Sex Question Friday: Why Are So Many Straight Men Into Transsexual Porn? - Sex and Psychology
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Every 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?
  • NaoPb@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    33·
    17 hours ago

    I’ve learned that transgender is an umbrella term which could range from men who like to wear a dress, to drag queens, to people transitioning out of the gender assumed at their birth. Is this correct? And what would be the term for the latter group?

    • velma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      16 hours ago

      Crossdressing is not the same as being transgender. There can be overlap, but there’s plenty of men who like to crossdress.

    • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
      4·
      16 hours ago

      Not as far as I know. I’m a bit of a layman on the topic, trying to learn as well. But, AFAIK, Transgender is someone that has or is in the process of transitioning to a different gender than the one assigned at birth. It doesn’t require specific actions (dress change, hormones, surgery, anything), only that the person decides they’ll assume their true gender.

      So, in the order you presented: crossdresser, drag queen, transgender.

      • velma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        16 hours ago

        Crossdressing is not the same as being transgender.

        There’s plenty of drag queens who are cis men and not trans women.

        The term transgender is used to describe a person whose gender identity is different from the one that they were born into or what is noted on their birth certificate. Transgender people do not believe that the sex they were assigned at birth and their gender identifies are the same.

        For the most part, cross-dressers are usually heterosexual people who wear clothing traditional of the opposite sex.

        The most common example of a crossdresser is a man who wears traditionally feminine clothing such as dresses or skirts. Depending on the person and situation, a cross-dresser may or not identify or associate themselves with the LGBTQ community.

          • velma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            16 hours ago

            There isn’t an order to it. It’s not some progressive timeline of you start crossdressing, then you start doing drag, then you transistion.

            I’m sure some people have followed that path, but crossdressing and drag should not be seen as strictly done by transgender people.

            • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
              3·
              16 hours ago

              Not a time order, the order in which the OC presented their 3 examples. What to name:

              1. A man that wears dresses: crossdresser
              2. A drag queen: drag queen
              3. Someone who is transitioning: transgender

              I hope what I meant is clear now.