 The Silence of the Lambs has a transphobic message Hollywood is a routine offender in promoting transphobia and cissexism—the negative attitudes and discrimination directed toward people whose gender identity, or perceived expression, is different from the sex they were assigned at birth. In my view, few films are as offensive as Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs, which demonizes and delegitimizes transgender individuals through portraying the serial killer, Jame Gumb—otherwise known as Buffalo Bill—as a psychotic transgender person. At the same time, normative expressions of gender are idealized as innocent. The result is a transphobic dichotomy with cisgender and transgender positioned as moral opposites. For those who haven’t seen the film, Silence of the Lambs follows FBI Academy student Clarice Starling, played by Jodi Foster, as she solves a recent string of murders in the Midwest committed by the serial killer known as Buffalo Bill, played by Ted Levine. She enlists the help of an incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer and former psychiatrist, Hannibal Lecter, who analyzes the case files in order to uncover Buffalo Bill’s true identity. In this process, Starling discloses a traumatic event in her childhood involving waking up to the screaming of lambs about to get slaughtered. She ran away from her family ranch, attempting to save one of the lambs, but was unable to. Here, lambs are a symbol of innocence. Starling’s inability to save them and her subsequent nightmares are manifestations of her guilt. The film’s title is a reference to the end of Starling’s nightmares, when the screaming lambs become silent, ideally through her solving the Buffalo Bill case and saving his living victim, Catherine Martin. Throughout the film, it is revealed that Buffalo Bill is a transgender woman. She has applied for sex-reassignment surgery, cross-dresses, and prefers to hide her penis between her legs. Ultimately, Starling saves Martin through the clues that Lecter slowly discloses in exchange for a chance at a prison with better living conditions. In the end, Starling kills Gumb, and the closing scene of the film is of Lecter’s escape and intent to kill Frederick Chilton, a doctor who worked at Lecter's prison.  The trope of the killer transgender appeared in Psycho (1960) Jame Gumb’s gender identity is handled in a number of very problematic ways. First, her character is a classic example of the killer transgender trope, also famously present in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Transgender women are often represented as psychotic killers as a lazy method of responding to mainstream society’s fear of gender nonconforming people. This popular trope in film reinforces the idea that being transgender is unnatural and perverted, and pathologizes gender fluidity. It’s a stowaway on the Hollywood global distribution machine, reaching into countless theaters and homes around the world and embedding transphobia in the minds of a wide array of viewers. In reality, the opposite of the killer transgender trope is true. Often, transgender people, specifically women, are the victims of hate crimes based on their gender identity. In 2012, transgender women were victims of nearly 54% of anti-LGBT related homicides. Perhaps the dehumanizing representations of these individuals in mass media helped spread the idea that transgender lives are less valuable, and by extension, murdering them is more justifiable.
A closer look at the diction of Lecter’s quote reveals more subtle issues. His use of the word “more” before “savage” and “terrifying” implies that there are savage and terrifying elements to actual transgender people. Since Hannibal Lecter is a serial killer himself, one might question his credibility as an arbiter of the film’s overall message. However, in addition to being a sociopathic serial killer, he was also a brilliant psychiatrist, whose analysis of the Buffalo Bill case files led to Gumb’s ultimate demise. His views regarding Gumb are highly regarded and portrayed as astoundingly accurate. Therefore, his psychoanalysis of Gumb represents the ultimate message of the film itself and should be seriously considered. One of the most memorable scenes in Silence of the Lambs is the one where Gumb dresses up in a flowing cloth, tucks her penis between her legs, and poses in front of a mirror, all while wearing the hair and scalp of one of her victims. This scene is often touted as the film’s most disturbing moment. Buffalo Bill is supposed to be scary not only because she murders and skins her victims, but because she is male-bodied in women’s clothing. The “cross-dressing” is portrayed as especially sinister and perverted, but to stand or dance in front a mirror with one’s penis tucked between her legs is an exercise many transgender women actually perform. The film distorts this completely normal and often empowering activity with the juxtaposition of Catherine Martin screaming for help from the bottom of a dry well in the background. Real life transgender people may internalize this scene, and think that they should hide their non-normative gender expressions at the expense of their emotional well-being. In addition to demonizing and stigmatizing gender fluidity, Silence of the Lambs idealizes normative gender expression. Conformity to gender roles is seen as innocent, an antithesis to gender variance. This is emphasized in the scene in which Gumb applies lipstick as she utters the chilling line, “Would you fuck me? I’d fuck me. I’d fuck me hard.” This scene is cut at the same time as Martin screams from the bottom of the well, just as the lambs screamed. Nobody could hear Martin, she was effectively silenced. The film showed a few seconds of Gumb, then switched back to a few seconds of Martin. Martin is illustrated as the innocent victim, conforming to the gendered damsel in distress trope, in contrast to Gumb, who is the gender-bending killer. It is important to identify transphobia in films for a variety of reasons. In addition to media reflecting the prevalent attitudes and ideas of a society, media can also shape the ideas of a society. The negative representations of transgender people in visual media, especially film, contribute to their overall discrimination. In addition to the disproportionate amount of transgender women killed in anti-LGBT homicides, there is a high frequency of suicide among this subjugated population. 41% of Americans who are transgender or gender nonconforming have attempted suicide at least once in their lives. This startling statistic may be related to the lack of positive media representation for transgender people. Identifying transphobia and cissexism in film is a means of placing the responsibility back on media corporations and holding them accountable for how they portray marginalized groups. Fair portrayals of oppressed groups of people leads to an awareness of their real life issues. For transgender people, such issues include job discrimination, violence, healthcare, and exclusion in a variety of spaces. In real life, transgender people are not the killers, but rather the innocent victims of horrific hate crimes. The film Silence of the Lambs ignores this fact, effectively silencing the lambs. Savannah Staubs Savannah Staubs is an undergraduate sociology major and activist at University of Maryland, College Park. She skillfully avoids employment by illustrating zines, collecting leaf skeletons, playing her ukulele, and studying environmental justice.
