Quote Originally Posted by Jenny
After reading through several of the threads, it seems to me we have at least two different kinds of dressers on this forum. The first kind are those dressers who dress for the sexual thrill of wearing women's clothes and that is why they dress. The second kind are those who feel more like they are women and want to dress in women's clothes because that is the kind of clothes they should be wearing. For this group there is less of a sexual thrill to dressing. Maybe the first group are more transvestites and the second group are more transgendered.

I am not saying someone has to fit neatly into one group or the other or that one group is "better" than the other. I myself have gotten a sexual thrill out of dressing but my sexual excitement over getting dressed up usually disappears pretty quickly. I probably fit more in to the second group. I like to wear women's clothes because I think I look cute and sexy when I am dressed up but I don't dress up so much to be sexy to myself. I think about how other guys would look at me.

Does this seem like an accurate description? Are there other groups that I am overlooking? How do people feel they fit into these groups?
Why do I enjoy dressing-up as a woman and why do I like putting on sexy lingerie in addition to flashy skirts and dresses to achieve it? Undeniably for both reasons that Jenny points out. Unquestionably I have always derived a sexual thrill from it from the start. As soon as I begin putting on that lacy bra and panty as well as those thigh-highs hooking them into garters, something electrifies me. It always has since I started crossdressing. I used to watch my mother putting on her hosiery and bra and I thought that was toxic. I am still stimulated sexually today as I was then. Women are too when they put on clothing that is supposed to arouse.
Once my maleness has been satiated, I become a real female. I don't take the clothes off, but do womanly things around the house. When I read a book on the sofa, I cross my nylon covered legs and think of myself as a female.

Ivana