After a gender change from a man to a woman why is the vaginal cavity smaller than a normal woman's?
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Vagina's are created to allow a penis to fit snugly and to enlarge to let a baby out, for goodness sake tell him to get creative with his foreplay, plenty of kissing and stroking and KY-Gel using a lubricant will make things much better. It sounds as if his partner cant relax and is most likely in pain and wondering what's wrong. Women need to be prepared before the penis penetrates so that both people are able to enjoy the experience.
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Without Nipples the Male Chest Looks Strange.  The nipples provide a focus point for the male chest. They direct the eye to the curve of the pectoral muscle. \n\nMen and women are mammals (from the Latin mamma breast) a species that have breasts and feeds its young with milk. The human embryo has tissue that will evolve into breasts. Both male and female babies are born with nipples and ducts intact. It is the presence of genes that direct hormones to differentiate the breast tissue. The Y chromosome stimulates hormones such as testosterone to form male features.\n\nInsufficient or defective testosterone, poor tissue responsiveness, or an unbalance of other hormones like Estrogen and Prolactin can cause female like breasts even in men (Gynecomastia). At birth, the small amount of the mother's estrogen in the baby can result in small breasts that usually resolve. There can be an inbalance of hormones during male puberty that can result in temporary breast growth, which for most resolves. There are many medical problems and drugs that can cause male breast growth. \n \nThe nipple is actually the central protrusion inside of the pigmented areola. There is a thin muscle just under the skin that when stimulated, tends to flatten the puffed male nipple areola. This muscle when stimulated in a breast feeding woman, projects the nipple for the baby. Nerves that innervate the nipple / areola can produce pleasure for both men and women.
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that is a perfectly normal size. a lot of men are unneccessarily self conscious about the size issue. The attention it recieves is hype. And a woman is only sensitive in the area of the first three inches of her vagina. (don't know about the back door.) So she can recieve just as much stimulation from one as another.
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A woman will tell you size means very little (no pun intended). Technique and foreplay, also loving tenderness, mean everything.\n\n"Dear Alice,\nI was wondering about the depth of the vagina. I've read statistics that say that the average vagina is only 3 to 4 inches deep. This seems way too small to me, since the average penis is considerably longer than that. Wouldn't that mean that most penises would crash into the cervix repeatedly during intercourse? Since this obviously doesn't happen, my question is this: does the vagina actually elongate during intercourse to accommodate the entire length of the average penis? \n \n\nDear Reader,\n\nYes, just as the vagina has the capacity to expand, allowing for the passage of a baby during childbirth, the vagina also has the ability to elongate during intercourse to accommodate a penis. As you mentioned, for some women, the depth from the vaginal opening to the tip of the cervix is 3 to 4 inches when they are not sexually aroused. Other women may have a vaginal depth of five to seven inches. Regardless, during arousal, blood flows to the genital area, and sexual excitement causes the upper two-thirds of the vagina to lengthen by forcing the cervix and uterus to ascend. The vagina also lubricates to help ease penetration. \nSome people think that the vaginal canal is a continuously open space. However, this is a misperception. Think of the vaginal canal as if it were a balloon that is not filled with any air. The walls, which have the potential to expand and elongate, gently touch one another. When something is placed inside, they mold around the width and accommodate the length of a penis, tampon, finger(s), or sex toy.\n\nSometimes during penetration, a penis or other object inserted in a vagina does hit the cervix. This may be an indication that the woman is not physiologically aroused enough; when she is more aroused, her vagina will elongate and her cervix, the neck of the uterus, will lift up and move out of the way. Other times, contact with the cervix can happen if a penis is larger than average or if the thrusting is too deep. Communicating with a partner about the discomfort — "Ouch, that's a little too deep" — and changing sexual positions may be helpful.
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it varies from woman to woman
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If a person is truly a male to female (MtF) transsexual, then they are a woman on the inside, with the body of a male. They are not changing the person they are on the inside- they are changing the body to match the person on the inside.\n\nMany people who are MtF transsexual have learned to ACT like a male, but it's just an act- not the real person. That's why people get confused when the person starts acting like they normally would- as a woman, and not a man. People have only seen this person acting like a man, and not a woman, that's why they think acting like a woman is an act and not the real thing.\n\nBeing a female in a male body is definitely NOT a natural state for a woman to be in, so the male body is not natural for the woman in it.\n\nOK- to answer your question, some male bodied transgendered people manage to avoid the masculinizing effects of testosterone- you know, the baby faces, or girly faces? It makes it SO much easier to present to the world as a woman than someone that has strong masculine features. Hoever, if a person decides to change their sex even after years of exposure to testosterone, there are procedures lumped under the title FFS, Or Feminizing Facial Surgery.\n\nThere are also procedures such as liposuction, breast implants, and long term hormonal therapy.\n\nGoogle this website for some pictures of very pretty MtF transsexuals- Lynn Conway- look under transsexual women's successes and the photos section.\n\nAlso- something to think about- the reason why you never see ugly transsexual women is that most people just assume they are women- it's called stealth- there's no better way to hide than out in the open.\n\nHope this helps  =^.^=\n\nP.S. I am a MtF transsexual- not too bad looking, and if I walked past you in the mall, you would just assume I was just another woman. A little tall and Amazonish, but definitely a girl.
