A paraphilic disorder, also known as having atypical sexual desires, is transvestic disorder. The essential feature of transvestic fetishism is recurrent intense sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies involving dressing in clothing associated with the opposite sex. Another term for transvestic fetishism is cross-dressing. A diagnosis of transvestic fetishism is made only if an individual has acted on these urges or is evidently distressed by them. In other systems of psychiatric classification, transvestic fetishism can also be considered a sexual deviation. Its prevalence is almost exclusively among males, and is usually never diagnosed to females. This disorder is considered extremely rare, reporting less than 3% of males saying they have sexual arousal through cross-dressing. …show more content…
There are many different reasons a person may have transvestic fetishism, but usually the cause for this disorders begins in early childhood. For example, a young boy may dress up in women’s clothing, and may continue doing it because it’s enjoyable, but the reasons for this enjoyment remain unconscious. If the habit continues into adulthood, it most often leads to transvestic fetishism. Since every individual is different there are many different reasons why a person may or may not choose to cross-dress. And since cross-dressing causes no harm to the individual or anyone else, it is becoming more socially acceptable in today’s
...s gone through. At times I cried knowing that maybe there is more to this transgender group of people. There are over 700,000 people going through transgender. One doctor said that sexual desire is who you go to bed with and gender is who you go to bed as. Transgender doesn’t mean that they are wanting to be with the opposite sex. There are some that go either way.
The knowledge of the dress code makes transgender people to wear boy or girl clothes. Parents in some cases may allow a certain behavior from their kids as a prize for achievement of high grades. The use of the knowledge may come with many rewards. In the article Why transgender teen Jazz Jennings is everywhere
In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, women are oversexualized, and are given no role other than to be the item of a man’s desire. The promiscuity of the only two women in the play, Gertrude and Ophelia, detracts from their power and integrity, and allows Hamlet a certain amount of control over them. Gertrude’s sexual lifestyle is often mentioned by her son, Hamlet, and Hamlet uses his knowledge of Gertrude’s sexuality as a means to criticize her. Ophelia’s sexuality initially appears to be controlled by Laertes and Polonius, and Hamlet takes advantage of the naive image that she is required to keep. However, in her later madness, Ophelia taints this image by revealing that her innocence is feigned. By exposing the sexual natures of both Gertrude and Ophelia, Hamlet strips these women of any influence they may have had, and damages their once-honourable names.
Cannibalism as a Sexual Disorder Cannibalism occurs prevalently in both Tarzan and Heart of Darkness, and is a controversial topic with which the public is largely unfamiliar. Although cannibalism is generally thought of in a primitive animal sense, experts have revealed that cannibalism can be identified as a sexual disorder (O’Connor). A cannibal is scientifically classified as an anthropophagus (“Anthropophagus”), which falls under the category of Anthropophagy. Anthropophagy by definition is the sexual gratification caused by consumption of human flesh or blood. Although rather disturbing, sexual cannibalism is now accepted as the more common variety of cannibalism (O’Connor).
Transvestic Fetishism is a psychosexual disorder found mostly in men. To better understand this disorder, we must first look at the definition. Transvestism is defined as dressing in the clothing of the opposite sex to achieve sexual arousal, excitement, and gratification. Fetishism is the reliance on nonhuman objects as the preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement. The major symptom of fetishism is the use of nonliving objects to obtain sexual arousal. The most common fetish objects are articles of women's clothing such as bras, underpants, stockings, shoes and boots. The individual will often masturbate while fondling, kissing, or smelling the fetish object. In other cases, the individual's sexual partner will wear the object during sexual encounters, thereby providing an arousing stimulus that enables the fetishist to participate in otherwise normal sexual behavior. Thus, men suffering from transvestic fetishism gain sexual pleasure from dressing in women's clothing, a behavior defined as cross-dressing.
Transsexuals, defined simply is a person who from the very core of there being feels like they are in the wrong orientation and transgenderism is that state of being when one's gender doesn't match those feelings. In the case of transgender children they usually feel like god made a mistake and in some case scenarios boys particularly try to alleviate the situation themsel...
The first introduction of gender related disorders was in 1980 in the DSM-III, divided into two categories, transsexualism and gender identity disorder of childhood (Kamens, 2011). The later diagnosed as a child having a “strongly and persistently stated desire” or “insistence” that one was the opposite sex (Zucker, 2009; American Psychiatric Association, 1980). Revised categories in the DSM-III-R (1987) included: gender identity disorder of adolescence and adulthood nontranssexual (GIDAANT), and not otherwise specified (GI...
