By: Katie
Subject: Mystique
I was wondering if wives and partners of crossdressers somehow felt they'd lost some of their feminine mystique?
After all us crossdressers have learnt a few tricks of the trade when trying to get our presentations right. Shapewear, heels, makeup, bras, clothes etc can all be used to create an illusion.
Or do you think that us crossdressers can now appreciate all the time and effort it takes in making yourselves so WOW?
By: Katie
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Mystique
Epigenetics is very new and still very much in it's infancy but having read about it I don't think the jump is too great in assuming that if genes can be altered by certain events or influences (hormones, drugs etc) then the genes affecting 'femininity' can't be exaggerated in men. In teenagers it's hormonal, middle aged men stress (typically starts again) and I've also read about illness triggering crossdressing. It supposes that it lay dormant in every man it just needs the trigger.
It might be complete tosh but it's the best explanation I have ever found.
Here's a couple of articles to get you going:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/10369861/Epigenetics-How-to-alter-your-genes.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2014/apr/25/epigenetics-beginners-guide-to-everything
Finding a solution for crossdressing is probably a long way off. But if scientist can find a way of modifying genes then it is entirely possible.
The question you ask about whether I or any other crossdresser would change our behaviour if it was possible is interesting. My immediate t thought is yes. It would make life a lot easier! However, this is something that has been part of me for so many years and I'd be scared that taking it away may alter my personality in some way. I'd hate to lose crossdressing and then find I become the sort of man I despise. What if I'm a better person for my crossdressing? I do think it makes me more tolerant and understanding because I understand what it is like to be a member of a socially outcast group.
Equally you could ask a gay man if he could take a pill and wake up the next day straight would he do it? Think of how life changing that would be!
I guess we're just a whole melting pot and how we turn out is influenced by a whole host of factors. Some of them inherited, some of them environmental and some of them social.
It gets a bit dangerous when we can start picking and choosing. And even more if society starts making the choice on behalf of the individual. We'd end up like a bunch of Midwich cuckoos!