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Men and paraphilias

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FindTheTruth · 28/11/2021 16:05

Norms exist for a reason and should not be erased
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CheeseMmmm · 02/12/2021 22:52

Men KNOW that ordinary women. Their mums grannies sisters aunts friends (if any?!) don't think or feel that stuff.

They ignore that in favour of a fantasy.

CheeseMmmm · 02/12/2021 22:50

Find-

Those examples are SO American! And with 'maid' dunno if that's a class thing or a race thing!

Just so weird to read!

Examples obv vv different across time, country, class etc etc.

I mean 'douching' was a thing there wtf. Really not a good thing to do! Fetishising that... As if American women sqirting watered down Dettol up themselves was a sexual thing for them.

Ffffffffffs

Datun · 02/12/2021 12:32

[quote FindTheTruth]From earlier in the thread.

A TRA was claiming that most women have AGP - it's just 'feeling sexy'.'

Men with AGP have been saying for yonks that women have it too.

is surely just taking women's requirement to self-objectify under a patriarchy and using it against us to claim it's an innate part of being a woman?

Ray Blanchard answers the Question with "I do not believe that autogynephilia occurs in natal females." and "It seems a lot less feasible when one considers the various other ways in which some autogynephilic men symbolize themselves as women in their masturbation fantasies. Examples I have collected include: sexual fantasies of menstruation and masturbatory rituals that simulate menstruation; giving oneself an enema, while imagining the anus is a vagina and the enema is a vaginal douche; helping the maid clean the house; sitting in a girls’ class at school; knitting in the company of other women; and riding a girls’ bicycle. These examples argue that autogynephilic sexual fantasies have a fetishistic flavor that makes them qualitatively different from any superficially similar ideation in natal females."

"There is also the telling phenomenon of autogynephiles who are involuntarily aroused by cross-dressing or cross-gender ideation, and who complain about difficulties changing into women’s attire without triggering erection or ejaculation. It seems likely that few natal women would give the analogous reports that they wish that they could put on their clothes without triggering vaginal lubrication or orgasm"

quillette.com/2019/11/06/what-is-autogynephilia-an-interview-with-dr-ray-blanchard/[/quote]
It does make me laugh that men have to go into these realms of explanation about why women don't fetishise their own sex.

They could, you know, just ask a couple.

FindTheTruth · 02/12/2021 12:29

From earlier in the thread.

A TRA was claiming that most women have AGP - it's just 'feeling sexy'.'

Men with AGP have been saying for yonks that women have it too.

is surely just taking women's requirement to self-objectify under a patriarchy and using it against us to claim it's an innate part of being a woman?

Ray Blanchard answers the Question with "I do not believe that autogynephilia occurs in natal females." and "It seems a lot less feasible when one considers the various other ways in which some autogynephilic men symbolize themselves as women in their masturbation fantasies. Examples I have collected include: sexual fantasies of menstruation and masturbatory rituals that simulate menstruation; giving oneself an enema, while imagining the anus is a vagina and the enema is a vaginal douche; helping the maid clean the house; sitting in a girls’ class at school; knitting in the company of other women; and riding a girls’ bicycle. These examples argue that autogynephilic sexual fantasies have a fetishistic flavor that makes them qualitatively different from any superficially similar ideation in natal females."

"There is also the telling phenomenon of autogynephiles who are involuntarily aroused by cross-dressing or cross-gender ideation, and who complain about difficulties changing into women’s attire without triggering erection or ejaculation. It seems likely that few natal women would give the analogous reports that they wish that they could put on their clothes without triggering vaginal lubrication or orgasm"

quillette.com/2019/11/06/what-is-autogynephilia-an-interview-with-dr-ray-blanchard/

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Nellodee · 02/12/2021 07:35

What is highly sexualising fashion?
Crop tops? Tank tops? Shorts? Ripped jeans? Should teenage girls be forced to cover themselves head to toe in baggy sacks? Because I’m pretty sure that pervy men will happily interpret anything that reveals any scrap of the female form as indication that the wearer is a slutty little Lolita.
It really isn’t about what the teenager is wearing, it’s about what the man is thinking about what’s underneath the clothes. Responsibility must always be entirely on the adult.

