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An alumni gathering like no other; 2/2
... I opened my eyes, sobered up from the alcohol and my lust. Simo had already left. I had to get ready for the party, and I had to do it like a man! BUT, slut that I am, to make my breasts more prominent under my dark purple tank top, I tightened a transparent strap around my waist. You never kno... 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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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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delicious virile male flesh
Tasted delicious virile male flesh… The breeze caressed my swollen nipples giving me pleasant shivers. The two glasses of Riesling had also contributed to my excitement. My crotch was burning as if the disappearing sun had blown all its thermal energy into me. Under my fine lace panties, purple o... Read full Story
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A new start in life
“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.” John, living outside Boston, being your average accountant working with Gillette, had gone through a messy di... Read full Story
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Crossdresser gets dick for first time
I was so tired of just watching porn. So tired of the sissy hypno threads that made me crave men, crave cock, crave being weak, crave being the bitch...only to cum and do nothing about it. But the desire to transition from fantasy to reality was growing stronger and stronger. I decided it was ti... Read full Story
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My first cock sucking experience Black CD/Transsex
My first drunk TS/CD experience. True story It was the early 90's. I lived in LA and had not much going on in my life in terms of a sex life. I had ventured into straight porn and when I dared to, at the video store I would sneek in a shemale video here and there. I would find the scenes ... Read full Story
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BANGING AROUND BANGKOK
BANGING AROUND BANGKOK: THE AMOROUS ADVENTURES OF CAITLIN "MEOW" MORRISON after living and working in Thailand/SE Asia for many years i decided to write an erotic story based on some of the people i have known, venues and places i have been, and the P4P night-scene where i spent way too much... Read full Story
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Camming Down the Rabbit Hole Ch. 12
We woke up many hours later, still intertwined, my morning wood throbbing as Ellie slid inside my panties and wrapped her hand around it. This was a much better way to wake up than usual, and we proceeded to have a really relaxed slow fuck. She reached a much more low key orgasm but I knew I wouldn’... Read full Story
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My Seductive Secret (True Story)
During my childhood, me and my brother used to play with two other boys who were our neighbors every weekend. One day we decided to wrestle, and I took on the youngest one, (he was about 2 years younger than me, like my brother) and we wrestled in the shed while my bro and his bro (who was my age) w... Read full Story
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Camming Down the Rabbit Hole Ch. 10
As the sun beamed in through a gap in the curtains my now familiar morning wood strained at the silk of my nightwear. How was it that no matter how hard I came the night before it would wake up eager and ready to go. As had become customary my mind would be filled with the events of the previous nig... Read full Story
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Nylon teasers
They came into the video store where I worked as a clerk. Almost every day. Teasers. Both of them. What made it both great and terrible for me was that it fed my deepest fetish -- stockings -- as it denied me any fulfillment other than frequent and frantic "self-gratification."... Read full Story
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Where No Man Has Gone Before
I write this with the faint hope that some day, some way, I can send it to the men of Earth. (Maybe via the Internet?) It's been over a year now since that night... I had been driving later that night than usual for me. You see I'm just a single, middle-aged guy who's good at fixing stuff. I had ... Read full Story
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Camming Down the Rabbit Hole Ch. 07
Opening my eyes I struggled a little as the residual cum on my face from last night’s show hadn’t been fully wiped off, I felt the dry and crusty leftovers crinkle on my skin, but couldn’t help but smile to myself as I remembered how it had got there. The intensity of that orgasm had been on another... Read full Story
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Hung Trans Lesbians Fuck Two Ladyboys
Note 1: If you like Transsexuals, Trans Lesbians, Asian Ladyboys, Big Cocks, Extreme Cock Sucking, Anal Fucking, Anal Fisting, Semen Swallowing, Role Play, Orgies, BDSM, Cock Sounding and Foot Fetish this story is for you. Note 2: All the characters are over 21. The names are fictitious, but some... Read full Story
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Anastasia's Life So Far
Chapter 1: Humbling Beginnings My story starts where most every crossdresser's story starts. It starts somewhere around the time I was an infant. I can remember not to mention being told several thousand times that my choice of toys as a child was dolls, strollers, dress up and tea parties, Barbi... Read full Story
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Daddys Little Slut
I have been living with my dad for the last year after my mum who is Indian, found out that I was doing lots of drugs, and that I was bi and also a cross dresser. We never talked about it as for me, the cross dressing was on and off and usually when i was high. When i turned 25, I tried meth, and fo... Read full Story
