Frédérique
01-28-2013, 04:43 PM
Recently I came across a fragment of a crossdressing anime online. In it, a boy is “tricked” into wearing a skirt (the school uniform type) by his two so-called friends. Awesome, right? Well, not so fast. I think all three boys were supposed to wear skirts in unison on a dare, for whatever reason, but only one ended up IN a skirt, to the astonished amusement of his friends. Once he realizes he’s been fooled, the newly-skirted boy lashes out, using every drop of his testosterone in an attempt to neutralize any humiliation he feels, but he soon slumps to the floor in despair, the unwitting victim of a prank, a boy wearing a skirt. His friends tell the boy how GOOD he looks, snickering behind his back all the time, deepening the humiliation. Our hero seems to brighten up a little, feeling very vulnerable but changed by simply wearing a skirt – the other boys notice this, saying, and I quote, “Hey, what happened to your testosterone?” Good question...
All of the above is meant to be funny to an outsider or a casual viewer, in fact the anime in question carries a “funny” tag, but I find it to be more revealing, a veritable microcosm of what happens when a boy wears something he ain’t supposed to wear. Amongst his peers, the boy is mortified and angry, but this soon passes, and he becomes something else. The latter scares his friends, I think – what magical properties does a skirt possess, and is this something that MUST be tried at some point? More importantly, what DOES happen to your testosterone when you crossdress M to F? Something? Nothing? Personally, I think the testosterone is still there, ready to ACT, but it has somehow been sidestepped or tucked out of sight by rather odd circumstances. The initial shock of revealing parts of your body that are nearly always concealed has a lot to do with it, plus the unexpected expulsion into a No Man’s Land of repressed (female) feelings...
Coming up against such heady sensual pleasures testosterone doesn’t have a chance, as long as you let your male self “go” and accept change. I’ve done it, and it works beautifully. Granted, I don’t have too much problem with rampant masculinity, but it does rear its VERY ugly head on occasion. If someone or something is bothering me, my head gets filled with all sorts of ideas about what to do – my alleged male pride has been challenged, after all, and my dignity is being undermined! In short, everyone’s out to get me, according to my skewed male perception, and we (I mean I) have to put things right. In the past, I would spend a lot of time restraining my testosterone, and it gets very tiring. Oddly enough, when I wear a skirt, all of this male dross, this masculine detritus, dissipates like early morning fog, and all I did was change my clothes! Not many would appreciate this willful side-stepping of testosterone (to put a name on it), but it has been quite useful over the years. When I dress, the testosterone somehow goes missing...
Testosterone is a controversial subject on this particular site. Many of us MtF, male-by-birth types wrestle with the apparent effects of testosterone on a daily basis – I certainly try to diminish my male characteristics which have been with me since puberty, and crossdressing helps immensely. On the other hand, FtM crossdressers (seem to) welcome testosterone – I’ve seen many threads to that effect over in the transmasculine area. I’m no expert on testosterone, but I know it is there, in evidence, pulling the levers of my male existence, even as I try to distance Freddy from her male self via crossdressing. They say that testosterone decreases in males when you fall in love, and male behavior becomes less “distinct” from female behavior, unfortunately only a temporary reduction. Based on that, what happens when you crossdress and emotionally shorten the gulf between M and F? Are you in the process falling in love with your “self,” the ideal being you hope to create (or incorporate), and this means crossing the “T” in gender terms? I wonder...
But, since crossdressing is initially a risky venture for some of us, testosterone is required to take the plunge, and it plays a role in changing a person from selfless to selfish – how many times has CD’ing been described (here and elsewhere) as a selfish thing to do? Apparently testosterone gets the proverbial ball rolling towards doing something that, at least on the surface, seeks to negate testosterone at a stroke! I guess the boy in a skirt, slumped on the floor in abject humiliation, is simply not dressed properly to make proper use of his inherent testosterone. Maybe he’s not able to do anything because his nycthemeral rhythm is off. His what? It means “daily,” and the T level follows a rhythm that peaks early in the day. I always wondered why I burst out the door en femme at the break of dawn, only to feel vulnerable as all get-out by mid-morning, but it seems the very thing I’m trying to extinguish is propelling me headlong towards adventure. Hmmm. Much like my FtM brothers, I have a new appreciation for testosterone – I know that it cannot be completely blamed for male aggression, or any other traditional association, but something definitely happens when I crossdress, M to F. Maybe testosterone is a spectator, or a catalyst...
Nowadays you can’t watch TV for half an hour without being subjected to commercials about losing one’s testosterone, targeted primarily at older males, with restoration of a man’s sexual vitality the desired goal – health is a secondary consideration, but I wonder what effect this new influx of T will have on an unsuspecting male? Do you suppose some lucky individual, infused with youthful vigor, will think about crossdressing? Hey, it could happen! They don’t tell you about the side effects on these spurious TV ads, which may include the sudden urge to be truly adventurous and LEAP over the gender divide in a single bound. Once the blessed testosterone “propellant” burns up, you’ll be in orbit, around your “self,” in a weightless state of blissful calm, gazing out into a strange new universe. Much like the boy in a skirt, you’ll gradually feel good about yourself – less male, and more female, on a quest that few males dare to take. You can thank testosterone for encouraging you to take the first step! I don’t think anything “happens” to the notorious sex hormone once you crossdress – sometimes I wouldn’t know it’s even there, if it wasn’t for people reminding me, in no uncertain terms, that I’m lucky to have it...
