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That sounds like Blanchard's autogynephilia, which is widely disputed and rejected by most trans people and other sexologists alike.
by _cenw 1y ago
That sounds like Blanchard's autogynephilia, which is widely disputed and rejected by most trans people and other sexologists alike.
- strken 1y agoIt sounds nothing like autogynephilia to me, although it still sounds like bullshit.
- _cenw 1y agoThe reverse for trans men isn't, but "trans women transition to male gaze themselves" gets pretty close.
- strken 1y agoWanting to be beautiful to others isn't the same as being sexually attracted to yourself, or to the idea of yourself plus some modifications, at all. I trim my beard in the morning because I want to look good to other people, as do most men. Would you agree that the male population doesn't do this because they all have have a paraphilia for a specific style of facial hair? And that women don't shave their legs because of a similar paraphilia?
- monkeycantype 1y agoI wonder instead if what is being described here comes from a conflation of drag and maybe something from the BDSM world with trans? I think it does describe the experience of people who live a life in which they feel if not undesirable, then at least ordinary, who have an costumed highly sexualised alter-ego which they inhabit a kind of performance which put makes them a focus of attention, sometimes of desire, and sometimes in a position of power (not these are not exclusive) that is very different from their ordinary lives.