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Moth
1/8/2015 10:40:17 pm
While I agree that the movie itself is transphobic, I feel it important to also note that in contrast to the film's cissexism and demonizing of transgender people, in the eponymous novel by Thomas Harris, there is a segment that covers some of the territory you did. In chapter 28, Crawford visits Dr. Danielson, who works at the Gender Identity Clinic. Danielson notes, much like you did, that statistics prove that among transgender people, "The incidence of violence is a lot lower than in the general population". While this does not excuse a lot of the transmedicalist and cissexist references to trans people -- in both the novel and film -- it's interesting that the author considered putting that in.
Louis Friend
2/12/2015 12:46:33 am
It seems to me that this article and your comment are really stretching here. I'm fairly sure the movie says "that transsexuals are generally very placid and not violent" or words that effect. Also how many transgender killers are there in movies, i can find four. Which to my mind hardly constitutes a massive attempt at demonizing people. Furthermore none of the people represented are the way they're by dint of being transgender (I'd say the one in camp sleepaway isn't really transgender at all) but have rather snapped after terrible abuse. In most cases of serial killers particularly white men (just a general comment, no other meanings or insinuation) they are seen to be evil due to their inherent nature. Instead transgender people get a more of an out by having been portrayed as have been driven to their actions rather than actively seeking them out. So while you may disagree with the terminology in the film and you have a right to do so. It seems that attacking it simply for portraying someone who wants a sex change as capable of evil on the grounds of trans-phobia falls flat when the movie goes to some pains to point out the Jame Gumb is so vast an exception to the rule as to almost qualify for a different category.
Amy
6/27/2015 11:49:06 pm
There are countless instances in the media of negativity toward's non gender variant. The key thing here is that there are few instances prior to 2005 where this group is portrayed in a neutral or positive manner. This also has to do with the historically straight male dominated control centers in the media.
Amy
6/28/2015 12:01:56 am
The most important thing that people are missing is it doesn't matter if the subject is a textbook transsexual. This person is clearly gender variant in the feminine direction and is thus fair game. It speaks directly to societies attitude that feminine expression (especially from a male) or being female is a second class position. This is exactly how straight male dominated society thinks.
Ice Bergen
10/30/2015 12:06:57 am
Silence of the Lambs won 4 academy awards. You aren't trans I assume, you don't know how it affects someone who is. I am trans, I know. Maybe my experience can't be generalized, but I reckon it can.
Billy Rubin
6/21/2017 06:31:39 pm
You are CORRECT. Early in the movie, Clarice Starling insists to Dr. Lecter, "there's no correlation between (in this case) transvestites and violence. Transvestites are very passive..."
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Eva
2/17/2015 04:22:34 am
From reading this article I can see that either A) You didn't watch the film with your full attention and you missed key parts or B) You watched the film but you had a preconceived notion that you would find it offensive/transphobic...and because of that, your judgement was blurred.
Ice Bergen
10/30/2015 12:10:49 am
It is not "VERY explicit," it is mentioned as an offhand muse of Hannibal Lector. Should the audience be wise enough to believe a cannibal villain, as smart as he may be?
