Title: The Lazy Crossdresser Author: Charles Anders Publisher: Greenery Press Publish Date: 2002 Pages: 177 Genres:: Transgendered/Transsexual, How-To Guide, Self-Help Reviewer: SexHerald Staff

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No matter what you do, there’s always someone coming up with a way to do it better. In the transvestite department, that someone is Charles Anders.

Having a vagina is not a requirement to dress like a woman. Whether you overdress, underdress, crossdress or headdress, putting on your clothes is a chore best accomplished simply and efficiently. In The Lazy Crossdresser, author Charles Anders aims to not only help dissipate the mists of shame swirling around men who crossdress, but to make the practice a straightforward process.

The makeup advice, gleaned by Anders from a skincare expert friend, makes you feel like you could be reading any everywoman’s magazine. There’s also a section devoted to how a crossdresser can most comfortably conceal his penis from view through women’s clothes, a technique called tucking. Like any responsible fashion advisor, he also cautions against wearing uncomfortable underwear, although from the sound of it, worrying about painful underwear after shoving your genitals over to one side into a groin crease seems irrelevant. He also explores the differences between straight men who wear women’s clothing for a sexual thrill and men who go all the way down the surgical road to physically become and live like women permanently.

A crossdresser himself, Anders wants you to benefit from his experience and even seeks to protect you from the pain of a chafed irritated chest which he strongly suggests not shaving it every day. He also instructs how to apply foundation over a pending or arrived five ‘o clock shadow.

Although Anders seems to underplay the dangers of appearing dressed as a woman while visibly male in an often uncompassionate society, he does responsibly warn readers who cross-dress to be prepared for nastiness from the public. He also recommends taking self-defense courses for women. Anders also cautions that taking on a woman’s outer physical accoutrements can lead men right into the mire of the bad body image that plagues so many women when their clothes don’t look right, fit right or are too small. Anders doesn’t flinch at discussing the social difficulties of peacefully buying women’s clothes when you are a man, much less trying them on. His dressing room stories punctuate this fact.

Self-acceptance even in the face of strenuous objection and ridicule usually still leads to a happier life, a point that underscores the entirety of the text within The Lazy Crossdresser; that and comfortable underwear is a must.