FindTheTruth · 02/12/2021 06:44

TRA's hate this book, whilst TW think it's honest. The first 11 chapters are devoted to narratives written by autogynephilic's, honest about their sexual arousal ...

Review: "I hadn't realised the extent of this as a paraphilia, a male fantasy of what it is to be a women and how they are driven to act out their imagined female role as a life performance, "Imagining being pregnant, menstruating or lactating, wearing “women’s” clothes/underwear, imagining having grown up as a little girl, showering in women’s spaces surrounded by women and “belonging” there legally, using a feminine name, having a feminine voice, tossing one’s hair"

www.amazon.co.uk/Trapped-Mens-Bodies-Autogynephilic-Transsexualism-ebook/dp/B00APXDL9E?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

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CheeseMmmm · 01/12/2021 20:00

I explained at LENGTH the parts I thought were grim and why.

Rather than acknowledge any of that. You say oh you took it wrong and you're making it up.

Nope.

You also don't realise that girls (and women) get sexually harrassed, obscene comments, sexual assault etc etc no matter WHAT THEY ARE WEARING.

That's also really out of line.

CheeseMmmm · 01/12/2021 19:56

And men are more than capable of not sexually harassing women and girls.

Most don't. Most also don't see schoolgirls including older primary girls and think cor yummy. Are they a biological dead end? Or is your as soon as periods ready for fucking adult men IT'S BIOLOGY missing the point that irrespective of boobs growing periods until fully mature which takes ages, those girls are NOT a good choice for procreation as their bodies are not yet ready.

Maybe that why most men fancy GROWN UPS. want to fuck women. Young yes. 14 15 16 not good. That's still no excuse for harrassment. Which is often when girls are in school uniform which is a bit of a clue.

No you're talking ogling as soon as periods breasts. So from 10ish. Primary school.

No. You can't post a different thing and wave away what you said.

Is the followingof any interest to you whatsoever?

'Complications during pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death for 15–19-year-old girls globally. '

'Adolescent mothers (ages 10–19 years) face higher risks of eclampsia, puerperal endometritis, and systemic infections than women aged 20 to 24 years, and babies of adolescent mothers face higher risks of low birth weight, preterm delivery and severe neonatal conditions.'

Fucks your 'if there's grass on the pitch then play' or whatever it is. I have heard middle aged men say that in the pub a couple of times and all laugh. I'm sure you can guess what it means.

It's NOT a good reproductive strategy. Best chances of healthy offspring are with MATURE women.

You're previous posts aren't erased by your attempt at justification.

LobsterNapkin · 01/12/2021 19:48

@CheeseMmmm

That's not what you said at all though is it. What you said and the implications were awful. As per my posts.
That's is what I said. We can emphasis or not emphasize biological reproductive status through a variety of cultural media, and when we pretend that doesn't have impact, it does no favours for girls. Because we end up not using those tools. It's possible to shape behaviour, including male behaviour, but only within the limits set by nature.

I have no clue what you think I said, but it doesn't seem particularly close to what I intended. You have a tendency to assume that other posters mean something that often, they don't.

CheeseMmmm · 01/12/2021 19:39

That's not what you said at all though is it. What you said and the implications were awful. As per my posts.

LobsterNapkin · 01/12/2021 19:33

@CheeseMmmm

If your point was that how societies define child age is constructed then yes that's true.

However you go beyond that by saying that when it comes to girls and men and sex. Then it's so artificial as to be totally pointless and nature will naturally prevail.

It's there to try and reduce the harm done to girls. By men.

Not at all.

What I am saying is that the unchangeable element that we have to work with is sexual reproduction. Once we have visible secondary sexual characteristics that will be noticed. For the exact same reason people will say here that it is so difficult to not notice someone's sex. The wiring, or lizard brain, or whatever you want to call it, notices these things and links them to fertility and reproduction.

Beyond that, we have all kinds of reasons to try and construct, as you say, what counts as a child. Certainly well beyond the beginnings of puberty at nine or ten, and in our society often a fair bit beyond that.