Lorelei
2/24/2018 05:42:42 pm
As a transwoman, and a HUGE lover of the book and film, I agree at least mostly with Eva. It is stated several times in the film and book that Bill is not a true transsexual, and instead that Bill is something very different. I would also like to say that while there are several fictional killers who impersonate the opposite sex I dont see any of them being actual trans people of any kind; ex. Norman Bates was not dressing as a woman because he believed he was a woman, but dressed as his mother specifically because of psychological issues that revolved around her. These characters may, to someone not paying attention, seem like a trans person but in reality their actions and impersonations aren't based on sexuality or gender identity but instead stem from trauma. Bill didn't become a killer because he wanted to be a woman and couldn't get a reassignment surgery, it's stated that he had actually already killed his grandparents completely not connected to his pattern of making a woman suit, he had already murdered his ex lover, whose head Starling finds. Also other than a single time in which he tucks himself, which I believe is something just about every boy did at least once in their formative years if not later in life, Bill is never presenting female. Even when, to Bill, he is presenting female it is in no way done in the way any transsexual ot transgender person actually would. Being transgender means wanting to feel beautiful in ones own skin, not wear someone else's. At no point on time could Bill have thought, "once this skin suit is done I'll be wearing it all the time out of the house. His identity problems were about a private sadistic gratification, not any form of gender dysphoria. I think that the early set up of it being said, "as an expert/trained psychologist he is not transsexual" is where they basically shut down your ideas that this film/book is transphobic. Also, as Bill is based on several true to life killers who equally were not trans but did things like Bill that may have seemed trans. As for the wording and stereotyping; statistics aren't stereotypes and how can you say an audience isn't quick enough to catch them State plainly that Bills not transsexual but expect people to catch a single sentence that may have undertones of transphobia in its wording.
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Liam
6/16/2016 09:26:27 pm
Thank you, this entire article was obviously created by someone who wasn't paying very much attention to the film, maybe the author should have reviewed his/her notes before posting the article!
Sofia
7/13/2016 02:24:53 am
Yes, even though the comment was kind of rude and aggressive, I agree.
GratefulJoeNJ
1/12/2017 08:38:08 am
You missed the critical ASSUMPTION that the author present.s as FACT. THAT IS: you are transgender if you say you are.
Roberts
3/14/2017 03:09:05 am
That's factually incorrect, Transgender is day to day term for a medical condition called body dismorphia which in turn is diagnonsed by a trained medical proffesional. You don't decide you are trans-you either are or are not, your personal desires are irrelivant.
Paul Krendler
10/16/2017 06:25:04 am
You said everything I was going to. Couldn't have said it better myself. Completely agree.
An Idiot
6/24/2018 11:06:02 pm
I agree that Bill is clearly not meant to be a true transexual person . The "savage and terrifying" line is the clincher. In it, Lecter explains to us quite succinctly whats going on. Dude doesn't have actual gender dysphoria. He just hates himself and is a super sick puppy.
Joe Flynn
6/25/2018 03:21:36 am
This and many of the other responses in this thread are thoughtful rejoinders to the lead. Every human being has some touch at least of pathology. The main point of the doctor's comment is that someone trying to be something they are not will inevitably have deeper pathology than the real article. Just look at the spectacle off all these faux Chrstians running around these days. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. People pretending to be Christians when they are not have fallen quite a bit further than the average genuine Christian.
Alex
2/21/2015 03:53:38 pm
If you read the book, it very thoroughly explains a few aspects of trans women and the process they have to go through. There is even a scene in the book where Crawford, the behavioral science section chief, has a talk with a doctor at John's Hopkins, and this doctor asserts over and over that trans people are not crazy, and that they need help and understanding. This and other scenes are not in the film, but they explicitly point out in the film that Bill is not transsexual. Bill is in essence the kind of person who would see a transsexual woman the way he depicts one, I think. He thinks that if he becomes a woman/adult/his mother, he will be free from his mental anguish (this is what the butterfly/moth symbolism is referring to, according to Lecter the the butterfly is a symbol of ones parent, or ones ability to become an adult). It becomes clear, in the book at least, that he's trying to sort of "replace" his mother by being a woman. He both hates her (for abandoning him) and worships her. I'm one of those people who usually favors the book over the movie, but I'd say the film definitely doesn't explain enough to deter ignorant people from associating trans women and Buffalo Bill based on imagery alone. I don't know, the film is one thing, but if you read the book there is a lot of in depth information on trans people and it's definitely not transphobic. If anything it comments on the ignorance surrounding trans people pretty well. I wish they didn't leave that stuff out but you can only put so much into a movie.
