Transsexual Sexuality

Adriana Sommer da Costa
Psychologist and Sexologist

Under popular scrutiny someone wearing opposite sex's clothes easily sticks out as cross-dresser.

In the sexuality field the term cross-dresser suggests erotic/sexual pleasure derived from draping with opposite sex's clothes. So, both men and women fall under its patterns.

For the sake of information the term cross-dresser was first employed by the sex-therapist Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910.

A cross-dresser goes out and about wearing women's clothes or men's clothes. Its hard to tell whether it's women's clothes or gay's clothes. Some would wear only underwear of the opposite sex underneath their plain clothes. Thus, away from public eye the cross-dresser might derive sexual pleasure wearing intimate lingerie and a wide range of accessories to go with.

Nonetheless, a cross-dresser shouldn't be compared to a transsexual. This is so because the sexual orientation of an individual has no linkage with the term cross-dresser. Such may occur with total disregard of sexual orientation.

Lets reinforce here, there are those who in work hectic have to dress up as the opposite sex without meaning a thing on homosexuality flare. In this case, the term is transformist, whose work commitment doesn't imply in sexual heightening or sex drive. There might be possible to some individuals to get a kick out of cross-dressing whether as a lesbian or as a gay man. It's perfectly normal to get all pepped up from wearing the opposite sex attires and accessories mostly for men. Having said that, women's fashion offer enticingly well-thought range of options contrary to men's. Its name is travestic fetishism, taking so many to show-biz stardom under the guise of drag-queen. The cross-dresser phenomena shifts from person to person, hinging on physical attributes, the degree of mannerisms and even clothing optional capability. Once outlandish looks are put on hold everything returns to normal.

The cross-dresser, whether man or woman, usually concern about castration; A Freud-like phase described on his sexuality theory. Such a psychoanalytical interpretation may be perceived as follows; The homosexual replaces his love for his mother by identifying with her, the fetishist refuses to admit that a woman is penniless. The male cross-dresser embraces simultaneously a two-fold behavior.

He envisages a woman with penis so that can overcome castration distress and therefore identify himself with a phallic woman. A cross-dresser shows no interest in trading or acquiring sexual characteristics of the opposite sex. Even so, emotionally overburden from discomfort with innate genitals. They search anxiously through sex fantasies what it would be like as the opposite sex.

As a rule of the thumb, a cross-dresser is unlikely to let his/her hair out showing preferences towards men or women. Sexual orientation fails to let them loose.

A little bit on transsexual: the transgender features innate secondary sexual characteristics but feels and perceives oneself as the opposite sex. As in a convict lesbian straight from Lesbos-diesel dyke, inside a puny women's body who challenges men on spatial reasoning.

The transsexual bears great psychic suffering, since feeling trapped inside a biological glitch as far as determination of sexual characteristics goes. They rely on gender-reassignment surgery in an attempt to make for the loss. Its diagnose utters psychological and psychiatric procedures in order to unveil concealed reasons.

A cross-dresser accepts innate genitals. Regardless of hormonal treatment undergone or beauty make-believes with all its silicone driven fads the real cross-dresser won't deny genitals and reach orgasm to boot. In addition, the transsexual cant' bear the sight of his/hers genitals and won't put up with it any longer whichever sexual orientation.