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Sex Question Friday: Why Are So Many Straight Men Into Transsexual Porn? - Sex and Psychology
www.sexandpsychology.comEvery Friday on the blog, I answer people’s questions about sex, love, and relationships. This week’s question comes from a reader of the blog who was curious about why so many heterosexual men are pleasuring themselves to pornography featuring transgender and transsexual performers.I run a porn blog and I keep getting messages from men wanting to see tranny / shemale porn. I'm assuming these men are all straight-identifying, but maybe that's just my gay-identifying bias. I'm wondering what, if any studies or knowledge is out there about men who are attracted to and watch this kind of material or even look for them in real life? It does absolutely nothing for me, but this particular fetish is unavoidable if you frequent any kind of porn social network and it seems a lot of people are into this. What are your thoughts? Why might this be a turn-on for some, and what does it imply, if anything, about their sexuality?



On one hand, I’m glad that someone else’s thoughtlessness has triggered- if nothing else - such high -handed intellectualism from us…
But I can also see how, and I’m trying to be objective here, how this might not be the best response. You know, given the total context and having thought about this for an hour or so.
For example, it took me almost 10 minutes to figure out that this article was from 2012, and not, like, yesterday. Maybe it’s because I’m older and a bit more reactionary…