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For male to female transsexuals, yes, the results can be perfectly undetectable- it all looks as real as they come.\n\nFor female to male transsexuals, not so much.  To get the best of the best, it is prohibitively expensive and still doesn't look perfectly right, although it can come close.  But it still has a long way to go.\n\nOh, and as per functioning, yes and no.  Male to female constructed vaginas can either not be self-lubricating the way biological vaginas can, or they can be made to self-lubricate, but then they often still lubricate, but without control- meaning the person may have to wear kotex pads for the rest of their lives.  After surgery, some feeling may have gone, but generally everything feels the same and orgasms are just as fun, if a little different.  They can certainly urinate the same as a woman, as it only takes a little rerouting of the urethra.  And of course, male to female transsexuals can't menstruate or have children, since they don't have the internal workings of women.\n\nFemale to male transsexuals have many different surgeries and consider themselves fully transitioned, so it's a little harder to explain.  The point is that they can definitely still have orgasms, but of course can't ejaculate (unless it is female ejaculation that could be done beforehand, and only if they vagina wasn't sewn up- but even then, it comes from a different place, not from the 'penis').  If the new penis is an extension of the clitoris, then it can certainly get erect, just like women's clitorises.  If it's made of donor flesh, it can't get erect on its own, but FtM's use the same internal pumping erectile device that impotent men use.  If the urethra is rerouted through the clitoris or artificially created penis, then they can certainly pee through the organ like a biological penis.  Of course transmen can't impregnate a woman, since they have no sperm and similar internal structures.\nNeither can the new penises lubricate themselves like biological mens' secrete 'pre-cum'.  But they work well enough.\n\nHope that helps!
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It depends on how and why the surgery was performed.  The woman should talk to her GYN about the specifics of her case.  There's really no one-size-fits-all answer.  Best wishes.
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If you're a woman, the man's unit is either too large or you may have internal lubricating problems.  \nNonetheless, you should visit an OBGYN...
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very simple.breasts are accesory sex organs.due to functioning of estrogen and progestron they are enlarged (and become more rigid)during sexual excitement.
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To tell you the truth, nobody really knows. The best explanation I've been able to find (and frankly it doesn't explain very much) is that nipples aren't a sex-linked characteristic. In other words, nipples are just one of those sexually neutral pieces of equipment, like arms or brains, that humans get regardless of sex. \n\nAs you may know, every human being gets a unique set of 23 pairs of chromosomes at conception. These fall into two categories. One pair of chromosomes determines sex--the XX combination means you become female, the XY combination means you become male. \n\nThe other 22 pairs, the non-sex chromosomes (they're called autosomes), supply what we might call the standard equipment that all humans get. These 22 pairs constitute an all-purpose genetic blueprint that in effect is programmed for either maleness or femaleness by the sex chromosomes. The programming is done by the hormones secreted by the sex glands. \n\nFor example, the autosomes give you a voice box, while the sex hormones determine whether it's going to be a deep male voice or a high female voice. Similarly, the autosomes give you nipples, and the sex hormones determine whether said nipples are going to be functioning (in females) or not (in males).\n\nOne interesting consequence of the developmental set-up just described is that during the very early stages of fetal life, before the sex hormones have had a chance to do their stuff, all humans are basically bisexual. Among other things, you have two sets of primitive plumbing--one male, one female. Only one set develops into a mature urogenital system, but you retain traces of the other for the rest of your life.\n\nIt's tempting, therefore, to say that male nipples are yet another vestige of your carefree bisexual youth. Trouble is, male nipples are hardly vestigial. They're full-sized and fully equipped with blood vessels, nerves, and all the usual appurtenances of functioning organs. Why this should be so nobody knows--in some other mammals, such as rats and mice, male nipple development is completely suppressed by the male sex hormones. (Incidentally, don't start thinking that at one time our human male ancestors must have suckled their young. So far as anybody knows, male lactation has never developed in any mammalian species.)\n\nHuman nipples appear in the third or fourth week of development, well before the sex characteristics. (The sex hormones start to assert themselves at seven weeks.) As many as seven pairs of nipples are arranged along either side of a "milk line," a ridge of skin that runs from the upper chest to the navel. \n\nNormally only one pair amounts to anything, but on about one baby in a hundred you can detect some vestige of the other ones, usually on the order of a freckle. There are cases of women who ended up with an extra breast, which made them freak show candidates not so many years ago. Luckily today the women can avail themselves of corrective surgery while the rest of us can watch Jenny Jones.\n\nAnyway, both male and female babies are born with the main milk ducts intact--the gland that produces milk is there in the male, but it remains undeveloped unless stimulated by the female hormone, estrogen. Occasionally, a male baby is born with enough of his mother's estrogen in his body to produce a bizarre phenomenon known as "witches' milk," with the male glands, suitably stimulated, pumping away at the moment of birth. \n\nIn the adult male, the dormant glands can still be revived by a sufficient dose of estrogen. Actual lactation is rare--only a couple cases have been recorded. But at least one writer (Daly, 1978) has suggested that the "physiological impediments to the evolution of male lactation do not seem individually surmountable." Meaning we may yet see the dawn of the truly liberated household.
