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{{quote|''"If a man got turned into a woman, this is the ''first'' thing he would do."''|'''Ryou Tamura'''}}
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Ooo, yeah...
 
Almost every time a male -- [[First Law of Gender Bending|and it is always a male]] -- gets—gets trapped in some kind of [[Gender Bender]] situation, the first thing the man turned woman does is check out the new equipment. In front of a mirror, if one is available. Often a form of [[Fan Service]].
 
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# Pulling open the collar of the shirt to stare down at the new breasts.
# Pulling open the pants and/or groping to verify that yes, indeed, s/he's all woman. (Though one would suppose that a person's own physiological sensations would give this away ...)
# Grabbing the breasts for final confirmation--likelyconfirmation—likely for somewhat longer than strictly required to verify they are real, which leads to squeezing...and perhaps more squeezing...and maybe even ''more'' squeezing, interrupted by the occasional look of "Ooo!"
# Shocked realization s/he was just feeling him/herself up. (optional) Or alternately, being interrupted by an appalled bystander, usually female.
 
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[[Trope Namer]] is a [[Shania Twain]] song, [[This Index Is Not an Example|which has nothing at all to do with this trope.]]
 
{{noreallife|sorry, we have to impose Wikipedia's "reliable sources" rule on this one.}}
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== Advertising ==
* Captain Kirk does this in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k5VzDBOcpM this British power company commercial]. He gets walloped for it.
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** Ranma averts the trope to the point that he (or she) has gotten so used to his naked female body that he doesn't react much to the sight of naked girls. At worst, he's embarrassed when [[Unwanted Harem|one of his suitors]] tries to use her nudity to get the best of him, but that's only due to her attitude and not her nakedness. On the other hand, she's just as vicious as any real girl when someone ''else'' (such as male suitors) grabs her where she doesn't like being grabbed.
* Keiichi from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' went through the transformation in an episode where he was working with Urd's potion ingredients. He checks his new... bumpers in the trope-specified way, then discovers he is still male from the waist down... and his lower half is pretty excited about the additions on the upper floors.
* Subverted in ''[[To Love LOVE-Ru]]''. When Rito is transformed into a girl, he feels his new breast, checks that he is now all female with his hands, before promptly freaking out and then being to nervous to even see himself naked.
** In ''Darkness'', on the ''fifth'' time he was turned into a girl he has to change clothes and, while initially still embarrassed, he finally reasons that he shouldn't be upset by his own body, then take his first good look at it. He briefly holds his own breasts, but still finds it more alien than arousing.
* Aborted in ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'': Hazumu starts to check herself out but one quick peek at her new breasts is enough. Cue the [[Luminescent Blush]].
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* Averted in ''[[Kämpfer]]'' where main protagonist [[Chaste Hero|Senou Natsuru]] is so pure that he gets terrified with embarrasment just looking at his female self in the mirror or even ''go to the restroom as her'', much less try to find out what his new parts feel like.
** In a later episode, it's hinted that it's been so long since the first transformation that Natsuru is able to walk past his mirror without getting a nosebleed at himself.
* In ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'', at one point [[Token Mini-MoeLoli|Yukari]] has a [[Freaky Friday]] with Fong-Fong, the Chinese youkai. He immediately tries to do the standard "I am now in a girl's body" actions, but is promptly stopped by her hitting him over the head and threatening to give his body a permanent sex change.
** There was a part where an enemy shapeshifter transforms into Kurumu, and claims that it is the first time he has ever turned into a woman. He is nearly overwhelmed by the sensations of his new breasts, but pulls himself together and attacks them.
* Aborted and inverted in ''[[Your and My Secret]]''. When Akira and Nanako [[Body Swap|swap bodies]], Akira is interested in playing with the newly acquired girl bits, but Nanako threatens him into leaving them alone. Nanako seems to have had some fun with Akira's body, though.
