"I didn't necessarily want to be the animal but I wanted to be the animal shape."

That's a quote about a childhood memory from an interesting article on Furries. Yes, we have chuckled at this before, but swap animal for woman in that comment and you've got most crossdressers!

Here's the article.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2001/03/furries200103

My curiosity was peaked when Katie mentioned biology and I got thinking how other men have equally strong 'habits'. Sure enough, the similiarities are obvious. As a non crossdresser and a female who can only look in from the outside at all this, well damn if your two worlds don't collide. How can it be there are men who feel as strongly about presenting as animals as y'all do as women? What about the other sub cultures we never hear about? Is it because emulating a woman is seen as slightly less weird and more common that people don't connect them? Maybe it's only more common because women are everywhere, but otherwise the stripes really are the same?

We've joked here about Furries and other 'fetish' type groups, but did anyone here know they also have forums where they discuss how hard it is on their marriages, how much they hate living a dual life. There's even a forum like crossdressers.com where they squabble over who has an authentic identity and who is just into kink. Sound familiar?

Have a read. The question then becomes not 'why do men crossdress' and 'how do we stop crossdressing' because clearly men do all kinds of things. The question instead is 'how do we live with this.'

Yeah, I haven't figured that out, yet, either. Can someone please let me know when they do lol. x