The Admirable Transvestite
By JT Brien
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Whereas some years ago the greatest fear of transvestites and those who knew about them was that they might be gay, now it is that they might be transsexual. I hope I have shown the reasons transvestites have for dressing need not include a desire for surgery. Certainly the man whose female wardrobe consists of things like seven-inch stilettos and fishnet stockings is hardly likely to want a sex-change.
By contrast, many transsexuals (people who believe they really are female but were born male - or vice versa) do not dress at all unless they are actually living as women. Because they are sure of what they consider to be their true sex, dressing would only make them too painfully aware of how their bodies fail to live up to it.
Both types of transvestite, and other types I have not yet covered, dress in response to basic human needs, and the women they portray reflect those needs. Whether mother or mistress, lady or femme fatale, they are creations of their own male minds. The particular method that the transvestite uses to bring these images of women to life may be peculiar, but the images themselves are not - they are common to all men and can be traced through the years in art and literature. There is hardly a word that a man has written about his true love that a transvestite has not applied to his fantasy woman.
Men see women not only as mothers and mistresses but as many other things as well. The man who first starts dressing usually has a rather extreme image in mind. If it is a mistress figure, his first experiences may arouse him to orgasm. That level of intensity does not last. The woman he has made himself is different from the fantasy he had of how she would be, because she is flesh and blood. Every man who ever fell in love with a woman has had the same sort of experience.
The wise man is the one who knows that the dream must be tailored to the reality rather than vie-versa. In this the transvestite, if he is wise, has an advantage over other men. His woman is not just flesh and blood but his flesh, his blood. He knows her better than any sister. Whatever image he throws on her, he can change and alter until it fits exactly.
So it is that the more experience a transvestite has, the more real his "woman" is, and the more realistic his expectations of other women become...
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