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* A Variation happens in ''[[Soul Eater]]'' when Spartoi [[Gender Bender|Gender Swaps]] and [[Large Ham|Black*Star]] announces to the world as normal:
{{quote|Black*Star: [[Captain Obvious|"I Have Gigantic Tits."]] complete with [[Gainaxing]]}}
* In the Punk Hazard arc of ''[[One Piece]]'', {{spoiler|Sanji gets [[Freaky Friday Flip|Freaky Friday Flipped]]ped with Nami.}} He's so overwhelmed he has to be actively prevented from indulging in this trope. {{spoiler|Fortunately, Nami got flipped into [[Hollywood Cyborg|Franky's body]].}} He is, at least, considerate enough to {{spoiler|not to smoke cigarettes without permission.}}
 
 
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* One of the few female-to-male examples appears in ''[[Being John Malkovich]]''.
* Bernard the goat herder from ''[[Stardust (film)|Stardust]]'', after turning into a woman, attracts odd glances by his habit of feeling himself up in public, as well as showing a distinctly unwomanly interest in naked Claire Danes.
* In the movie ''Goodbye, Charlie'', the former womanizer slides his hands (carefully -- itcarefully—it's a 1964 movie) over his (Debbie Reynold's) body in the mirror and mentions how much money he'll save by not needing [[Playboy]] magazines.
* In ''Virtual Sexuality'' the female turned male strips naked and is delighted to discover that she's extremely well-hung. (S)he looks into a mirror and begins to slap her new discovery back and forth between her thighs with a loud, deep smacking sound as (s)he grins sheepishly. A film with a female slant, as I recall...
* Inverted in the ''Carrie''/''Omen'' mashup film ''Fear No Evil'' (1981) where the put-upon protagonist {{spoiler|who just happens to be the Antichrist}} punishes the [[Jerk Jock]] who torments him by giving him female breasts. The horrified guy ''stabs himself to death'' trying to (presumably) cut them off.
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* In ''[[Lullaby]]'' by [[Chuck Palahniuk]] {{spoiler|Helen frees Carl from jail by possessing a police sergeant and releasing him. She then says that she is going to masturbate once he leaves, "for the experience of it."}}
* ''[[The War Against the Chtorr]]''. Ted, a friend of the protagonist who joins the Telepathy Corps, relates a joke played on him as a rookie teep [[Body Surf|whereupon his consciousness was put inside a female body]] for the first time without him being told. After the shock of trying to find his non-existent male genitals the first time he wants to pee, Ted admits he "spent the whole afternoon playing with himself."
* In ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', several of Harry's friends (including some women) disguise as clones of him with Polyjuice Potion. While they don't experiment with the equipment, Harry does complain that none of them are very shy about letting everyone see them/him naked.
* Inverted in ''[[Spellsinger|The Paths of the Perambulator]]'', where the only one in a temporarily sex-changed traveling party to inspect his/her new anatomy is a female-turned-male.
** {{spoiler|Being a talking hinny, with hooves rather than hands, the curious female-to-male wasn't able to touch anything, either.}}
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** When Prue was turned into a guy (they cast a spell to lure a succubus; don't ask), she was less amused.
* In ''[[Farscape]]'''s obligatory body-switching episode, John Crichton ends up in Aeryn Sun's body. When he has a moment alone he unzips Aeryn's vest and proceeds to bounce, shake and giggle at his new playthings. Then he does the obligatory grope, saying "Oh mama!". When caught, he even says, "Hey, I'm a guy, guys dream about this!"
** After the [[Reset Button]] is pressed, Aeryn also implies thatthat—off -- off camera -- shecamera—she did some checking out of her own.
{{quote|'''Aeryn:''' You were in my shoes. I was in your pants.}}
** Dargo and Chiana also have a similar conversation, with implied [[Bizarre Alien Biology]].
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* Another female-to-male switch: in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode ''New Earth'' Cassandra [[Grand Theft Me|takes over the Doctor's body]]: she feels her new self up, does a few experimental moves, and exclaims, "So many parts. And hardly used."
** Then again, she does this when she first takes over Rose: "It's like living in a bouncy castle!" The phrase "Nice rear bumper" is also used. Since Cassandra starts out with... well, sexually, nothing, this could count.
*** Not really: while Cassandra is without a body (and therefore technically sex-less), her personality is ''definitely'' female -- andfemale—and she clearly thinks of herself as such. (She even refers to herself as "The Old Girl".)
