Clinical Research You Probably Should Avoid Reading

Stay stupid, ladies.

YourManManny
6 min readDec 20, 2020

If I were a straight male with a secret fetish for women’s periods, I’d keep that to myself. If I were somebody struggling with gender identity disorder, the number of straight men claiming my struggles as their own in order to mask their own sexual fetishism of womanhood would horrify me.

I would stand with women against the erasure of women, against the hatred and bullying directed at women for standing up against men wielding their power to gain access to sex-based spaces for women. I would denounce those who hijack feminism and demand that women do more to accommodate men who wish to be women because they find stereotypical gender perceptions of women sexually gratifying.

I would apply the clinical research and use it to understand my disorder, and I would condemn anybody who tried to gaslight a young generation of women into believing that transgender women are lesbians with penises. I would laugh in their faces. I’d tell them to get the hell out.

Straight men who aroused by the performance of womanhood are enjoying the mainstream attention of the transgender movement — even more so than those with gender dysphoria. Their once private masturbatory obsessions hold a particular resemblance to gender identity disorder; even better, its a disorder that affords compassion to the sufferers. They don’t suffer from the disorder, but their paraphilia is perfectly masked when claiming to suffer from the same disorder also.

A large part of their sexual desires is the exhibition of it — photographing themselves in sexualised poses and sharing them or uploading them is enough to feel sexually gratifying. If unchecked, this paraphilia becomes overwhelming enough that they can only ‘complete’ their orgasm by partaking in the focus of their fetishism of female gender roles.

Like one who suffers from gender dysphoria, this sexual paraphilia causes destruction to the lives of the sufferers. But they are still two different things. One is an uncontrolled sexual paraphilia. The other is the discomfort of experiencing their life in a male body. They look the same but only one is sexually motivated to use the public compassion for gender identity disorder to experience gratification.

Here are the signs:

  1. They wish to be a woman but won’t give up their penis

Why? If a woman woke up to discover she had a penis, she would immediately remove it before dreaming of ‘hangs with the girls’. They wouldn’t put on makeup and act like everything was fine.

A homosexual male who suffers from gender identity disorder would also feel discomfort with their male organs. Some go as far as having them surgically removed when their symptoms become overwhelming to their quality of life.

But, straight men with a fetish for women’s clothes don't want to stop masturbating with their penises. That would defeat the purpose of their pursuit of this passion.

How to get around this?

“Some women have penises”.

Clinical Manifestations of Autogynephilia Blanchard observed that gender dysphoric men could be aroused by the idea of embodying or enacting almost any element of female anatomy, physiology or behavior…these men were sometimes sexually aroused by the idea or reality of (a) having a female body or body features such as a vulva or breasts (anatomic autogynephilia), (b) being pregnant, menstruating or breast- feeding (physiologic autogynephilia)…engaging in behaviors considered to be female-typical, such as sewing, going to a beauty salon or having a female- typical occupation (e.g. flight attendant, erotic dancer or prostitute; behavioral autogynephilia), or (d) wearing women’s clothing or accessories (transvestic autogynephilia). Not surprisingly, anatomic autogynephilia — arousal to the idea of having a female body, and especially female genitals — was found to be especially characteristic of the gender dysphoric men who most avidly sought sex reassignment surgery, i.e. MtF transsexuals.

Behavioral autogynephilia has a wide range of manifestations…the strong desire of some autogynephilic persons ‘to have their physical attractiveness as women validated by others’.

The phenomenon that leads some nonhomosexual MtF transsexuals to describe themselves as bisexual…Although they are fundamentally gynephilic, they also experience a secondary sexual interest in men, derived from autogynephilic interpersonal fantasy.

In some autogynephilic men, sexual interest in female partners predominates and autogynephilia is a minor sexual interest. In others, autogynephilia appears to be an exclusive or almost exclusive sexual interest, effectively crowding out any interest in female partners. Most autogynephilic men fall somewhere in between: they are genuinely attracted to and aroused by female partners, but are also aroused by the idea of being women.

A quotation from the autobiography of Nancy Hunt, an MtF transsexual, describes this phenomenon: “I was feverishly interested in [girls]. I studied their hair, their clothes, their figures. In my nighttime fantasies, as I masturbated or floated towards sleep, I combined the two compulsions, dreaming of sex but with myself as the girl. The fact that autogynephilia and genuine attraction to women usually coexist led Lawrence to observe that autogynephilic MtF transsexuals are ‘men who love women and who want to become what they love’.

The competition between autogynephilia and alloerotic gynephilia is sometimes a dynamic process, which seems to be mediated in part by the erotic appeal of novelty. Clients with autogynephilia sometimes report that their autogynephilic desires and behaviors weaken or become less frequent when they become romantically involved with new female partners. The desire for sex reassignment has been known to remit completely in nonhomosexual gender dysphoric men, at least for a time, when they become romantically involved with women. When the novelty of these new relationships fades, however, autogynephilic desires usually reassert themselves. When autogynephilia and alloerotic gynephilia coexist in the context of an ongoing sexual relationship, an increase in the relative intensity of autogynephilia can be associated with erectile problems or desire disorders during partnered sexual activity.

Surveys conducted among members of social organizations for heterosexual cross- dressing men reveal that anatomic and behavioral autogynephilia are not uncommon among these men. About one third of men who had sought treatment for their transvestism fantasized primarily about being female while masturbating during cross- dressing; this was much less common in transvestic men who had not sought treatment, suggesting that anatomic autogynephilia was associated with greater subjective distress. Moreover, about one third of men who sought treatment for transvestism reported that they had engaged in sexual behavior with men while cross- dressed, as had about one fifth of men who had not sought treatment; this behavior can be understood as a manifestation of behavioral autogynephilia. Some transvestites also experience gender dysphoria.

This is consistent with a report by Freund that transvestites and nonhomosexual MtF transsexuals exist on a continuum of progressively increasing gender dysphoria. Autogynephilia as a Sexual Orientation Autogynephilia is a paraphilic phenomenon in that it reflects an unusual or disordered erotic interest, but it also has dimensions that are not explicitly erotic. In fact, autogynephilia appears to define or give rise to a sexual orientation.

Autogynephilic MtF transsexuals are erotically aroused by imagining themselves as female, but they also idealize the thought of being female, experience feelings of comfort and security from their autogynephilic fantasies and behaviors, and usually want to bond permanently with their idealized feminine self- images by completely embodying and enacting them (i.e. by undergoing hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery). Clinicians who deal with sexual concerns will be aware that men can continue to feel love for and comfort and security from romantic partners for whom they no longer feel much erotic desire [30]. In other words, the elements of sexual orientation that involve attraction and attachment can persist long after the erotic element has declined or disappeared.

It also accounts for similar reports by transvestites, who often state that they continue to enjoy dressing as women, even after cross- dressing has ceased to be erotically exciting, because they derive feelings of comfort and relaxation from doing so.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299074319_Autogynephilia_An_Underappreciated_Paraphilia

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