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Finding out my next-door neighbor was a crossdressing beauty que
Finding out my next-door neighbor was a crossdressing beauty queen. I mean fetish is trans women, but I don’t mind blowing a load to a beautiful cross-dresser. I used to live in a small apartment complex in Queens New York. My neighbor was a guy name Luiz from Brazil. A very friendly and fl... Read full Story
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Unexpected Twist
I'm a reporter for a regional newspaper in Germany, in my 30's and always in search of a good story. Last summer, while visiting a local pride festival for a short report, I got in contact with the regional queer community. A few months before, a new editor-in-chief took over in our office, a very c... Read full Story
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I and the old man's story 后面中文
I am from Chongqing, a boy who loves his father. When I was young, my neighbor aunt always said I looked like my sister, like a beautiful girl. At that time, my family was relatively poor. My Sister, my parents, and my family of four lived in public rental housing of less than 30 square meters. Star... Read full Story
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Taking Ricky's Cherry
My work has me traveling all over the US and if you have read any of my previous stuff then you might have figured out that I have a major cougar streak. I just love being the first T gurl to a sexually inexperienced young guy. I was bored and horny in the hotel room, so I logged into a gay dating s... Read full Story
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From accidental trans porn addiction to a cum filled booty
One night when I was around 30 or so I was watching some porn, nothing unusual for a guy like me, aka a sex addict. Sex addiction is great if you’re Tiger Woods and swimming in poon, but for guys like me - regular, awkward, slightly handsome in a very boyish way, weirdos — it’s not that fun. We... Read full Story
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Camming Down the Rabbit Hole Ch. 11
I sat there for some time, my phone still in hand. I couldn’t fully comprehend the situation and where I was. All this started when I was put on furlough and thought I would be losing my job, an idea born out of boredom, hornieness and desperation. What started as a regular cam show with a guy hopin... Read full Story
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Crossdresser 1st time!
Hi, im new to this. this happened about 3 years ago now. I had started off the night being at my ex gfs house looking at her sexy underwear thinking how it would feel etc. so, having just started a new job I felt it was time to relax a little while she was out working (from 10pm til 6am). from th... 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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First fuck in public ;)
You’re only wearing a coat, I find a place where, I can kiss you then slide my hand between the flaps of your coat. I expose your breasts and slide my hand down across your tummy down to your pussy. My fingers start to explore your soft bush, working there way to your soft pink lips surrounding your... Read full Story
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Feriengruss 18.07.24
Um ähnliches, wie im folgenden Bericht, mit mir zu erleben, ist es notwendig, dass man sich sehr gut kennt. Alle Handlungen sind miteinander abgesprochen und es ist beidseitig ein tiefes Vertrauen vorhanden. Nicht nur, dass mir nichts passiert, auch dass ich meine Grenzen während des Spiels klar kom... Read full Story
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Making A Man Out Of Tommy
I have two good friends, Brad and Matt who are actually my fuck buddies. Both of them travel for work, so they tend to be gone a couple of months at a time. I have a key to their apartment, so I can let myself in for sex when they are home and to bring in the mail when they are not. I also get to us... Read full Story
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A Virgin Crossdresser
I was newly turned 18 never even kissed a girl let alone had sex. I had been crossdressing for about a year and had stumbled upon a site called tvchix which where I spent my nights in chat looking and getting an insight into what this world could offer. Bit of background I had named my alter eg... Read full Story
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Camming Down the Rabbit Hole Ch. 08
A familiar sensation greeted me as my eyes opened and a yawn escaped my mouth, that oh so delicious feeling of my morning wood straining against my silk night ware. It was becoming an ever occurring pattern that no matter how large the orgasm the night before I would wake with the hardest of cocks, ... Read full Story
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Camming Down the Rabbit Hole Ch. 09
As per my previous mornings recently, I stirred and rubbed the sleep from my eyes, that delicious feeling of my silk night ware stretching over my taught nipples and my morning wood throbbing in its lace enclosure. The urge to touch myself was palpable, it seemed no matter how hard I came the night ... Read full Story
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Little cock convention
They came from all over the nation to downtown LA convention center. It was the "Little Cock Convention" I watched as men from all races and status came in. Sometimes they came with their wives,friends,Mistresses,lovers, or even their boyfriends. I was on Guard duty and walking the conven... Read full Story
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I love the idea being a crossdresser wearing women outfit bars in panties n sexy outfit not just for the sex I love sex being on my knees sucking cocks in getting fuck by a big cock see win I was very young I had sex with 3 guys one day they ask me will I suck there cocks in I sand yes we want insid... Read full Story
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Virgin Slut Cravings.