** To make this particular example even ''more'' bizarre, in the episode that introduces her character ("End of the World"), she mentions that she grew up ''as a boy'' on Earth. Yup -- LadyYup—Lady Cassandra is a transsexual!
*** She wasn't transsexual - the word's meaning had simply changed/become lost over time, in the same way that they refer to a jukebox as an iPod.
**** Nope, [[Word of God|according to an in-universe biography released in a reference book,]] Cassandra has indeed had this done to her thrice at most.
** There was also the parody special ''The Curse of Fatal Death'', in which the Doctor regenerated into a female body -- andbody—and promptly checked herself out.
*** Who couldn't, with etheric beam locators like '''that'''?!
*** "I've still got my sonic screwdriver. Oh look, it's got ''three'' settings!"
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* An episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' had Dr. Strangepork invent a disintegrating ray in the "Pigs In Space" segment, which he used on both Link Hogthrob and Miss Piggy. He then tried to re-integrate them....but left them stuck in each others' bodies. This leads to a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when Piggy (in Link's body) scolds Link (in Piggy's body), "Don't you dare touch ''you''!"
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[The Man Show]]'' when Adam Carolla [[What an Idiot!|(without thinking)]] decided to [[What Were You Thinking?|try out a machine called the "Jugginator"]] (which turns old or ugly women into Juggy Dancers) on ''himself''; he came out as a shapely woman in a bikini....and upon realizing he was a little, er, "lacking" downstairs, had a [[Naked Freak-Out]] and hastily covered his briefs [[Big No|while screaming: "OH, NO! MY PENIS!"]] Naturally, by the end of the episode [[Status Quo Is God|he had changed back into a man]]. (In this scene, he was played by a Juggy wearing a pair of oversized black eyebrows who mimed the line as Adam dubbed it backstage.)
* Australian comedy series ''[[Full Frontal]]'' did a skit where a man who'd changed sex complained of suffering sexual harassment -- fromharassment—from himself.
* Charlie does this in ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' when he wakes up with breast implants.{{spoiler|It was [[All Just a Dream]]}}.
* In a between-film-segments gag on ''Wolfman Mac's Chiller Drive-In'', a local late-night horror/scifi host show, several cast members' minds were swapped. One character tells a male-in-female's-body to "stop squeezing those" ... only for the next shot to show that he/she is [[Subverted Trope|grasping two rolls of toilet paper, not his/her breasts]].
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Athaina in the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' Player's Handbook Public Service Announcements [http://youtube.com/user/CreativeJuices7 spoof series].
 
 
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** When another (still) female character asks Joyce what it's like to be a guy, she answers with a blush, "Like keeping a little dog around that barks at everything."
* An aversion: when Roy, the hero of ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', is forced to use a belt that temporarily switches his gender for a disguise, he is annoyed by the fact that he has to do it, and avoids any eroticization of his temporary shape. He also remains bald, and notes that "unless a magic item says it regrows hair, it probably doesn't."
** Also note that Roy knew what was going to happen before he put the belt on -- Ranmaon—Ranma doesn't spend a lot of time checking ''his'' breasts either.
* Averted in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' where none of the characters shows any sign of this despite a huge part of the cast getting gender-swapped at one point.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130513035735/http://www.maskedretriever.com/uh/d/20010828.html Lampshaded] in ''[[Umlaut House]]'': after he accidentally sets off [[Mad Scientist]] Rick's [[Transformation Ray]] (originally created to [https://web.archive.org/web/20130513042909/http://www.maskedretriever.com/uh/d/20031104.html help Dr Pegasus out] with a [[Transsexualism|personal problem]]), Volair takes a few moments to figure out what's going on, then, without missing a beat, blithely remarks "This should be worth a few years of entertainment." (Although as it turns out, she only lasts until her next course.)
* Repeatedly done in ''[[Narbonic]]'', both male-to-female and female-to-male; reactions from the victims vary based on how often they've had this happen before.
** Also subverted when a recently girlified Dave observes that "[Breasts] are useless without the thrill of the chase."
* Memorably done in ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]'', pictured above. [http://www.sgvy.com/archives/Edda1/Issue5/Page3.html This strip] also contains a more [[NSFW]] version of this trope.