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Well, I think the lack of a penis would be much more frustrating for the man than the woman. And, I am assuming that the penis is lost due to some accident and not a sex change operation....so yeah, I love my husband and I would stay.
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Because women's reproductive organs are all on the inside and mens are not, so when women have sex,  all the bacteria that causes STDs are inside of them, as for men all their bacteria is on the outside. Yes bacteria that causes STDs get inside of men but not as much as women
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we are more similar than most realize, esp if we look at the embryological origins of these m-f tissues.\n\nInternally both genders started out with NON-differentiated gonads.  If the XX is present, this turns into an ovary in embryo USUALLY.  If XY is present, then it turns into testes USUALLY.  \n\nIn the embryo there are also BOTH sets of tubes: Wollfian ducts and Mullerian ducts.  Wollfian ducts will become vas deferens.  The Mullerian duct will become the oviduct-Fallopian tubes. Pseudohermaphrodites might not differentiate thoroughly.\n\nExternally we all started out as an anatomical female.  Essentially a guy is a closed up female.  During embryo-fetal development the genitals of the baby are very confusing if you don't know what you are looking at.  Essentially, the penis that grows is an enlarged clitoris.  It has 3 erectile tissues in it, where as the clitoris has 2 erectile tissues.  (clitoris does not have the urethra growing in it, so she does not urinate with a clitoris) Many people call the clitoris a small penis, but embryologically speaking it is the other way around.  Both genders have labia in utero....the labia stay and persist in the female, but if it is an XY, the labia are supposed to close up.  The seam seen on the underside of the scrotum (separating the scrotum into rt-lt halves-compartments to hold each testicle) and the underside of the penis (kinda looks like a scar, but it is NOT a circumcision scar, it is the seam where he closed up when his genitals were more female. \n\nOne of the most common birth defects found in the penis is hypospadius, where the underside of the penis has not closed up all the way and so the urine comes out the underside of the head of the penis instead of the tip of the penis where the normal urethral opening is, thus the penis is not completely masculinized and closed up. There is a rarer deformity called epispadius, but the urine hole is on the top of the head of the penis.\n\nThere are both true hermaphrodites and at least three kinds of pseudohermaphrodites in humans.  True hermaphrodites have both ovary and testis.  Pseudo have either or, but the other organs are all mix-match male and female combinations internally and externally.\n\nDuring embryo development there are critical hormonal changes that help to masculinize the brain of males.  If baby is an XX then the masculinizing hormones are not released and the baby's brain stays feminized.  Mothers who take masculinizing hormones during pregnancy can masculinize their daughter's brains.  They might also turn a normal genetic female into a anatomical male.  (Happins in animals too, can get a whole litter to be males if masc hormones given at critical time of embryo dev.)  \n\nAlso females transexuals who take testosterone as adults will go thru a male puberty and be very transformed a lot within 6 months.  They will grow a lot more hair (beards, body, etc) they will grow a bigger larynx, muscles will get leaner-muscular, voice will deepen, their clitoris will grow to be about the size of a thumb and their sexual aggression with be peaked.  Their family will not recognize them in 6 months.  \n\nThus, males and females are a lot a like.  It is easy to make a male to female transexual surgically because you are taking away the male structures that were ADDED at embryo development.  When you make a male from a female transexual, stuff has to be ADDED to make the female.\n\nThus everyone starts out with the feminized brain, feminized genitalia, and BOTH sets of m-f tubes internally. We have structural homologies of all our organs (in the opposite sex) If all goes well, however, the genetic sex and the internal-external m-f traits all match, PLUS the sexual-gender identity will match the chromosomes and the genitals-gametes-gonads.
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yes the vaginas are diff in every woman that depends on her body size ...the vagina is between 8 to 14 cm ...
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'Male and female human embryos are identical in the early stages of their development. If the fetus receives a Y chromosome from its father, a hormonal signal is produced: the labia fuse to form a scrotum, the gonads develop as testicles and a male results. Otherwise the "default" female remains.  Various structures in the adult reflect the symmetry of male and female and their common embryonic source. Men have nipples because they have already begun to develop when the "switch to male" signal is received. The development of breasts is halted in most--but not all--cases but the nipples are not reabsorbed.'
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"To tell you the truth, nobody really knows." http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_093.html\n\n"Men and women are mammals (from the Latin mamma breast) a species that have breasts and feeds its young with milk. The human embryo has tissue that will evolve into breasts. Both male and female babies are born with nipples and ducts intact. It is the presence of genes that direct hormones to differentiate the breast tissue. The Y chromosome stimulates hormones such as testosterone to form male features."\nhttp://www.plasticsurgery4u.com/male_plastic_surgery/why_men_have_nipples.html