Alex
2/21/2015 04:14:44 pm
Having said all that, I think I should point out that the trans community could do without any representation that is too easy to misinterpret as negative. I'm sure a lot of people didn't read the book, and the imagery in the film is enough to add to the negative, but likely common, mental image of a trans woman as a crazy man in a dress. For this reason I think they should have put a lot of the scenes they left out into the movie, instead of presenting it as a horror film full of monstrous stereotypes. If you read the series, even Lecter turns out to be a trauma victim from the second world war, who needs extensive mental health care. The film certainly demonizes the mentally ill by portraying the characters without putting any emphasis on the background information. It also portrays Starling in a much more sexist light than the book does. The entomologists Starling consults are portrayed as almost mentally deficient in the film, whereas in the book they are just regular nerdy guys who are professional and well educated. They have to make movies this way to sell them to widest audience possible, so I'd have to agree with your main point at least, effectively this film does little for the real life equivalent of the people it portrays. 2/21/2015 10:35:02 pm
It occurred to me while watching this film for the tenth time that there would be outrage, so I’ve paused it, and first search engine result? Your Blog! Wow! Where to start? I don’t know if you’re transgendered or just a bleeding heart liberal seeking to rid the world of hurt feelings, but I have to agree with the other posts that you’re way off on this.
Alex
2/23/2015 10:39:22 am
Dude, I have to agree with you that the trans community is filled with ridiculously convoluted, and seemingly arbitrary rules. I am trans myself and I think that trans people are doing more harm than good being so oversensitive. I want you to know that not all of us are like that. I can grasp that this isn't easy to understand, and it's up to us not to ask for SO MUCH when it comes to how people deal with us. It drives me nuts when trans people expect non-trans people to memorize all these rules. Having the right to medical care and legal protection is a real issue. I think it's kind of self absorbed to expect people to tiptoe around us, I mean how is that going to get us any closer to being accepted? Most people in the trans community who freak out about silly details are venting their frustration most of the time, and it's important to recognize how they feel, I think. While I'd encourage you to try and understand, I really do think you're point is valid. We will never be accepted if everyone else has to memorize a rule book just to talk to us. 1/27/2016 08:43:58 pm
Alex, first of all let me apologize if my tone came across as militant. I want to avoid that. Secondly I cannot fathom what it must be like to be afflicted with the sense that you do not feel right in the body you were born in, and the hell that must be. So I sympathize while I cannot empathize. It's just that since the last decade many in the LGBT community have ratcheted up the political rhetoric and have become more militant to the point where many people have been alienated from the cause of equality. Many of us who have supported the LGBT community in the past have been labeled homophobic or transphobic if we do not tow the political line. In fact one of my former employers was dragged into court by a LGBT activist group for political reason after years of support for that community. So please accept my apology, my rant was born out of frustration, but that must pale in comparison to the frustration you must feel every day!
dan
7/11/2015 10:34:32 pm
cisgender got put in the dictionary this year actually
Katie
9/5/2015 04:34:46 am
Let's maybe pause for a moment and recognize the irony in using caps and multiple exclamation marks (goodness!) to assert that PENISES ARE MALE THAT MEANS HE'S MALE END OF STORY, in going out of your way to use words that you assume will irritate someone, and in then accusing them of militancy for using words that you don't like. Now I understand that some people like you and me have it easy because enough of the various biological components of sex line up with our gender (and let's be clear, scientists have found it awfully hard to agree upon a definition for sex as simple as "your genitals look like a penis" http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2009/09/14/when-someone-is-raised-female-and-the-genes-say-xy), but can we tone down the militancy? 1/27/2016 08:52:05 pm
Katie, my intention was not to irritate people, but I have noticed that people use words without knowing their meaning, or through laziness, hear an authority figure use a word improperly and then feel they can do the same. What this does is make any common ground of understanding impossible, as different people have different associations of common words. So if the purpose of language is to help people to communicate, but everyone has a different definition of what a word means, there can never be any communication or understanding, can there?
Ray
10/21/2016 05:42:08 pm
This is really a reply to Chris' comment below, which, for me, lacks a reply button.
Ged Ein
6/2/2015 02:44:34 pm
Buffalo Bill is based on an amalgam of serial killers including Jerry Brudos, who dressed up in his victim's clothing, and Ed Gein, who actually made a female skin suit.
Sebastian
6/3/2015 12:20:57 am
Equality means an equal chance to be the bad guy (or girl) in the movies, too. Every single Hollywood villain can't be a neo-nazi or a land developer. Not real diverse.
Doug
8/11/2015 11:34:00 pm
OK, I normally don't like commenting on an article before finishing it, but Norman Bates is not transgender at all.
Jason
9/1/2015 01:31:13 am
First, fascinating article. I am not sure if I fully agree with it yet, I will let it digest, but you make some insightful observations.
DaveG
8/28/2015 07:53:19 am
This screed has "Victim" written all over it.
Ice Bergen
10/31/2015 04:10:17 pm
So? Maybe you never experienced what its like to be transgender and view Silence of the Lambs, so maybe it makes sense to be victimized.
Taliah
9/10/2015 06:23:47 am
Firstly, both the book and the film explicitly state that Gumb is NOT transsexual
Ice Bergen
10/31/2015 04:11:28 pm
What if we don't choose to take offense to it? What if we're not looking to find something to take offense to? What if watching this movie and being transgender automatically makes you react negatively?