What is your take on testosterone? Good? Bad? Indifferent? Does crossdressing seem to reduce your “T” in any way? :idontknow:
All of the above is meant to be funny to an outsider or a casual viewer, in fact the anime in question carries a “funny” tag, but I find it to be more revealing, a veritable microcosm of what happens when a boy wears something he ain’t supposed to wear. Amongst his peers, the boy is mortified and angry, but this soon passes, and he becomes something else. The latter scares his friends, I think – what magical properties does a skirt possess, and is this something that MUST be tried at some point? More importantly, what DOES happen to your testosterone when you crossdress M to F? Something? Nothing? Personally, I think the testosterone is still there, ready to ACT, but it has somehow been sidestepped or tucked out of sight by rather odd circumstances. The initial shock of revealing parts of your body that are nearly always concealed has a lot to do with it, plus the unexpected expulsion into a No Man’s Land of repressed (female) feelings...
Coming up against such heady sensual pleasures testosterone doesn’t have a chance, as long as you let your male self “go” and accept change. I’ve done it, and it works beautifully. Granted, I don’t have too much problem with rampant masculinity, but it does rear its VERY ugly head on occasion. If someone or something is bothering me, my head gets filled with all sorts of ideas about what to do – my alleged male pride has been challenged, after all, and my dignity is being undermined! In short, everyone’s out to get me, according to my skewed male perception, and we (I mean I) have to put things right. In the past, I would spend a lot of time restraining my testosterone, and it gets very tiring. Oddly enough, when I wear a skirt, all of this male dross, this masculine detritus, dissipates like early morning fog, and all I did was change my clothes! Not many would appreciate this willful side-stepping of testosterone (to put a name on it), but it has been quite useful over the years. When I dress, the testosterone somehow goes missing...
Testosterone is a controversial subject on this particular site. Many of us MtF, male-by-birth types wrestle with the apparent effects of testosterone on a daily basis – I certainly try to diminish my male characteristics which have been with me since puberty, and crossdressing helps immensely. On the other hand, FtM crossdressers (seem to) welcome testosterone – I’ve seen many threads to that effect over in the transmasculine area. I’m no expert on testosterone, but I know it is there, in evidence, pulling the levers of my male existence, even as I try to distance Freddy from her male self via crossdressing. They say that testosterone decreases in males when you fall in love, and male behavior becomes less “distinct” from female behavior, unfortunately only a temporary reduction. Based on that, what happens when you crossdress and emotionally shorten the gulf between M and F? Are you in the process falling in love with your “self,” the ideal being you hope to create (or incorporate), and this means crossing the “T” in gender terms? I wonder...
But, since crossdressing is initially a risky venture for some of us, testosterone is required to take the plunge, and it plays a role in changing a person from selfless to selfish – how many times has CD’ing been described (here and elsewhere) as a selfish thing to do? Apparently testosterone gets the proverbial ball rolling towards doing something that, at least on the surface, seeks to negate testosterone at a stroke! I guess the boy in a skirt, slumped on the floor in abject humiliation, is simply not dressed properly to make proper use of his inherent testosterone. Maybe he’s not able to do anything because his nycthemeral rhythm is off. His what? It means “daily,” and the T level follows a rhythm that peaks early in the day. I always wondered why I burst out the door en femme at the break of dawn, only to feel vulnerable as all get-out by mid-morning, but it seems the very thing I’m trying to extinguish is propelling me headlong towards adventure. Hmmm. Much like my FtM brothers, I have a new appreciation for testosterone – I know that it cannot be completely blamed for male aggression, or any other traditional association, but something definitely happens when I crossdress, M to F. Maybe testosterone is a spectator, or a catalyst...
Nowadays you can’t watch TV for half an hour without being subjected to commercials about losing one’s testosterone, targeted primarily at older males, with restoration of a man’s sexual vitality the desired goal – health is a secondary consideration, but I wonder what effect this new influx of T will have on an unsuspecting male? Do you suppose some lucky individual, infused with youthful vigor, will think about crossdressing? Hey, it could happen! They don’t tell you about the side effects on these spurious TV ads, which may include the sudden urge to be truly adventurous and LEAP over the gender divide in a single bound. Once the blessed testosterone “propellant” burns up, you’ll be in orbit, around your “self,” in a weightless state of blissful calm, gazing out into a strange new universe. Much like the boy in a skirt, you’ll gradually feel good about yourself – less male, and more female, on a quest that few males dare to take. You can thank testosterone for encouraging you to take the first step! I don’t think anything “happens” to the notorious sex hormone once you crossdress – sometimes I wouldn’t know it’s even there, if it wasn’t for people reminding me, in no uncertain terms, that I’m lucky to have it...
What is your take on testosterone? Good? Bad? Indifferent? Does crossdressing seem to reduce your “T” in any way? :idontknow: