SYMBOLIC DEVIATIONST: TRANSVESTISM
Posted on March 12, 2009, under Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction.
One should never confuse a transvestite with a transsexual. While many transsexuals do wear the clothing of the opposite sex, this is because they identify completely with the opposite sex and have renounced their own.
Nor’can one generalize by saying all transvestites are effeminate homosexuals. Most transvestites lead a perfectly normal heterosexual sex life apart from this one kink.
It is an odd fact that the concept of transvestism is only applied to men. Nobody looks askance at a woman who dresses as a man – indeed it is current practice. Nonetheless, if one looks more closely one will find that there are women, some lesbians particularly, whose taste for male dress is consciously or unconsciously motivated by transvestite tendencies.
Transvestites dress up in women’s clothing only from time to time. They may even keep their male outer clothing but wear, underneath, the item (or items) of women’s underwear that have a fetishist value for them.
A transvestite is perfectly aware that his habit is a deviant one. A single man may make no effort to rid himself of the habit; he is easily aroused on seeing himself in the mirror in his women’s clothes, and he can get his orgasm by masturbating.
If he is married he will often hide this tendency for fear of what his wife will think and say. At most, just now and then and in jest, he will put on the item that is his fetish. Provided his wife has the minimum of understanding, this will cause no problems.
A transvestite is not necessarily lacking in virility. His sex drive is not affected; he will simply get an erection quicker that way. Even so, many transvestites live in fear of become impotent or turning gay. They need have no fear, however: only if their feelings of fear and shame become obsessive will their “deviation” affect their virility.
To avoid that happening, they should begin by breaking out of their isolation and looking for men and women who are broad-minded enough to be willing to tackle these problems of minor deviancy.
A few sessions with a psychotherapist will often be enough either to cure or at least to minimize the transvestite tendency and free it from guilt.
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