C.M.Starling
3/13/2016 04:59:36 pm
Well said. In addition, in the film Clarice mentions "There's no correlation in literature between transsexualism and violence. Transsexuals are very passive--"
Kevin
1/4/2016 01:10:08 pm
The feminist agenda. Make men hate their own identities growing up, then convince them it is gender disphoria so they get sex reassignment surgery
Barby Days Young
3/12/2016 05:27:10 pm
Well written, easy to read. Now I actually understand a movie I've watched several to.we and never understood. I also understand your message of tolerance and love for one another. I have learned that genitals does not determine sex. And you are who you are in your head and not always your body. Thank you.
Greg
5/5/2016 03:20:22 pm
I agree Silence of the Lambs is seriously problematic. It's director, Jonathan Demme, has said as much. His statements about the film lead me to believe that the film was meant to depict someone who "thinks he's transsexual" as part of a broader pathology, not a real transgender person - an important distinction.
Swirlingout
6/15/2016 06:44:52 pm
The film was popular in part because of its plot's feasibility. Men are violent. Men who think they are women have a lot going on.
Alex
7/21/2016 08:50:42 pm
You guys do know that Buffalo Bill is based on truth right? There really was a man named Ed Gein, who really did believe that he wanted a second change after his mother died, and it was only then that he started digging up women's graves and making a suit out of them, as well as murdering 2 other women himself. So really, this movie maybe does take that idea a little too far in the dancing scene, but you can't hate too much because there is so much to Bill's character that has to do with his severe mental state that makes it much more than just "trans people are crazy." I do understand however that lots of people watching this might take the things that happen in this movie to heart and think wrongly about trans people. However, I would certainly have liked this article to point out the fact that the character in this movie is based on a true person, and therefore not just the sole creation of some author and Hollywood director.
Jana Peterson
10/21/2016 12:36:07 am
You clearly did not do your homework little Starling...
Ray
10/21/2016 04:11:20 pm
Ladies, Gents & others,
Liam B
2/14/2017 04:51:59 pm
The bad guy calls himself transsexual, must be transphobic. The villain is a woman, must be sexism. If the villain is gay, must be homophobic. If the villain is African-American, must be racist, etc. After the Super Bowl, there was a news article about how Islamophobic an episode of 24 was because the main villain of the episode was Muslim. This is based on the assumption that all non-White-Straight-Men are incapable of villainy, which is far more stereotypical than the movie itself. Please, inform me of all-time movie villains, and give me the numbers of how many are white men. Most. But you get one self-proclaimed transsexual serial killer in this movie and suddenly its transphobic. Makes no sense.
Ruby F.
6/20/2017 09:55:31 pm
I have always been a big fan of the film and one of my favorite things has been that I've considered it to be a feminist film. I am grateful to this article for helping me to see the transphobia in this movie. I still think that it is a fine piece of filmmaking but am troubled by what I think is unintended transphobia but transphobia nonetheless. I also still think that it goes further than most films to be blatantly feminist in many scenes, and I still love those scenes, but I realize now that it is not as enlightened as I thought. I don't think this means that I cannot appreciate the film for what it does accomplish, both artistically and culturally, but what considering this film in light of the insights in this article does do Is to offer a sensitive teaching moment: That even well-meaning, feminist-aspiring people can unintentionally transmit less than ideal portrayals of and messages about gender, and that all of us can learn and evolve by being open minded and really listening to those as thoughtful and insightful as the author of this article. This is the way that we, as a society, can do and be better, and the combination of well-meaning but perhaps sociologically less-than-perfect works of art and authors such as Savannah Staubes help us traverse such territory.
Ann
9/7/2017 02:54:23 pm
Teachable moments are teachable moments. I can clearly see how the transmisogyny label rears up. Perhaps if the psychotic killer had been a straight (cis) man, which makes more sense to me than a transvestite or transgender man/woman, since misogyny has such a long, old history, Then the idea of wearing a woman's skin to RIDICULE femininity and womanhood is far more grounded than the confused reachings of Buffalo Bill (was he abused, was he trans... we know he was psychotic), and the dance in front of the mirror could be taken as serious or ridicule, as I've known cis guys who've done same. But as the stylings of American Psycho show, when people are seriously messed up, they do messed up things on a gargantuan scale. It is a problematic take in retrospect. Thanks for peeling off layers of an onion.
Robert
2/13/2018 11:57:36 am
Maybe I've misunderstood but wasn't a big part of Buffalo Bill's character that he WASN'T transgender?
Dave
3/2/2018 07:33:10 pm
This movie is awesome because it portrays the fundamental TRUTH about Transgender people - they are psychologically ill.
Rosemary
5/14/2018 05:25:31 pm
Why are you trying to treat us trans people as if we aren't human?