If we want to avoid as much as possible men making inappropriate comments to girls, or girls feeling too stressed about their changing status, or just men seeing quite young women as appropriate sexual partners, that has to be done quite carefully. The signals should be quite clear, not just overt ones like "this is illegal" but also the more subtle social ones.

Our society however is quite bad at the latter. We seem to be of two minds. On the one hand people flip out if anyone admits outright that it is completely biologically normal to be sexually attracted to a person with secondary sexual characteristics, even men being attracted to girls who are legally able to consent to sex is sometimes described as gross and abnormal. At the same time, we seem to think that it's ok to dress young girls as if they were women, or claim that teen girls should be free to wear highly sexualizing fashion without it impacting whether they are seen as appropriate sexual partners.

It's like we gaslight ourselves, and it makes the situation worse for girls, not better.

FindTheTruth · 01/12/2021 18:11

men and paraphilia's are at the heart of this mess. Not the Trans women with gender dysphoria but men with paraphilia's. We need to be able to name it and talk about it

THREAD BY:

Lorelei
@hatpinwoman
I’m intending to reread Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies but in the meantime I thought I’d do a thread with some extracts from the narratives of men with autogynephilia from the book

Understanding this paraphilia is imperative for all of us talking about the erosion of women’s rights

mobile.twitter.com/hatpinwoman/status/1466071208970137616

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CheeseMmmm · 01/12/2021 15:18

Surely not?!

flygirl1983 · 01/12/2021 03:28

@CheeseMmmm

I skimmed your post Jessie and I'm not sure how it relates to the thread.

The OP was about fetishes and currently it's gone into girls, puberty, breasts. Currently talk is mainly about girls, puberty, breasts. Which stemmed from a belief someone had about women having social position decided by breast size.

Can you explain how your post relates to the topic?

All I got was a load of stuff about your sex life, and your perception of current views amongst trans people around gender presentation.

Oh and saying 'the trans' is really out of order. People is the word you are looking for.

I admire your tolerance but I think this is a troll.
CheeseMmmm · 01/12/2021 02:34

I know you often join threads like this to give the 'alternative view'.

But I do think you've crossed a line here.

CheeseMmmm · 01/12/2021 02:33

There was a boy at DD school who matured v early.

In final primary year he was v tall, voice had broken, build, facial features of adult man.

You would then say if he had at 11 had a man on the street say something like. I'd like to suck you're cock.
That's a totally different thing to if it were the other boys in the class who looked like children. Surely.

CheeseMmmm · 01/12/2021 02:30

If your point was that how societies define child age is constructed then yes that's true.

However you go beyond that by saying that when it comes to girls and men and sex. Then it's so artificial as to be totally pointless and nature will naturally prevail.

It's there to try and reduce the harm done to girls. By men.

CheeseMmmm · 01/12/2021 02:27

'Physically mature enough to be seen as women?...
you can't really do is turn back time and change how mammals notice fertile partners....'

MEN. you mean. Not everyone. Men.

How can you not have noticed that women are constantly trying to protect girls from men? Are pushing for girls to not be seen as fertile partners to men? Partners means relationship or sex partner. Fertile means old enough for impregnation.
Results.
Child marriage. IE rape. And the massive consequences of having a baby with a body that is not developed enough to really cope with it.
Girls being coerced, raped, assaulted, groomed, sold for sex.
And naturally due to what their bodies are like society treats them the same as women. What was she wearing/ why was she there/ does she have previous sexual experience, etc. Children. Who are subjected to awful things almost always be men because they 'look old enough'. And society says. Well she certainly looks old enough!

'Society can provide lots of scaffolding to say, these girls are to be treated as children, but not at the same time as denying that they need to do so because they are starting to not be children.'

Who denies that? It's the whole point! And the idea that girls still at primary school are becoming not children is just nasty.

CheeseMmmm · 01/12/2021 02:10

@LobsterNapkin

I mean, I am not sure Cheez that there is any way around the fact that when girls start to develop secondary sexual characteristics, they start to be seen in a different way. That's partly why we have them.

