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September 23, 2014
Daily Mail: Woman Who Owns "Jasmine Tridevil" Website Has Previously Been Suspected of Attention-Grabbing Hoax
Busted.
I mentioned in a comment that I am told that there was a porno clip featuring a "three breasted women" floating around the internet about ten years ago. Her "third breast" was obviously a prosthetic.
And it looks a lot like "Jasmine Tridevil's" own "third breast."
Let me talk about that porno. Of course I'm not talking about Jasmine Tridevil here, who I'm sure is on the up-and-up. (The very name "Tridevil" inspires confidence.)
The trouble with a prosthetic is the edges. The thing that will give it away is where it meets the actual flesh. I'm no expert, but it seems to me likely that a make-up artist will spend a large amount of time trying to get the Fake Flesh Tone of the prosthetic to blend gracefully in to the real flesh tone of the body.
And of course you're going to need some spirit gum to smooth out that edge where latex meets skin.
And these signs of falsity will often be visible to the naked eye.
Best to only show the prosthetic in film, and best to go over all film shot to make sure that no telltale signs of fakeness show up in any photo or clip.
In some shots, the prosthetic will look reasonably realistic. In other shots, a combination of lighting, angle, and degradation of make-up will expose the hoax body part.
Gotta choose 'em carefully.
From the Daily Mail article:
Other facts of Tridevil's story also don't line up, like fact that she shied away from showing her breast when interview by a WTSP reporter this week.
'I don't feel comfortable doing that just yet,' Jasmine said.
Eh, it's pretty charming to see some sexual modesty in today's Young People.
'[Because] that's also going to be on my show where I'm actually walking out on the beach with this top on and I want to save that.'
The only other pictures of her third-breast are self-produced, and no other third-party pictures have emerged...other than the WTSP footage.
In one YouTube clip, Tridevil's third breast appears to be a different skin color than her other limbs.
Limbs?
I never really thought of breasts as being limbs -- not part of "The Classic Four," leastaways.
I don't think a head is a limb, and a head has more of a claim than a breast. At least it's got bones in it.
You can watch WTSP's video here. She briefly lifts up her shirt to show the guy the same "trikini" (as Anna Puma calls it) we see her in a lot.
There, the reporter says that a plastic surgeon told him you couldn't do this operation, even if you wanted to-- there's just no "flesh envelope" on the sternum which can serve as a pocket for an implant.
I think he's saying it's like trying to put a breast implant on your knee.
If David Brooks is "elite," how come he doesn't know as much about freaky porno prosthetics as me?
Oh. Oh right.
Right, actual elite people do not know about sicko porn stunts.
Okay I'll give him that one.
via @comradearthur.
Joke credit: "Busted" thanks to "your friendly Ebola river guide."