Are Cross-dresser prone to other fetishes???

[CONSUELO]

I read your comment and still cannot see on what basis you say the study is grossly flawed. Was the sample size statistically insignificant? Were the correlations incorrect? I did not say the study fitted me but the correlations that the study revealed matched me in several ways.
From the quotes that I read, the study did not say that attraction to the same sex was a fetish, only that there is a statistically significant correlation. I did not say that sexual preference is a fetish and as I read it, the study only said there was a correlation between cross dressing and having a same sex experience. That does not mean that all cross dressers have a same sex experience or want one only that there is a statistically significant correlation between the two.At the end of the day it is just another statistical study. As I read it the study did not come out with definitions and neither did it create categories.

[Lucy_Bella]

CONSUELO,
The study was done in a small Geo graphical area with in a general population ..If it were done in Rome at 500 B.C. the whole world would have been Greek Mythological but as they later found out there we other civilizations with their own beliefs... Religion being the umbrella and although it worked out fine in Rome it didn't with the other parts of the world.. Many wars were fought due to these beliefs or the lack of as the influence spread..In other words you can not sample a Geo Graphical area and expect it to be true with the rest of the world..

So the only thing this study proves to hold true is how people are in Sweden ..

[CONSUELO]

Sure, that is an issue with many such statistical studies and if it were done in Rome in some year just BC it would tell us something about the Romans at that time. Likewise this study tells us something about the Swedish population. The Swedish people are probably not too much different from us and so the study may have some relevance. My only point is that this is a statistically based study. If it is wrong then it must have a flaw in the design or the methodology. I still don't understand if there is a flaw in design or methodology and if there is what it is specifically,and my reading of all of the posts on this thread have not told me either.
Meanwhile some of the correlations that they refer to certainly fit me. It tells me nothing about how I should be "labelled" and nothing about how I came to be what I am today. It is interesting but just a small part of the picture about crossdressing/transvestism.

[Lucy_Bella]

I came across this article in scientific journals:

Abstract
We used a random sample of 2,450 18-60 year-olds in the general population of Sweden to study the prevalence as well as the social, sexual, and health . A positive attitude to this sexual practice and paraphilia indicators--sexual arousal from using pain, exposing genitals to a stranger, and spying on others having sex--were particularly strong correlates to the dependent variable.)

Right here it is flawed , a random sample ..Based on what? Paraphilia and sexual practices indicators..

(1) In this study it said at least one episode of TF, that does not equate to a fetishism.. What was the percentage of more than once verses just once?

(2) Being easily sexual aroused ....To what? Who isn't easily sexually aroused ?

(3) Pornography use... How and what type of porno?

(4) What was the total percentage of T/F's with in this sample population verses the ones who fall under the paraphilia subjects?

(5) Transvestic Fetishism .. Based on what study of TF ? How does Sweden define TF? Based on this random study it says that almost 3 out of 2,500 people are Paraphilia's.. Sweden is pretty Liberal .. Diversity plays a large part in any study ..

[Wildaboutheels]

I'll bet a weeks pay that few people realize that ANY study can be 100% accurate but have absolutely ZERO to do with reality? ANY study can be made to show/prove whatever it wants to by using "selective practices". This particular "study" has so many flaws and holes in it, that one could easily drive an ocean liner through.

[Jenniferathome]

... and health correlates of transvestic fetishism (sexual arousal from cross-dressing). ...

Herein lies the flaw in your question. A "cross dresser" is not necessarily doing so for fetishism. Nor is cross dressing necessarily a fetish.

So, I am a cross dresser who does so not as a fetish.