* Surprisingly rare in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''. It's [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-06-17 strongly] [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-03-24 implied] that Tedd often does this ''intentionally'', but [http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/?date=2004-02-26 that's just how Tedd is]. In the one female-to-male example [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-01-09 Sarah decides she's become a good-looking guy after all.] but there's no actual touching involved. Given the sheer number of [[Gender Bender|Gender Benders]]s in ''El Goonish Shive'' it's more interesting to note the number of characters (Ellen, Elliot, Grace, Justin, Nanase, Susan, and presumably, Vlad) who ''aren't'' shown doing this, implying that only someone like Tedd would actually enjoy it. (Elliot, like Sarah, does [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-07-05 examine his/her new self in a mirror] but that's as far as it goes.)
** Lampshaded in [http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/index.php?arcid=15 an EGS:NP strip] where Tedd and Grace conduct a [[Myth BustersMythBusters]]-style "test" to determine if [[Gender Bender|sudden sex changes]] always result in "man I feel like a woman" and wardrobe malfunctions. Their test subject (Elliot, who's been forced to become a girl often enough that it's not exactly a novelty any more) is not amused.
** Later, after Elliot gets magical powers but all he gets for a while are "turn into a girl" spells, it is theorized in-universe that doing this is the key to convincing his magic that he's satisfied with the spells he got, and is ready for something different. [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-12-13 He still has some problems with this, however.]
** Even Ashley (being the "goody two shoes"… with transformation fetish) is puzzled "[//egscomics.com/comic/2015-07-06 how is taking a peek ''not'' the first thing anyone does after transforming?!]". Elliot admits doing it before, just thinks checking out oneself in a mirror is inappropriate on a date.
* In ''[[Misfile]]'', Ash Upton is [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=27 directly accused] of this. (Though it isn't actually shown.)
** S/he [https://web.archive.org/web/20071028102522/http://www.misfile.com/overlay.php?pageCalled=766 references it again] later on. Interestingly, it's getting beyond [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman]] that Ash finds most disturbing, since it feeds her fears of [[Second Law of Gender Bending|being assimilated.]]
* In the [[Phil Foglio]] guest week on ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Torg gets his mind switched with Zoe's. The first thing Zoe does is turn Torg into a camel (Zoe's body has a cursed tattoo on it -- [[Kudzu Plot|long story]]) to turn the tables on him, which has the unintended effect of crushing the mind swapping machine. Torg spends the interim making money by coding in lingerie on a live webcam; Zoe gets "Torg" arrested for an unspecified misdemeanor. The trope isn't played out as it usually does, but one can imagine it happened somewhere between the comics.
** The funniest part is the opening -- whereinopening—wherein Zoe angrily discovers a bunch of ''her'' clothes in ''his'' closet, only to have Riff explain, load of clean male laundry in hand, that of course Torg had some of her clothes -- heclothes—he'd spent a week in her body, after all. Then she notices said clothes haven't been ''[[Naked People Are Funny|worn]]'', per se...
* Subverted in ''[[The Wotch]]'', where Jason is frequently transformed into a hot redhead (usually by request), and treats the change like wearing his favorite clothes, rather than any sort of sexual thing.
** Though the strip is pretty PG anyway.
* Another female-to-male is in ''[[SSDD]]'', where the artist switches the bodies of two of the main characters, unsually this does involve experimentation, although [http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20000313.html off-panel]
* In ''[[Apple Geeks]]'', after switching back two girls who had [[Freaky Friday|swapped bodies]], they fear that the reversal had affected to other characters in the room. Gina grabs her chest and starts saying [https://web.archive.org/web/20110818113733/http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=424 "I can't stop grabbing my own boobs!"]. Turns out, she was just playing it up.
* Completely avoided in the ''[[Insecticomics]]'', mostly because gender and body structure aren't necessarily linked.
* The "accused but averted" variant also happened in ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]''. Dan was ''shocked'' to be accused of that, especially while shapeshifted as his own sister...
** Not shocked; Dan was outright [[Squick|squick'd]] by the idea of groping what is, in effect, [[Brother-Sister Incest|his sister's]] body -- andbody—and [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_692.php points this out.]
{{quote|'''Dan:''' I look like my sister!! That is like... the anti-hotness!
