Men Trapped in Men's Bodies by Anne A. Lawrence

We create our feminine personas by trying to express and embody the feminine virtues, whatever we think theseĪre. We create in the process of sex reassignment function as integral elements of theĮxtended works of performance art that are our lives.

We can also strive to become womanly in our personalities. “We autogynephilic transsexuals strive to become womanly in our bodies, but Individual self-expression is discouraged.” In individualistic Western cultures than to their counterparts in cultures in which Sex reassignment probably feels far more permissible to autogynephilic men living Transsexualism is equivalent to autogynephilic transsexualism-a justi fi ableĪssumption, in my opinion-these results suggest the hypothesis that the permissible expression of autogynephilia, rather than the prevalence or severity of autogynephilia, primarily accounts for these cross-cultural differences.

Members pursuing personal happiness and self-expression, regardless of the opinions of others-accounted for most of the differences in the relative prevalence of In a measure of societal individualism -the degree to which a culture condones its The USA, Canada, and the UK are nonhomosexual. Transsexuals in Asian cultures are homosexual, whereas most MtF transsexuals in In this article, I attempted to explain the observation that nearly all MtF That had implications for understanding the phenomenon of autogynephilic transsexualism. Homosexual MtF transsexualism across national cultures (Lawrence, 2010c ) “In 2010, I published a study of the relative prevalence of nonhomosexual and Was not genuinely androphilic, but this realization occurred only gradually.” Eventually, this client recognized that he Highly intelligent, well-informed people.

How profoundly confusing this type of behavioral autogynephilia can be, even to Uncertainty about an issue that seemed so straightforward to me was a reminder of How could he not wonder whether his real sexual attraction was toward men? His Rewarding sexual experiences of this man’s life had involved sex with male partners. To this client, even though he was probably more intelligent than 99.9% of the population and had read more about autogynephilia than most psychologists and psychiatrists who specialize in the treatment of gender dysphoria. But what was evident to me was not at all evident The most common type of behavioral autogynephilia, autogynephilic interpersonalįantasy involving a male partner. “It seemed evident to me that this client was not genuinely androphilic: He wasĬlearly an autogynephilic man whose most intense source of erotic arousal involved

Men Trapped in Men's Bodies by Anne A. Lawrence