There have been so many times that I have had to hide how I felt because I lived my life denying who I was. I was a closet queen who was pretending to be normal. Some might have guessed my secret if they were observant. I didn't do things that other boys my age did. I love hanging out at home like a... Read full Story
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Horny Writing A Strange Habit
I enjoy watching videos which I can Vicariously live. This is nothing more than my horny hobby, an amalgamation of various thoughts. My form of hands free edging. Spell checked only, "No I haven't proof read a first draft, not trying to publish masterful works here." Hope to hear from those w... Read full Story
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Southern Hospitality Ch. 01
XtinaSmith2017 Ash gawped at his mother, incredulous as to what she had just said. He understood the basic premise of what had happened, but the reasoning she must have had absolutely baffled him. "Why?! Why would you do that?!" He pleaded, voice light and desperate. She shrugged, looking acr... Read full Story
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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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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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First Sexual Crossdress Experience
How my secretary found out I'm a bi TV and how me and my TV friend educate her into some of the more zany aspects of TV sex. *** As I laid back against the wall of the toilet with my nylon-clad thighs spread wide and my erect cock jutting up lewdly from between them, the wooden door in front o... Read full Story
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My first encounter
This story details my first encounter with a stranger I met over the internet. I was 25 and reall getting into being a girl, I dressed all the time, and dreamed of sucking a cock dressed as who I really wanted to be. So I took a plunge in meeting someone for a quick bj in the area. I sent him some p... Read full Story
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Porn site meeting and fucking ;)
We started talking on a site. I knew you were for real when you sent me a message introducing yourself. We only spoke for 2 days before we decided to meet up and I was excited to play with a real little slut. You told me the only things off limit were anal and scat otherwise i could do what I wanted... Read full Story
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Sexual fantasies on tiptoes
Sexual Fantasy on tiptoes when I was a teenager, I began to like live female gymnastics and ballet, and I had a good feeling about the posture of women straightening their toes and leaning their heads back, my intuition tells me that this is what happens when a woman has an orgasm, and as an adult I... Read full Story
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Philippines vacation with a Dominant Big Cock Ladyboy (Part II)
Please read the initial story to get proper context. I spent a 9-day vacation in the Philippines with a sexy and super sweet 34-year old Filipina Ladyboy I met online and developed a relationship with before traveling to meet her. It was the first and only time to visit the Philippines. Less t... Read full Story
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Bikini Boy
I was the boy my father had hoped for after 3 daughters before me. Life in our suburban middle class two-story house was as normal as anyone else's. My dad was a loving father bringing me up and doing the things a father likes to do with his son – baseball, fishing, camping, working the garage... Read full Story
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Tortured by the T-Girl Tutor
Duncan didn't quite know how to handle it. He'd planned on a quiet Winter Break. Sleeping til noon, watching too much television and eating tons of junk food. That kind of stuff. He had a whole two weeks off from community college. At school, he was an outcast. They say life gets better after hi... Read full Story
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I was just a young boy then, senior in high school, horny as hell and dreaming of my first gay experience since sitting in my new red lace thong and white lacy bra and discovering the one porno in the house everyone kept hiding from me. I guess they thought my s****rs panty drawer held no interest f... Read full Story
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Big Dick Alessia Visits Dallas
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Southern Hospitality Ch. 03
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The Making of Erica - Sperm Loving Crossdresser
Confessions of a Crossdresser I am a crossdresser. It is an addiction. I’ve tried, but I really can’t stop myself: fantasies, endless looking at pornography, shopping, dressing, masturbation, and inevitably, seeking men to please. I have only sucked cocks, but over a hundred at my las... Read full Story
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Becoming a Free Spirit
She lay dying in my arms. A brief smile came across her face. She croaked "honey remember that idol I told you about locked away in the safety deposit box?" "Yes dear but save your strength okay, I'm not concerned about some idol" "But I have to tell you about it. I... Read full Story
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Fender Bender Chapter 2
The bright sun shining through the window woke me up, for a moment I was confused and disoriented. Then it all came back to me. I had sex with Mark and Susan James last night and I was still wearing a pink baby doll nighty and matching panties she had given me to put on before we went to bed. I w... Read full Story
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Old Folks Chapter 1
I had been cross-dressing for some years, but I had never been with another man. I had been talking on a gay chat site for some months when I found someone who I got on with well. We exchanged photos I was happy with his and he was happy with mine. Deciding to get together, we arranged a date and ti... Read full Story
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First time Crossdressing
I am a bisexual man, meeting straight, bisexual or gay men for our sexual pleasures. I post messages on various message boards that allow members profiles and posting messages. I also post to local groups in my area that allows one to post messages to a small geographical area or to a distant user g... Read full Story
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My first time crossdressing with a man
It was Christmas night 2016 and I had gone out to the bar with a few friends. Came home a little tipsy and very horny! I rushed to my room, took off all my clothes and put on a very sexy, slutty outfit (black lace thong with matching bra, a blue sweater, black mini-skirt, and black knee high boots) ... Read full Story
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Karen, My School Teacher Part 5
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Filthy Little Beast Part 2
Chapter 8 The first thing that struck me was pink! More pink satin than I thought existed in the entire world. The walls were covered in baby pink satin curtains, the plush carpet was also baby pink. Like all the other rooms in this house of the bizarre the ceiling as a full mirror. There was a h... Read full Story
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