And used in making so many beautiful things ...! The [microchips](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit) on which our electronic Society is built, obviously, but [silicone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicone) polymers also have a wide range of applications in industrial and consumer products.
-Today, I'd like to talk about some ... _consumer_ products.
+Today, I'd like to review some ... _consumer_ products.
-Except—this isn't actually a chemistry fanblog. If you'd rather avoid discussion of certain _consumer products_, you might want to stop reading and close the tab now.
+Except—this isn't actually a chemistry fanblog. If you'd rather avoid being spiritually contaminated by discussion of certain _consumer products_—specifically, pornography-equivalents for men who love women and want to become what they love—you might want to stop reading and close the tab now.
-[TODO: better intro/transition]
+Come back next month! We're not always like this; this is usually a blog about the _science and philosophy_ of autogynephilia, not the _practice_ of it. It's just—I need to host this page of product reviews somewhere, and because science and philosophy unfortunately require some amount of empirical data, this is the place.
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+<p class="flower-break">⁕ ⁕ ⁕</p>
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+... if you're still here (why?!), the reviews follow.
### [Gold Seal NAKED Silicone Bodysuit](https://thebreastformstore.com/gold-seal-naked-silicone-bodysuit/)
<a href="/images/bodysuit_zipper_error.jpg"><img src="/images/bodysuit_zipper_error.jpg" width="240" style="float: left; margin: 0.4pc;"></a>
-[One of the disappointing things about breastforms is that they're noticeably—not actually part of your body.](/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/#first-breastforms) There is an _edge_ between the form and your actual chest.
+One of the disappointing things about breastforms is that they're [noticeably—not actually part of your body.](/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/#first-breastforms) There is an _edge_ between the form and your actual chest.
-In contrast, this bodysuit featuring fake breasts _and_ a fake vulva, all in one piece, seemed like an appealing thing to try out. Compared to breastforms, the bodysuit promised to offer a "bottom" experience, and, not a more _seamless_ transformation on "top", but rather to put the seams in a potentially less conspicuous location (at the neck/arms/legs, rather than on the chest where they interfere with the illusion of actually having breasts).
+In contrast, this bodysuit featuring fake breasts _and_ a fake vulva, all in one piece, seemed like an appealing thing to try out. Compared to breastforms, the bodysuit promised to offer both a "bottom" experience, and, not a more _seamless_ transformation on "top", but rather, to put the seams in a potentially less conspicuous location (at the neck/arms/legs, rather than on the chest where they interfere with the illusion of actually having breasts).
It only comes in one size, but according to the sizing chart, I ought to fit given my 37½″ underbust measurement.
-... it did not fit. I did _substantial_ damage to the suit just struggling to get it on: ripping a huge tear in the back to the left hip, _and_
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-(In retrospect, I should have taken care to heed the direction to apply talcum powder to my skin and the inside of the suit, before stuggling so much.)
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- * I could not get this on, at all: huge rip on the back side, and the zipper came off; the former seems unambiguously like "my fault", but the zipper actually seems like low-quality product?
- * should've listened to the baby powder direction before trying to squeeze it on
+... I did not fit. It took a huge stuggle just to get the suit on at all, and I did substantial damage to it in the process, ripping a huge tear in the back (from the center to the left hip), _and_ derailing the zipper, _and_, somehow, detaching the sides of the zipper from the suit (!?).
+In retrospect, I should have taken care to heed the direction to apply talcum powder to my skin and the inside of the suit, before stuggling so much, and on that count, I'll easily accept the rip in the back as "my fault", but the way the zipper derailed and detached so easily seems like more of an indicator of a low-quality product?
+After the struggle
+The cleavage is visually nice (no seam when looking own at one's chest!), but the breasts hung significantly too low—
-The breasts hang significantly too low—but
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+I would describe the overall effect as "cartoony."
* hard to fit member in urination option, I swear it leaked urine out side?—not sure how the hydraulics worked there
+"The most jiggle and bounce imaginable"
- * cleavage is nice
* also: can't masturbate with the bottom on!
-I would describe the overall effect as "cartoony."
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-Customer service was very nice and helpful when I wrote to them about my experience.
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The product page had already warned that all sales of this item were final (would _you_ want to buy one of these used?)
+Customer service was very nice and helpful when I wrote to them about my experience.
- * customer service was very nice and helpful, offered glue for zipper (I assume they don't hire actual women for those jobs)
+offered glue for zipper (I assume they don't hire actual women for those jobs)
* I ended up cutting it in half to try to wear the pieces separately, but the cut was a little too below waist for the now-"shorts"
* I like the idea, but overall, do not recommend
-
**Cost:** $600
-**Rating:** ★½
+**Rating:** ★
### [Crea FX Taylor Silicone Mask](https://www.creafx.com/en/special-make-up-effects/taylor-silicone-mask/)
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-<a href="/images/mask_plain.jpg"><img src="/images/mask_plain.jpg" width="240" style="margin: 0.4pc;"></a>
-<a href="/images/mask_with_wig_and_rose-colored_glasses.jpg"><img src="/images/mask_with_wig_and_rose-colored_glasses.jpg" width="140" style="margin: 0.4pc;"></a>
+<a href="/images/mask_plain.jpg"><img src="/images/mask_plain.jpg" width="200" style="margin: 0.1pc;"></a>
+<a href="/images/mask_with_wig_and_rose-colored_glasses.jpg"><img src="/images/mask_with_wig_and_rose-colored_glasses.jpg" width="165" style="margin: 0.1pc;"></a>
</div>
It really looks like a woman's face!
-The skin color and texture is much more realistic than the cartoon beige of the Gold Seal bodysuit reviewed above.
+The skin color and texture is much more realistic than the cartoon beige of the Gold Seal bodysuit reviewed above. (I wonder how much it helps that Crea FX are visual-effects artists by trade—makers of male masks and monster masks for movies and plays—rather than being in the MtF business specifically, like the Breast Form Store. They know—I assume they _must_ know—that a lot of their female masks are purchased by guys like me with motives like mine, but we're not the _target_ demographic, the reason they mastered their skills.)
-(I wonder how much it helps that Crea FX are visual-effects artists by trade—makers of male masks and monster masks for movies and plays—rather than being in the MtF business specifically like the Breast Form Store. They know—I assume they _must_ know—that a lot of their female masks are purchased by guys like me,
+Getting the mask on and off was no problem at all.
- * somehow looks worse in photographs than it does in the mirror?]
+ * somehow looks worse in photographs than it does in the mirror?] standing a distance from the mirror in a dark hotel room, I actually bought it?!
+
* worst nonrealism: visible eyeholes; fix—sunglasses?
* going to reprise Ens.-Sylvia-Tilly-wearing-sunglasses at Fan Expo 2022 to see if I can pass at all
* Is it possible that I stretched out the nose area??
- * standing a distance from the mirror in a dark hotel room, I actually bought it?!
+
**Cost:** €672
**Rating:** ★★★★½
stock phrase "Mark had always been fascinated by women. He loved the way they looked, the way they smelled, the way they sounded"
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/t9svvNPNmFf5Qa3TA/mysteries-of-mode-collapse-due-to-rlhf
+
**Cost:**
**Rating:** ★★★
* I didn't masturbate from Sat. until Wed. in anticipation of trying on the mask in a hotel room; I was delighted that I came a little bit (entirely flaccid) while shitting—that's a sign that I had succeeded in building up, and yet somehow I didn't feel very horny or get as much pleasure when the time came? Maybe I'm getting old?
-"The most jiggle and bounce imaginable"
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