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In this chapter, transsexual informants discussed several additional aspects of autogynephilic sexuality. Many reported that autogynephilic fantasies were obligatory for achieving orgasm. Some observed that autogynephilic arousal was at times unwanted, unpleasant, or distressing. Others reported that their autogynephilic desires and associated gender dysphoria would briefly disappear immediately following orgasm, only to be replaced by feelings of disgust or remorse. Partly for this reason, informants sometimes tried to prolong autogynephilic arousal by avoiding or delaying orgasm. A few informants believed that the remission of their cross-gender wishes following orgasm confirmed the paraphilic basis of autogynephilic transsexualism. Informants experienced a wide range of responses to feminizing hormone therapy: Some appreciated both the physical feminization and reduction of libido that hormones produced, but others discovered that hormone therapy eliminated both their desire to present themselves as women and their desire to continue using feminizing hormones. Informants described several other paraphilic sexual interests that co-occurred with autogynephilia, including sexual masochism (which sometimes manifested as an interest in forced feminization), specific sexual attraction to other MtF transgender persons (gynemimetophilia), pedophilia, infantilism (autonepiophilia), leg-brace paraphilia (autoabasiophilia), and other unspecified paraphilias.
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Lawrence, A.A. (2012). Other Aspects of Autogynephilic Sexuality. In: Men Trapped in Men's Bodies. Focus on Sexuality Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5182-2_9
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