Like a Moth to a Flame

[Dee-anna]

Yes google brought me here i was looking for other crossdressing stories not based on porn to read and see weather i was normal,i am i just like to dress up in girls clothes and feel pretty. i joined after years of lurking i love the stories and advice i read here.

[franlee]

1) How did you find this website? Years ago I ran across it while looking for other CDer's and enjoyed the post and pictures.
2) What made you want to join? I like good mature conversations with like minded people that actually know what they and I have gone through. Sharing here and there with honesty and not worrying about being different or guarded.

In most every sense of my quest here I have found someone who has experienced it, is going through it or has the same questions or anticipation for doing whatever it may be. It has been gratifying to read others thoughts and experiences too.

[Lacey New]

I will echo what many are saying in their posts. I was (still am) trying to figure myself out - what am I? What variety of crossdresser am I? Where do I fit in the transgender scale? Why do I do it? Am i alone? are there others like me and what are their feelings about being a crossdresser? Where are good and safe places to go? To shop? So, while searching the web for answers to these questions, I found this site, lurked for a while then established a pseudonym e-mail account and subsequently joined this site. It has been a good sharing experience ever since. I am not looking to "hook up" for sex just for intelligent conversation about the trait we all share in common.

[sara66]

My wife found this site when I came out to her. She was looking for why I would dress in women's clothes. I started lurking for a few months. I found most people here are very similar to me and my experience. I have found good insight and comfort.
Sara

[Krisi]

I found this website with a web search and I joined to learn more about how to present as a female. I learned about breast forms, wigs and padding my hips, something I had not thought of before. I learned about buying shoes at Payless and how to jus "own it" when buying things for Krisi.

I learned that there were others like me and that it's generally OK to be a crossdresser as long as it doesn't take over your life.

[donnalee]

After 2 years of tripping over sites that verged on the pornographic and others that seemed to primarily be for hooking up with sex workers, I finally stumbled on this one and joined immediately.

[alwayshave]

I was a member at another site, he wears panties. Someone mentioned this site. The rest is history.

[Lily Catherine]

I was searching for psychological motivations for crossdressing, steering myself clear from anything remotely fetishistic or sexualised (which, incidentally, I was exposed to in spades as well). This looked like a refuge for me from the visibly distorted picture that the likes of us were painted with elsewhere on the Web (and in real time, perish the thought...). I wasn't out at the time, and I was very reluctant to seek local help. I've shared - or is the word offloaded? - this side of me here, at any rate, since I had nowhere else to when I first joined.

More importantly, the discourse here was much more mature and comprehensive that the admittedly narrower material I found off the Web - once again, literally revolving around if not outright breathing fetishism and unrealistic fantasy. Either that, or dating sites with a fetishistic undertone. I personally avoid dating sites for the most part, out of intuition.

I am still lost, but a great deal less than had I not joined and thought it as a meaningless phase.

[Vicky Peters]

I didn't have time to search the internet for my question until I retired. My question is why do I enjoy crossdressing so much. I ran into the dating and porn site but no real help. Then I found this site and a lot of people asking the same question. I was nice to know I was not alone.

Thanks

[adrienner99]

I prowl the web ceaselessly for crossdressing help, photos, forums, etc. Why? Because I have spent many, many hours getting dressed, putting on makeup and perfume and jewelry, and then sitting at home alone. And it's curious that, having met other crossdressers over time, dressing and going out with a few, I cannot say that I have made any lifelong CD friends...I ADORE dresses and high heels and makeup and being feminine. And while most of us here would say the same thing, finding true CD friends just does not seem easy...This is not a complaint or a whine and I am grateful for the contact with other CDs I have had through this forum and other avenues...

[Stephanie47]

Like most I just "goggled" cross dressing. Of course, then one has to weed out a lot of porn sites. Frankly, giving out advice to a wife of "just google crossdressing" may not be the best way to encourage getting information. I'd recommend taking her to this site. Ah, I've digressed again.

Why join? Well, I found the section I was entitled to view as a 'lurker' to be informative and sane. Darn, how I hate what goes on at the end of all Internet news stories! I wanted to see what was in the other sections.

There are many persons posting on this site who really do not have a clue what life was without the Internet....years leading into decades of shame and misinformation. Frankly, we aging women are walking and talking history books.

[Kate Simmons]

I was searching for information on drag queens and this site popped up. I saw Karren Hutton had a particular posting, so contacted her personally. She said just join it and have fun, so I did. The rest as they say is history.

[LelaK]

It was summer 2012 and I had just decided that I needed to have a woman companion. But I also wanted to see if there were any good forums online about crossdressing, which I had long enjoyed doing in private. I kind of wanted to meet some CDs, but I guess I mainly wanted to find women (GGs) who like CDs. I found a few icky forums etc first, but then I found this one.

Still haven't found women who like CDs. I found one last year who said she was kind of a CD herself, but it turned out she didn't like me to crossdress at all and she thought I crossdressed because I wanted to be attractive to men. I managed to maintain a relationship with her anyway for 8 months, then luckily she decided to break up, I guess because she couldn't believe I wasn't attracted to men. That made me wary of admitting to any woman that I like to crossdress. My plan is to say I have a fetish, which is true, since fetish means a strong need or desire to do something.

[Lorileah]

I saw Karren Hutton had a particular posting, so contacted her personally. She said just join it and have fun, so I did. The rest as they say is history.

writing down "It's Karren's fault" She is such a rabble rouser

[Tina Davis]

I was looking for a non-fetish site with more information about people like me. I immediately felt that this forum was a safe place and joined. It didn't take long before I was posting pictures and encouraging others. Even though I haven't really dressed since the end of April (see my posts on that), I still feel a good connection with the people here. I'm glad I found this group!!

[Nikki A.]

I don't remember how I found this site.
However I liked it because it was clean, the discussions were informative and yet there could be some silliness at time to make you smile. Karen Hutton and Kimberly were always good for some laughs and some good tales. Kimberly's exploits in travelling gave me the courage to go out in public.
I forgot to mention my friend Kate who also helped show me that you should enjoy this gift that we have and just be yourself.

[NatalieLM]

I found it when I was searching the web for some CD advice. I was impressed with how helpful everyone was so I signed up as soon as I could come up with a username!