Whatever their individual reasons might be, some men are just determined to look like women. The easy, non-permanent solution is, of course, cross-dressing. But when you’re six feet tall with shoulders like a linebacker, all the wigs and high heels in the world aren’t going to hide that manly jawline and five o’clock shadow. Try as they might, some cross-dressers are destined to always just look like dudes wearing wigs.

I can only imagine this is the problem which initially led to “masking” - a fetish/hobby/whatever where cross-dressing men wear rubber masks of feminine faces in an attempt to look like the perfect female. The problem is, these faces are far from perfect. Most of them are downright terrifying.

Maskon seems to be the major hub for masking activity on the internet. You’ll find a lot of links and images there, including a large collection of photo galleries of maskers from around the world. They each go by the invented name of their female pseudonym. At best, they look like a doll come to life. At worst, they look like, well… this:

She kind of looks like what would happen if Joan Rivers and Michael Jackson mated in the pool of toxic chemicals that created The Joker:

joanmichaeljoker!

Is anyone else wondering in horror why we can see Joan Rivers’ nipple in that picture?

Anyway… Maskon even hosts conventions where maskers can get together, and… I don’t know. Hang around wearing masks, I suppose. The beauty of these self-created masks is that they allow you to not only be the perfect human woman, but even the perfect Martian woman, or the perfect Klingon woman. Check out this group:

At its most elaborate, the fetish extends to a full-body rubber woman suit, as is proudly displayed on angelinadoll.com:

And since I know you were wondering - yes, there are full-on porn sites for the masking fetishist. At Rubber Sisters, a modest membership fee will gain you access to all the hot plastic religious-bondage-themed lesbian-but-not-really girl-on-kindof-girl action you can handle:

With each picture this is starting to feel more and more like the combined wet dreams of Marilyn Manson and David LaChapelle.

If you’re ready for a mask of your own, you can custom-order one here for $125, which is a hell of a lot cheaper than plastic surgery, and damned if the results aren’t more or less the same. I’ve seen plenty of mutant plastic surgery victims walking around Beverly Hills whose faces didn’t look any better the woman on the right here:

Thanks again to Tam for the link.

Posted in role-playing, gender confusion at 4:15 am