Little is known about men's
sexual desire for and erotic attraction to male-to-female transgender women. To
better understand how erotic desire is constructed, this study examined the
narratives of a sample of heterosexual men who had had an occasional sexual
encounter with a transgender woman.
Open-ended qualitative interviews were
conducted with 16 heterosexual men who reported at least one sexual encounter
with a transgender woman in the previous 12 months. Using principles of
Grounded Theory, three themes emerged:
- the erotic desire that transpired from a transgender woman's construction of her femininity,
- the sexual act that dictated the specific navigation of a transgender woman's penis and
- the sexual dissonance that resulted from being a heterosexually identified man having sex with a partner who had a penis.
The
role of the 'illusion' was central to the meaning and construction of erotic
desire. These narratives provided another framework for continuing discourse on
the complexity of erotic desire.
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By: Reback CJ1,2, Kaplan RL1,3, Bettcher TM4, Larkins S2.
- 1 Friends Research Institute, Inc. , Los Angeles , USA.
- 2 Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior , University of California at Los Angeles , California , USA.
- 3 Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health , University of California at San Francisco , San Francisco , USA.
- 4 Department of Philosophy , California State University , Los Angeles , USA.
- Cult Health Sex. 2016 Mar 11:1-13.
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