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In Psycho, Norman Bates was definitely not transgender. The psychiatrist in the film is even asked if Norman is a “transvestite,” and the doctor replies that he is not. He then proceeds to point out the differences between someone dressing up in women’s clothes to achieve a personal satisfaction, and Norman’s case. He was literally just dressing up like his mother because his mental illness led him to believe that he was her. That’s all. Even when I was younger, the idea of him being trans never crossed my mind, and I thought it was ridiculous that the doctor even brought it up.
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9/22/2018 01:15:47 pm
The real crime here is how poorly written this article is. None of the paragraphs have any real transition to different topics and the topics keep jumping all over the place. This article is heavily dependent on opinions. There is no factual evidence from creditable sources and again, opinionated. The article contains the worst movie summary I have laid eyes on. No one, nor I, should give any kind of credibility or seriousness to this deliberate assassination of the English language.
france
1/18/2019 01:38:01 pm
Hello everyone my mouth is full of testimony I was
stella sean
1/30/2019 02:21:21 am
My husband came to me and apologized for the wrongs he did and promise never to do it again. Ever since then, everything has returned back to normal. Thank you Dr bante for saving my broken Marriage. Dr bante is the best online spell caster that is powerful and genuine. Email him now today. Email him: bantespelltemple@ gmail. com Call or text him: (+2347059073543 )visit blog:http://bantespelltemple.blogspot.com
james mccall
2/3/2019 07:13:02 pm
HOW DR OKOUGBE HELPED ME ENLARGE MY PENIS SIZE FROM 3.5 INCHES TO 11 INCHES LONG AND 8.0 GIRTH
james ava
2/7/2019 06:14:23 pm
I can’t believe this is really true I never believe there is cure to this hsv 2 because all the hospital have told me there is no cure to it, few months ago I saw this man email DR.AZIEGBE on internet from a testimony share by someone who he help with his herbal cure I contact his email and ask for his help also, that is how he inform me about the cure process and this man sent me a herbal medicine which I took according to the way he instructed for 2 week I can’t believe when I go for test my result come out negative i am so happy to share this to the world there is real cure to herpes you can also contact DR.AZIEGBE through his email now DRAZIEGBE1SPELLHOME@GMAIL. COM and also WhatsApp him +2349035465208. or my assistant whatsApp me +1 (601) 452-8622 or email: JAMESAVA0001@GMAIL. COM...
Alex Williams
2/8/2019 08:18:02 pm
HOW DR OKOUGBE HELPED ME ENLARGE MY PENIS SIZE FROM 3.5 INCHES TO 11 INCHES LONG AND 8.0 GIRTH
Happy
2/9/2019 05:01:44 am
Herbal treatment is 100% guarantee for HSV cure,
david ken
2/12/2019 07:50:33 pm
Hello viewers around the Globe, I was despondent because i had a very small penis, about 2.5 inches soft and 4 inches hard not nice enough to satisfy a woman, i have been in so many relationship, but cut off because of my situation, i have used so many product which doctors for me, but none could offer me the help i searched for. i saw some few comments on the INTERNET about this specialist called Dr,OLU and decided to contact him on his email: Drolusolutinthome@gmail.com) so I decided to give his herbal product a try. i emailed him and he got back to me, he gave me some comforting words with his herbal pills for Penis Enlargement, Within 3 week of it, i began to feel the enlargement was surprised when she said that she is satisfied with my sex and i have got a large penis. Am so happy, thanks to Dr OLU I also learn that Dr OLU also help with Breast Enlargement Hips and Bums Enlargement etc.. If you are in any situation with a little Penis, weak ejaculation, small breast_hips_bums do get to Dr OLU now for help on his email (Drolusolutionhome@gmail.com) or add him on whatsapp line +2348140654426
alfreed siang
2/12/2019 10:29:47 pm
Hello everyone,my name is ALFREED SIANG i am here to say a big thank you to my doctor DR OLU who helped me enlarge my penis.i have never had a happy relationship in my life because of my inability to perform well due to my small penis, due to frustration,i went online in search of solution to ending my predicament and than i came across testimony on how DR OLU has helped them, so i contacted him and he promised to help me with penis enlargement,i doubted at first but i gave him a trial and he sent me the product which i used according to his prescription and in less than a week,i saw changes in my penis and it grow to the size i wanted and since then,i am now a happy man and no lady complains again about my penis.if you also need the services of my doctor,you can also contact him on his email..drolusolutionhome@gmail.com or his whataspp is +2348140654426