It is important to understand the difference between gender and sex. The English language defines “sex” by using the anatomy that an individual is born with. In other words, the reproductive organs that makes someone female or male. “Sex” also includes the chromosomes that someone obtains to make them male or female, the different gonads, sex hormones and the inner and outer genitalia. When defining gender dysphoria and its connection to sex. Within the gender dysphoria disorder, which is a sex disorder, there are other developments that affect the normal and natural indications of each sex assignments. The use of “cross-sex” hormones, are very popular when someone is trying to masculinize or feminize the individuals original gender.
Clinically speaking, a person who was assigned female at birth but identifies and lives as a man is referred to as a transsexual man, or transman, or female-to-male (FTM); a male-to-female (MTF) person is a transsexual woman or transwoman (Glicksman). Some people drop the transgender label after they have transitioned to their new gender. However, they want to be referred to only as a man or a woman. But what if our gender identity, our sense of being a boy or being a girl, does not match our physical body? From a very early age we will start to feel increasingly uncomfortable. For some this is a mild discomfort, for others it is so traumatic they would rather die than continue to live in the wrong body. Unfortunately as transsexual people are a small minority of the population the condition has been labeled by Psychiatrists as "Gender Identity Disorder". With the transgendered, the disordered assumption is that the
Looking at the Functionalist perspective it is perceived that the transgender community goes against society’s traditional concept of sex and gender. Transgender gender-nonconforming individuals face many obstacles in a society that is unforgiving of any individual who does not fit into the “appropriate” expectations or behaviors of gender identity or a gender binary system. The rules of behavior in our society that are considered “appropriate” for women or men inhibit us all. This is the social construction of gender roles, patterns of socially defined behaviors and expectations that are associated with the female and male; men have to dress, act, and speak in a hard, masculine way, while women are to be feminine and soft. There’s not much room for individuality there and for some of us, this is a little more challenging. There seem to be some misconceptions about gender and sex, I believe it is much more complex than we came to
The term “fetishism” first came to light in 1887. Psychologist Alfred Binet first presented the terminology to explain those that feel sexually attracted to inanimate objects. As the years passed, other psychologists such as Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Sigmund Freud made adjustments to the word until it encompassed all overwhelming urges to use an object or part of the body that is normally considered nonsexual to reach sexual fulfillment. (Sexual Fetishism, 2003, Metacalf, Luke, Nationmaster.com) Until the time of the sexual revolution, fetishes where thought of as abnormal or deviant behaviors and mental illnesses. However, in more recent years the more acceptable “paraphilia” has been used to label those who have peculiar sexual desires. (Crooks & Baur, (2013). Our Sexuality (12 Edition) Page 488)
There are many different types of fetishes out in the world today. According to the book, “Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes and Unusual Sexual Practices”, written by Anil Aggrawal, there are about five hundred-forty-seven terms describing paraphilic sexual interests. Anil Aggrawal describes Sexual Fetishism as, “Reliance on some non-living objects as a stimulus for sexual arousal and sexual gratification” (15). A fetish can be both physical as well as a mental aspect of sexuality Just to name a few fetishes and their definitions:
According to Davis, who said that “…there were an increasing number of men who lived as women during the nineteenth century and were only discovered to be men when they died” (pg. 228), there were many people who cross-dressed in public. Transgender people back then were hard to detect in that time due to the fact that they lumped them in together with the homosexual men but there are a few cases of transgender people being known such as a case Davis described of the “French hermaphrodite Herculine Barbin, who committed suicide after being forced to abandon a female identity and assume a male identity” She was of a gender she did not like and viewed herself as a woman and when they forced her to be a man she killed
The diagnosis found in the movie transamerica is the disorder of gender dysphoria. The criteria for this disorder is found in the DSM-5 book of psychological disorders, and will be explained in this paragraph. Within the charachteristics of a gender dyaphoric person are: When an individual has a noticeable conflict between his or her experience or expressed gender and essential or trivial sex qualities, or both. For instance, an example of this criterion is seen in minute #3 of the movie “Transamerica”; when “Bri”, the transexual-principal character of the movie expresses her doctor that her penis disgusts her. Also, if a person has a tenacoius longing to be free from his or her primary or secondary sex characteristics, due to a marked incongruence
Understanding the Psychology of Foot Fetishism Sex is one of the most natural things in the world, considering that it's part of a biological process. But as what sex educator and relationship expert Dr. Yvonne Fulbright said, it is one topic that remains taboo to this day. Sex isn't something anyone discusses in the open. So imagine the struggle of people with fetishes to discuss their needs, and find answers to questions or clarification to the confusing feelings they're experiencing. How would you know if your obsession with a foot is normal or abnormal if you can't talk about it?