue-eyed sissy with ash brown hair yawned and stretched before heading into the bathroom. He showered, taking good care to lather his rosy skin with strawberry scented body wash. He shaved his legs and rinsed off. Then, he appli... Read full Story
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the orgiastic fever of a trans-milf
Simulating a woman, or the orgiastic fever of a trans-milf It's been two months since I moved to the megapolis, where I've discovered several places where the third gender goes. One of my first explorations was a huge lingerie shop in a MALL; I wanted to buy some sexy stuff without being noticed ... Read full Story
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A Picture Perfect Sissy
"Holly, hold your breasts up. That's it honey. Squeeze the nipples between your fingers. Make them hard for me, sweetie." Jason lifted and pushed his soft breasts together, squeezed the small dark nipples, and hurriedly looked up to see if what he was doing was okay. He really wanted wh... Read full Story
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Young Sissy Chapter 1
I don't know how long I was under...days, weeks...who knows, maybe even months. Reality blurred with nightmares as I felt my flesh being cut into by cold scalpels and stuck with needles, filling me with horribly persuasive dreams of a beautiful new body. I tried to imagine myself as a man, just to s... Read full Story
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Sissy's Cherry Got Popped!
S)heplacement- Definition- Any sissy male that is willing to take the place, or replace any woman who is not properly taking care of their man inside or outside the bedroom... These gu(y)rls will make sure their makeup and lipstick is just right, their lingerie is matching, and that they are always ... Read full Story
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Meeting Amanda
I’m a happily married man. My wife Tess and I have been together since we were teenagers. We were each other’s first real lovers and being in our mid-thirties by now, we still madly in love with each other. Tess and I always are very honest and open to each other. Both in normal life and sexual... Read full Story
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Sissy Acceptance *
La primera vez que vi porno interracial algo recorrió mi interior de una manera que nunca antes había experimentado, era como un hormigueo que pasaba por todo mi cuerpo….. hasta llegar a mi ano. No sé que fue lo que me motivo más si la insaciable obsesión por probar una verga negra, ó el hecho de... Read full Story
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trans=demic
Trans-demic Chinese Flu Sam Wong read the email from Josh Epstein, the partner in charge of the fiendishly complicated real estate deal that had consumed the last three months of their lives. “You’re going to have to close this deal without me. I’m sick as a dog, and my wife just called an ambu... Read full Story
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Beefy Buns
It's hard to get good help. Probably, that's true in any business, but it's especially difficult to find decent employees in the fast food racket. Believe me; I've tried. I manage the local Beefy Buns franchise--burgers, fries, and shakes is our mainstay, but the menu also features fish and chick... Read full Story
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Fender Bender Chapter 8
My name is Robert, but when I am dressed I call myself Vicki. I am 5'9" 160 pounds, blonde hair and blue eyes. I turned 18 a few months ago. The last two weeks of summer vacation was a wild time for me, I knew that things would settle down once school started. Gary, my best friend for years,... Read full Story
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Proud To Be A Sissy Chapter 8
I woke up to hear daddy lightly snoring and in my sleep I had draped a leg over him so that my body was almost covering him. I giggled to myself realizing that even in my sleep the sissy slut in me reached to grasp his flaccid penis. Then I curled closer up against daddy and contemplated about how m... Read full Story
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Birth of a New Sissy Part 3 Completion
I suppose at some level I knew it would happen. Or at least I should have. After nearly a month of servicing Jeff's cock and fucking myself silly on my dildo lover things took a turn. I came home from work a little early on a day Laura was off as well. When I got home she was out, but as soon ... Read full Story
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Fender Bender Chapter 6
My name is Robert, but when I am dressed I call myself Vicki. I am 5'9" 160 pounds, blonde hair and blue eyes. I had just turned 18. Mom and Curt had been home form their vacation for almost a week and I hated it. Sure I was glad to see my Mom but with them around I had to revert back to bei... Read full Story
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Discovering Mistress Sarah's World Part 2
Chapter 4 : Introducing Miss May! Miss May's arrival seemed sudden and quick to Joe. He heard the door close downstairs. Then there was the sound of somebody running up the steps. The bedroom door flung open and before Joe could look up to see anything, he heard an excited voice exclaim, "ki... Read full Story
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The Doctor’s Appointment (a very short BBC sissy hypno story)
Nurse Pip loved nothing more than being stretched wide by her black master. Her silly little white boi brain, so full of pink cotton candy, didn’t need to think as she rode the black god on the consulting room bed. She was dreaming of all the superior black cum she would soon be enjoying, when... Read full Story
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Sissy Slut and Stepdads
Frank was pumping me hard and his huge cock seemed to have grown and become extra hard. I am so thrilled that way he enjoys fucking my ass with such passion. I would almost think he was in love with me if this relationship wasn't so bizarrey. It’s ironic that as a male I always get total humiliation... Read full Story
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I Believe
I Believe I had just started my senior year in college and was in my 3rd year of transitioning from a male to a female. I couldn’t start in high school so when I graduated and I started college I started as Nikki. The first three years working on my communications degree I used to see people goin... Read full Story
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A Sissy Boy is Made
By any measuring stick Greg Martin was a wimp, and a very submissive wimp at that. His wife of 14 years, Jaclyn, had discovered this even before the two of them were married. Actually, Jaclyn wouldn't have taken a second look at Greg, as most women didn't, had it not been for his submissive nature. ... Read full Story
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Down the Path Part 5
I force myself to walk down the corridor and to the elevators. When the door opens there is an older couple in the elevator and I get on and move to the other back corner. The man's wife is standing a little in front of him and I see him look over at me briefly. Then he looks again, giving me the on... Read full Story
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TO BE OR NOT TO BE – FINAL ACT
TO BE OR NOT TO BE – FINAL ACT by Spanky de Bautumn Part 7. Sunny spent the night with Antonio and the next day they went to Mel and Shari’s for some fun. Antonio had school, so he was up and out early on Tuesday. Mel was in the shower and I was laying in bed, my mind wandering and not real... Read full Story
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My Sissy Fantasy
I reach the campsite just as the sun is going down and the clear sky is bright orange as if in memory to the beautifully warm day it has been. The campsite is popular yet set on secluded farmland and as the season is just over it is practically deserted. The whole camp is surrounded by woodland and ... Read full Story
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How it began (2/x)
(Part 1: https://www.ashemaletube.com/story/how-it-began-1-x-6645/) ... I felt more and more anxious and nervous the longer I was alone in that bed, unable to move, unable to see what was going on and unable to do anything but wait. After maybe an hour - it might have be... Read full Story
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lust of a sex-agenarian nana-pops
Frenzied lust of a sex-agenarian nana-pops; between dream and reality I had never fantasized of a manly man, even after offering my virginity; to a fabulous sissy. Before my new Era, my fantasy preferences were always with glabrous he-she’s, same about my relationships after… BUT BUT BUT… My last t... Read full Story
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Finally, My First Tranny!!!