Relanes Ihab
2/16/2019 01:39:03 am
Hello viewers around the Globe, I was despondent because i had a very small penis, about 2.5 inches soft and 4 inches hard not nice enough to satisfy a woman, i have been in so many relationship, but cut off because of my situation, i have used so many product which doctors prescribe for me, but none could offer me the help i searched for. i saw some few comments on the internet about this specialist called Dr, OLHIA and i decided to contact him on his {oliha.miraclemedicine@gmail.com} so I decided to give his herbal product a try. i emailed him and he got back to me, he gave me some comforting words with his herbal pills for Penis Enlargement, Within 3 week of it, i began to feel the enlargement of my penis, " and now it just 4 weeks of using his products my penis is about 9 inches longer, and i had to settle out with my Ex girlfriend Ella, i was surprised when she said that she is satisfied with my sex and i have got a large penis. Am so happy, thanks to Dr OLIHA I also learn that Dr OLIHA also help with Breast Enlargement Hips and Bums Enlargement etc.. If you are in any situation with a little Penis, weak ejaculation, small breast_hips_bums do get to Dr OLIHA now for help on his email {oliha.miraclemedicine@gmail.com} or whats app him number: +2349038382931
steve
2/17/2019 06:09:30 pm
There are still real herbal doctors out there, despite the fact that there are lot of scammers out there that claim to be doctors, I got my penis enlarged with the help of Dr. Okpoko, and he also provided remedy for me which cured me from premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction, I haven't been able to satisfy my wife since I got married, until I decided to check online on the internet if I could get help to my problem, so luckily I met his email address on one of the site I checked, I saw where his email was posted with a testimonial of how he help cured a guy from erectile dysfunction, so I decided to contact him and explain to him my own present predicament, and he promised to help me out, I thought he was trying to take advantage of me and just get my money because I have lost a lot of money in the past trying to get over this problem, but to my greatest surprise, he actually provided a solution for me as we agreed, after he received money from me to get the items he used in preparing the remedy he sent to me,
noah james
2/22/2019 06:22:11 am
Hello everyone, am very happy to share this little awesome testimony about Dr olu a great herbal doctor who help me enlarge my penis size.3.2 cm to 8.3 cm longer with his herbal cream mixture, my girlfriend is now so amazed with the autonomous size of my penis , if you you are also in need of help on how to enlarge your penis to become bigger and stronger I adverse you to contact Dr on his email (drolusolutionhome@gmail.com) ) you or contact on whatsapp number +2348140654426 because he is one of the best herbal doctor that i can only show you up to, if your penis is 4.2 cm and want to get it reach 9.2 cm within three weeks i Dr olu is also specialized on obey m breast and boobs enlargement i advise you to contact him for help
caluss
2/23/2019 02:48:58 am
I am very happy for posting on this blog on how a great spell caster helped me to bring back the love of my life. I know there are lots of women like me out there who has done so much to have back their Husband, I am here to tell you the answer is right here. I sincerely believe if there are up to five spell casters like Dr. isong this world would be a better place, I have seen people complaining on how fake spell castes promised to help them but couldn't. with Dr isong I tell you your problem is already solved because i experienced alot when my Husband and I had been apart for 4years and I couldn't bear living without him, I have tried everything to have him back but nothing was working until I saw numerous testimonies about a spell caster call Dr isong on how great his work is. I contacted him immediately and follow the step that he ask and in the next 48 hours my husband called me and was eager for my forgiveness and that he wished nothing more than to have me in his arms forever. I filled so much joy and happiness that I found Dr isong. I hope you all here will find this testimony of mine and get your husband back in just 48 hours isong contact is drisongspellhome@gmail.com you can also call or whatsapp him on +2347063612587.
