Joanna's review of crossdresser sites

I been thinking about how I stick to the same few sites for most of my picture-posting activities and chatting etc. It's not because I'm a creature of habit, but because websites that are pretty poor really don't make much effort to change their ways.

Here's my current impression of the free websites I use... and most of them haven't changed much since I started with them. I'll give each one a rating out of 10.

flickr rating: 5

I like this for the groups, you can add a pic to an interest group and show stuff to like-minded people. Not a dedicated sex site, tries to be all things to all people. Bad thing is, people get banned for reasons that aren't always clear. Read the help threads and you'll see loads of complaints. If it weren't for that nagging doubt, I'd pay for premium membership (to get extra upload capability and the option to create lots of sub-folders or albums).

[edit: on 14 Oct, got another warning and they didn't tell me why. So I'm not going to contribute any more pix. I'm tempted to downrate the site to 2 or 3, but I don't want to rewrite history!]

newbudnudes ("NBN") rating: 9

Current fav. I like the chat and almost always get someone wanting to chat to me. I'm never ignored. Pic gallery is easy to navigate. Easy browsing of male gay porn and lots of crossdressers. Pic voting is strange sometimes. Forum is very quiet. This is the only site EVER where I've spent out on a membership upgrade (so that I can download full-size pix).

celection rating: 7

yep, correct spelling. Site well-coded and excellently laid out. Mixed sex pix, with a regular crossdress contribution. A nice feature is the photo subject 'challenge' (eg, invite tan line pix, or whatever). Drawback is, only paying members can download pix (although you can always use Print Screen, if you can be bothered to.)

yourpantyhose rating: 1

All uploads await moderation approval, and the site code is drab in appearance and function, so I rarely bother visiting. The page formatting convulsions when logging in are enough to put most people off, I would imagine.

tvChix rating: 3

Chat's busy and newcomers can be ignored. Not a porn site, more of a contact site. So there's no decent gallery system. Forum can be friendly or obsessively snotty, depending on who's been posting.

trannyrepublic rating: 7

A new kid on the block, and they're still developing the site options. Rather like a cross between newbudnudes and tvChix: an accessible pic gallery but profile searches can be done too. Forum and chat currently haven't taken off, but I think the site shows a lot of promise.

livevideo rating: 3

Supposedly an adult version of youtube, it strikes me as dead-in-the-water. Nice idea, but it hasn't really worked. Well, not for crossdressers, anyway. Nothing wrong with the site code, it's just lacking in participants.

youporn rating: 6

Some website statistics rank this as the top adult site in the world. Shows videos in FLV (flash) form and allows free download of them. (They can be viewed later on with things like VLC Player.) So many people visit, that you'll get lots of hits no matter how obscure your videos are. Can seem a bit impersonal, though.

xtube rating: 7

Videos can't be downloaded. The site also caters for pix but I rarely bother. It's a very busy site and lots of stuff, so it's easy to feel overlooked. But there's a lot of friendly people there and you'll probably get lots of friend requests if you stick around!

youtube unrated: it's not a porn channel

Anything approaching porn, and you're likely to be banned, so extreme caution required. Slightly erotic is OK, but no more than that. On the plus side, the site coding is pretty well second to none. I'm sure you all know how well the site works, so I'll say no more!

xpeeps rating: 3

Shame this site's a victim of what strikes me as shabby coding. For instance, to upload a new pic, you don't click on 'my photos' or 'xpose yourself' - you have to hover on the 'My Profile' button and ignore the dropdowns, and just click that button. And then, on the new page, select 'Manage my galleries' and then click the 'Upload Photos' link. The coding is better than in 2007 but still not enough to make me visit more than once a month. Page loading failures are still common, so remember where your BACK button is, if you go there.

newbienudes ("NN") rating: 6

A mixed sex version of the gay site 'newbudnudes', the site coding is ahead of newbudnudes in general options. And it's around 10 times more popular than NBN. I go there mainly for the MILFs and BBWs.

OK, so that's my snapshot of what sites I like (and how much I like them). These are my own personal views and I'd be interested to hear what you think!

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Is Halloween a good night to come out of the closet?

Been thinking... a closet gurlie like me, Halloween would be a good night to venture out, wouldn't it?

If I turn up to a nightclub and anyone thinks I look strange, well, it's that sort of evening and I can get away with it.

Maybe I wouldn't dress like in this pic from Halloween 2008 though!


(That pic I posted on the internet and just stayed safely indoors. Didn't want to scare anyone!)


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Exposed to the public

Recently I was sunbathing on the grass, in just my tight orange beach shorts, and I counted the number of windows that I could see, where neighbours could have been having a peep at me. It was ten.

I got horny, thinking "Hey you lot, I bet you don't realise I'm an internationally-known porn star!"

Well, I'm not really a "star" but I do have friends in several continents, so that takes care of the "international" bit! Anyway, the thought made me smile.

And yes, I wouldn't mind at all if a voyeur enjoyed looking at me through his binoculars.

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Left thinking about my sudden death

Yesterday, was brought face-to-face with my own mortality!

Literally.

On a two-lane blacktop I drove round a sharp corner... and didn't expect someone charging towards me, on my side of the road! He was completing a rash overtaking maneuvre, and both I and the car being overtaken hit brakes savagely and steered into our own sides of the road... and the loony squeezed through the gap between us.

For the next mile, I was in a sombre moood. Suppose I'd got killed back there? All my stuff on the internet would cease to be updated, and a few people would think, "Oh, I wonder what happened to Joanna Slinky..." and then just get on with stuff.

Most people who know me by my legal name would get to hear the news, but people who know me as "Joanna Slinky" would hear nothing.

Maybe some would think I'd had a "tranny purge" where crossdressers get a fit of the guilts and stop crossdressing! Some friends would keep messaging or emailing me, and would wonder why I was suddenly ignoring them.

I can't really imagine having a trannie purge. If I vanish for ever, it could be that... or, more likely, I've had a bad day on the UK roads!

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crossdressing in a cyber war zone

My fav site is still newbudnudes... I've got over 1,000 pix posted there now, and I often hang out in the chat room, and visit the forum, too.

It can be a strange place, though. There's only a few thousand active members, and lots of crossdressers there, but sometimes my pix get a pretty rough ride.

Like this one...



which only has 72 views so far, and only 2 votes, both of which were voting it down!

There's currently a bit of a war going on, crossdressers v ordinary gays.

The latter want to see men looking like men, rather than trying to look like women. I can see where they're coming from (if you'll pardon the expression) but the site - a gay site - has always had a picture category for lingerie, and when signing up, you can choose your gender as 'transgendered' so us CDs think we're not gatecrashing. But some of the non-CDs see it as their mission to bad-vote us gurlies, and slag us off in the forum! Oh, well. It's still my fav site.

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