I just came out of the doctor's office in downtown Philly from my 3 month check-up. I was pretty horney since my doctor is a female and I had a complete physical so she and her nurse were in the room with me. I got to the train station to go back to Willow Grove and was standing on the platform when... Read full Story
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Flowers in the Heart
Chapter 1 "Hey Scott, Fauna kind of likes you," Jenna said, snickering. "Hey Jenna, it hard to hear yourself over that echo?" Scott said as he caught the football, and then heaved it back to Ronnie. "Huh?" Jenna asked, puzzled. "Yeah, your head up your ... Read full Story
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Samantha sissy TGTF
Theme and genre of the story: The genre is about gender bender, futanari, gay, physical transformations of the body, magic and biology, the kink in particular that must excite in the story is the perversion of the transformation of the body and mind through a magical element that manipulates biol... Read full Story
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Fender Bender Chapter 7
The main Characters are as followed: My name is Robert, but when I am dressed I call myself Vicki. I am 5'9" 160 pounds, blonde hair and blue eyes. I turned 18 a few months ago. Gary is almost 6', 185 pounds. He has short blonde hair and dark blue eyes. He has a nice tasty 7 1/2 inch cock... Read full Story
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Erotic Dreams come true.
You start having intense erotic dreams — and the faces you see is one you don’t recognize but that feels familiar. Mandy was that girl that Chad had been dreaming of, the kind where to see her made a rush go through you like a hot flash. Chad had just broken off a relationship, and his sister war... Read full Story
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Jenny, Melissa and Me
I’m watching you on the screen, Jenny, as you pull down your pretty nylon panties with the floral prints and spread your legs. Your brunette hair hangs down around your lovely eighteen year old face, smiling as your labia open wide and you begin to rub your clitoris, all the while smiling, and... Read full Story
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A Perfect Pandemic: A Transsexual Transition in a Troubled Time
A Perfect Pandemic A Transsexual Transition in a Troubled Time A Novelette by Alexandra Rios Text Copyright Reserved © August, 2021 Dedication Transgender Day of Remembrance is a solemn occasion. I am offering “A Perfect Pandemic” for free as an antidote to the fear, phobia, discrimination, d... Read full Story
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SOUS LA DIRECTION DE MAMAN
Jaime n'avait jamais eu beaucoup de chance avec les filles du lycée. C'était venu et reparti, et maintenant il en profitait un l'été dernier avant de partir à l'université avec sa virginité intacte. Ce n'était pas vraiment sa faute, il n'était pas un crétin ou un crétin, c'est juste que la vie et la... Read full Story
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MY Party Favor Fantasy
My Party Favor Fantasy A fictional story built around an old fantasy of mine I ran a notice on one of those sex sites that said” Help me fulfill my fantasy and I bet we take care of some of yours also. Hi there, I am Penny and I am a total bottom trans w... Read full Story
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A Fairy Tale Part 1
=-=-Chapter One-=-= "Heather?" My boyfriend was knocking on the bathroom door. "What's wrong, are you okay? Heather?" "Yeah..." I swallowed thickly and that was a mistake. I threw up some more, kneeling on the floor, feeling like I was dying. "Heather?&q... Read full Story
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My new Life with Pat. Part 2
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A Fairy Tale Part 2
=-=-Chapter Six-=-= I woke up sometime later and I was feeling better, even a little hungry actually, and I wanted a shower and I needed to pee and...I cocked my head as I heard the unmistakable sounds of Mistress Stacy's bed moving. She had a large one, king sized, with old springs or somethi... Read full Story
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My Awkward Phase
My Awkward Phase ©Alexandra Rios 2019 The greatest lie is that what happens in high school doesn't matter, because life begins in college. I pretended to agree, although I never believed it, for I was the world's greatest liar. Wannabees I was hanging out with my friends Quinn, Barb and Anne ... Read full Story
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Slut indiscretion
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Becoming a Drag Queen
I was thrilled when my boss told me he was sending me to San Francisco for a conference. It was a location on my "Top 10 places I wanted to go". I went online and Googled the major attractions and tourist "must sees in San Francisco. The conference was Wednesday to Friday and I figure... Read full Story
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Fem Firm 3: The Return Of Frankie
PART 1 THE VISITOR Over the next couple of months, it was pretty much business as usual at the Firm. You know, depositions, court filings, motions, hot sloppy blow jobs and ass destroying anal sex (Thanks Angela!).Not to mention Friday Fuckfests. But since I started working here everyone se... Read full Story
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Dating all whole my life
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