williams pater
2/26/2019 08:08:34 pm
Hello everyone i Am williams pater and i am from USA i am here to give my testimony about an herbal doctor called Dr,olu I was heartbroken because i had very small penis,not nice to satisfy a woman, i have been in so many relationship, but cut off because of my situation, i have used so many product which doctors prescribe for me, but could not offer me the help i searched for. i saw some few comments on the internet about this specialist called Dr,OLU and decided to email him on his email i saw on the internet,(drolusolutionhome@gmail.com ) so I decided to give his herbal product a try. i emailed him and he got back to me, he gave me some comforting words with his herbal product for Penis Enlargement, Within three weeks of me use it, i began to feel the enlargement, " and now it just 4 weeks of using his products my penis is about 8 inches longer, and i had to settle thing out with my ex girlfriend , i was surprised when she said that she is satisfied with my performance in bed and i now have a large penis.thanks to DR OLU for is herbal product. you can also reach him with emsil drolusolutionhome@gmail.com though is..number WHATASPP him today on this number [ +2348140654426 ]
denail
3/2/2019 11:28:04 am
I want to share a testimony of how Dr.Omohan herbal mixture cream saves me from shame and disgrace, my penis was a big problem to me as the size was really so embarrassing,and i was also having weak erection problem. I can't make love to my wife and my penis was just too small a full grown man like me having 4 inches penis and to worsen it i don't last in sex i cant even last two minutes it was really a thing of shame to me. My wife was really tired of me because my sex life was very poor,she never enjoyed sex,i was always thinking and searching for solutions everywhere until when i saw a testimony of how Dr.omohan herbal mixture cream have been helping people regarding their sex life, so i decided to give him a try and to my greatest surprise in less than one week of taking the herbs my penis grow to 8 inches i couldn't believe my eyes and as i speak now my penis is now 8 inches and i do not have week erection again. I can make love to my wife longer in bed. And my marriage is now stable,my wife now enjoy me very well in bed. can contact him dromohanherbalmedicine@gmail.com or call or what-apps him through +2348164816038. . .he also specialize on the following things
david ken
3/8/2019 06:32:43 pm
Hello viewers around the Globe, I was despondent because i had a very small penis, about 2.5 inches soft and 4 inches hard not nice enough to satisfy a woman, i have been in so many relationship, but cut off because of my situation, i have used so many product which doctors for me, but none could offer me the help i searched for. i saw some few comments on the INTERNET about this specialist called Dr,OLU and decided to contact him on his email: Drolusolutinthome@gmail.com) so I decided to give his herbal product a try. i emailed him and he got back to me, he gave me some comforting words with his herbal pills for Penis Enlargement, Within 3 week of it, i began to feel the enlargement was surprised when she said that she is satisfied with my sex and i have got a large penis. Am so happy, thanks to Dr OLU I also learn that Dr OLU also help with Breast Enlargement Hips and Bums Enlargement etc.. If you are in any situation with a little Penis, weak ejaculation, small breast_hips_bums do get to Dr OLU now for help on his email (Drolusolutionhome@gmail.com) or add him on whatsapp line +2348140654426
Sonna Anderson
3/18/2019 12:17:57 pm
Its a pleasure for me to write this testimony about how i got my Genital Herpes cured a month ago. i have been reading so many comments of some people who were cured from various diseases by Dr .Agbonhale, but i never believed them. I was hurt and depressed so I was too curious and wanted to try Dr. Agbonhale , then i contacted him through his email when i contact him, he assured me 100% that he will heal me, i pleaded with him to help me out. My treatment was a great success, he healed me just as he promised. he sent me his medication and ask me to go for check up after one weeks of taking the medication. i agreed with him i took this medication and went for check up a , to my greatest surprise my result was negative after the treatment, i am really happy that i am cured and healthy again. I have waited for 3weeks to be very sure i was completely healed before writing this testimony. I did another blood test one week ago and it was still Herpes negative. so i guess its time i recommend anyone going through Herpes HSV-1 or HSV-2, HIV, HPV, Hepatitis B, Diabetes, Cancer reach him through Email dragbonhaleherbalhome@gmail.com OR add on whatsapp +2349073130326.
sherni maram
3/18/2019 11:17:12 pm
What else can I say about him, today am very grateful to him as I am finally cured of herpes disease that I have been eating me up for over a year and 6 months.After searching for different means to get my self cure but nothing seems to work out,Behold today i can boldly stand and testify to the world at large that with the help of an herbal medicine,I have found myself back to my feet and healthy again in just after few days that i got in contact with a GOD sent man,through help on a blog which talk about herpes cure,how she was cured through the herbal medicine too which was sent to her from doctor Dr Adeola.So i decided to give this great man a try by contacting him via his email and mobile no,explained to him what my problems his and he told me all would be fine and well by the time he his done with is own work that i just have to believe in him which i did ,low and behold,today i am very happy as it was just all like a magic that is why i have come here to testify to the world at large and also to share my experience because I know there are many people out there who are also in searching for cure to one disease or the other,you can as well get Dr Adeola the great now for herbal medicine help through his contact address on dradeolaherbalhome@gmail.com also on mobile wha'sapp no +2349027752454 as i fully believe he is able and capable also getting rid of disease like
DOROTHY LISA
3/19/2019 06:02:49 am
My name is DOROTHY LISA, I want to share a great testimony on this website on how great a man called Prophet Abulele helped me in getting pregnant, me and my husband have been trying to have a baby for over 12 years, but they were no luck so we decided to contact the family doctor and after all the test have been done, he said to us that my Fallopian tube is not functioning. then one day I was in the office when a friend of mine who had the same problem with me, got her baby after she contacted Prophet Abulele. she directed me to him and when I contacted him through his email: prophetabulelehealingtemple@gmail.com and he prayed for me and sen+t me an herbal medicine, which I took for few days and in 3 weeks’ time, as he told me, i was feeling somehow and I went to meet the family doctor who told me that I am pregnant. if you know that you have a similar problem like this, or any fertility issue and you want to be pregnant you can contact Prophet Abulele: prophetabulelehealingtemple@gmail.com OR WhatsApp him on +2349022406159 Leave a Reply. |
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