Cross-Dressing - Prevention by Parenting?
Cross-dressing is associated with problems in parenting and may be preventable. Recently a male student in Pune was found dead with a wig and female articles of clothing lying about his room. Types of cross-dressing Cross-dressers in society are psychologically indistinguishable from non-cross-dressing men (Brown 1996). Fetishistic transvestism Almost three percent of men and 0.4% of women have had at least one episode of transvestic fetishism (sexual arousal from cross-dressing) (langstrom 2005). However, these 'nuclear' transvestites are less likely to venture out dressed in public. Transvestism 'Marginal’ transvestites experience non-sexual pleasure from cross-dressing and are more likely to appear in public while cross-dressed. They are probably a separate group and more likely to be homosexual. Transsexualism Cross-dressers could also be transsexuals who desire surgical sex reassignment . Cross-dressing in Asians is one of the earliest signs of transexua...