'''Abel:''' Yeeg! You're telling me! Your sister is ugly when you're angry! }}
* Not quite played straight in ''[[Charby the Vampirate]]'' ([httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20190928220910/https://www.drunkducktheduckwebcomics.com/Charby_the_Vampirate/4786454/ this strip]) because the male in question has his hands bound behind his back; his eyes, however, have the expected reaction.
* Played with by the shape shifter Octopus in ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'', who dislikes the times when he has to shape shift into a woman, noting that it "Makes my dangly bits go away! It weirds me out just thinking about it!" [[Hilarity Ensues]] even further when [http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=67 other issues associated with this come up, and get overheard by a telepath].
* Zip explains the attraction in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140504043103/http://www.sincomics.com/phpAlbum/main.php?cmd=imageview&var1=DDG%2FDDG20.jpg&var2=2 this] ''[[DDG]]'' strip. With added [[Mood Whiplash]].
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1169 #1169], directly after a [[Catapult Nightmare]] in a [[Dream Within a Dream]].
* When Third from ''Jayden and Crusader'' was [https://web.archive.org/web/20120101035508/http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com/2008/06/19/yes-maam/ transformed] he averted this trope entirely skipping the first stage of denial, moving straight to number 2, anger, and never had to experience the remainder.
* ''[[Sexy Losers]]'' plays with this in a very funny and horribly not safe for work manner [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130720072515/http://sexylosers.com/216.html here]. (Note that this is a guy growing breasts, not a full sex change.)
* In the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' [[Fan Web Comic]] by [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140101223725/http://entropymax.com/ Entropy Max], this was averted at first by Yuuno, who was too busy looking for a way to reverse [[Gender Bender|the effects of his close encounter]] with the ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'' aliens. [http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/3159/nanorr32translatedmw6.png Of course, once he'd temporarily given up on finding a cure...]
* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' pulls it [http://yafgc.net/?id=951 here]. (Well, one out of three, anyway. It probably helps that one isn't interested in women and the other's just a kid.)
* In ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]'', Sarin (formerly a man herself) says that ''everybody'' is compelled to check out the new equipment, "whether they admit it or not." The female-to-male Mori denies this but Sarin doesn't believe him.
{{quote|'''Kili:''' Uhm, that's not ''quite'' what I [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/index.php?p{{=}}508361 meant] by "self-discovery".}}
* In ''[[Bard]]'', Vas ''does'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20140501133401/http://barred.smackjeeves.com/comics/825255/initiation-fail/ grope himself] after being turned into a girl, but he seems more confused than aroused.
* A rare G-Rated example (crossing over into [[Third Law of Gender Bending]] territory) occurs in ''[[I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle]]'' when the formerly male protagonist uses her genie powers to explore a whole range of female costumes ranging from a magical girl outfit to a cheerleader's uniform (Based on [[Kim Possible]]) to Rogue from [[X-Men]] . S/he's ''very'' embarrassed when her best friend / "master" catches her at it.
* Another G-rated example occurs in ''[[The Good Witch]]'' when Mike/Michelle realizes that being turned into a little girl allows him to play with dolls.
* When Paul from [[Jix]] gets turned into a girl, he proceeds to grope his/her chest. In the same story arc, when Lauren gets returned to being a woman, she does the same thing having been stuck in a male body for so long.
* Averted in ''[[Girly]]'', where some of the people involved in the [[Freaky Friday Flip]] end up in opposite-gendered bodies, but there's not much reaction to it (though one man-turned-woman comments that this will probably make going to the bathroom awkward).
 
 
== Web Original ==
* In an episode of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924145236/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/bum-reviews/284-sex-and-the-city Bum Reviews] where Chester A. Bum reviewed the Sex and The City movie, at the end he complains about how he walked out of the theatre with high-heeled shoes and a Gucci purse; he figures that he must have turned into a woman and warns male viewers to not see the movie because it will also turn them into women.
* Happens sometimes on [[Furry Fandom|Transfur]]; the trope applies whenever a guy turns into a girl. Lampshaded by one artist in the description of an image.
{{quote|'''TGTF:''' guy > skunk lady. What do you do when you wake up one day to discover you've changed into a skunk girl? The squish test, obvs.}}
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