Seeking Personal Histories of Sexual Arousal Associated with Sex Reassignment

I am still seeking narratives concerning sexual feelings and fantasies associated with or centered on the sex reassignment experience. If you identify as transsexual and are willing to share your experiences concerning this topic, please read on. I would particularly like to hear from persons who have either been approved for SRS or are postoperative.

Some transsexual women report that the process of becoming feminized – either in reality or in fantasy – has been, or still is, sexually arousing. This phenomenon – sexual excitement at the thought or image of oneself as a woman – is called autogynephilia. Have you experienced feelings like this?

Transsexual women have sometimes described sexual arousal in connection with doing or fantasizing the following:

- wearing women's clothing;
- having or acquiring a woman's body, or aspects such as breasts or a vagina;
- feminizing one's body by applying cosmetics, shaving one's legs, etc.;
- imagining being pregnant, breast-feeding or menstruating;
- engaging in typically feminine activities;
- being among women where men are not present.

Have thoughts or experiences like these been sexually arousing for you in the past? Have they continued to be arousing after transition, or postoperatively? Did sexual desire play any part in your decision to transition? Was the desire to live out fantasies like these part of your reason for transitioning? Did you ever think that you couldn't "really" be transsexual because you had such fantasies? Have you told others (friends, lovers, therapists) about your feelings? What was the outcome? How have your feelings affected your sex life – either during solo sex or with partners? How have your feelings affected your relationships with other people?

If you are willing to share your experience – anonymously – here's how: Simply write (or paste) your narrative into the space below and click the submit button. The form will accommodate up to about 2000 words. This method is completely anonymous – your name and email address WILL NOT be transmitted to me unless you manually enter them somewhere in the space below. Whatever you submit is sent to me automatically by my Internet Service Provider – and its name, not yours, appears in the "From" line of the message I receive.

I may include excerpts from the narratives I receive in published articles or presentations. While you are welcome to include your name or other identifying information if you wish, I will remove or change any such information before publication. Feel free to be as sexually explicit as you wish. If you have either been approved for SRS or are postoperative, please include this information in your statement.

Please note that I am not requesting statements from persons who have never had such feelings, or who object to the idea that other people might have them. The world has plenty of such statements already.

Thanks for your participation!

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