I am not sure, with girls, that we do them any favours by trying to avoid telling them that when they are physically mature enough to be perceived as women that what they wear can exaggerate or minimize that. It's possible to choose either, but what you can't really do is turn back time and change how mammals notice fertile partners.

Society can provide lots of scaffolding to say, these girls are to be treated as children, but not at the same time as denying that they need to do so because they are starting to not be children.

No no no nope.

You are responding, I assume due to what your post says, to my previous post. You must have read it at least.

And you see fit to post that. With tone of apparently explaining the situation to someone who needs the facts started to them, because they are a bit deluded.

I have pointed out issues with what happens. Things like-

  • It can start when girls are as young as 9 or 10
  • Girls have for a long time been so uncomfortable with the total change in the way loads of men behave towards them when breasts start to be apparent. I mentioned obscene comments from random strangers on the street. Those words.
  • Society in general taking the view that girls wearing various things are doing it on purpose because they want sexual attention from any and all men

Tbc

CheeseMmmm · 01/12/2021 01:56

I skimmed your post Jessie and I'm not sure how it relates to the thread.

The OP was about fetishes and currently it's gone into girls, puberty, breasts. Currently talk is mainly about girls, puberty, breasts. Which stemmed from a belief someone had about women having social position decided by breast size.

Can you explain how your post relates to the topic?

All I got was a load of stuff about your sex life, and your perception of current views amongst trans people around gender presentation.

Oh and saying 'the trans' is really out of order. People is the word you are looking for.

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LobsterNapkin · 01/12/2021 01:41

I mean, I am not sure Cheez that there is any way around the fact that when girls start to develop secondary sexual characteristics, they start to be seen in a different way. That's partly why we have them.

I am not sure, with girls, that we do them any favours by trying to avoid telling them that when they are physically mature enough to be perceived as women that what they wear can exaggerate or minimize that. It's possible to choose either, but what you can't really do is turn back time and change how mammals notice fertile partners.

Society can provide lots of scaffolding to say, these girls are to be treated as children, but not at the same time as denying that they need to do so because they are starting to not be children.

CheeseMmmm · 01/12/2021 01:30

It was definitely in grease. As well. That's where I know it from. Can't be the only one!

LobsterNapkin · 01/12/2021 01:29

@foxgoosefinch

I grew up in the 90s when the aesthetic was very small breasted and perky - and especially, you were not considered sexy unless you were extremely thin, and could wear strappy tops and dresses with no bra/no support. I was deeply ashamed of my larger breasts, and bought those M&S Minimiser bras to hide them - having large breasts really limited what clothes you could wear. The youth culture and fashion message then was very much that bigger breasts were fat, saggy, vulgar and mumsy. Big breasts were certainly not going to give you any social points - rather the reverse!

It wasn’t until the big breasted look came back into fashion in the mid-2000s that I realised, to my utter astonishment, that suddenly they were considered sexy. That a was a definitely not my experience as a teenager or a young adult. I tried to hide them away as much as possible and was very jealous of friends who were flatter-chested.

I think something similar is driving the teen girl binding culture - not only the gender stuff, but also that the past two decades’ fashion for big breasts and bums is shifting/about to shift again.

Yes, heroin chic had a lot to answer for. And Kate Moss, who really was very classically beautiful I think, but man difficult to live up to if you were curvy.

Different silhouettes have certainly dominated in various eras. You might be right about a shift in body type, I notice some of the trendy clothing seems to be moving towards 90s styles, my 13 year old looks like she should be at a Nirvana concert while my 16 year old seems to be in kind of Twin Peaks mode.

LobsterNapkin · 01/12/2021 01:23

@CheeseMmmm

Just realised.

The must increase bust thing is grease isn't it.

ONJ the star. Who stuns everyone esp the blokes including the v cool one she fancies.

I mean I wouldn't usually point this out but she was not massive in the bust dept by any means. Yet back then seen as vv sexy including by men. Remember physical?!

No, it's from the Judy Blume book, Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret.

It seems to be younger teens who are sometimes so obsessed with breast size. Probably because they are uneven in their development, with some farther along and others still childlike, and they also are young enough they don't really understand all the factors involved in being attractive.

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