How many CD's in the world?

[carol ann]

I just wondered - having seen this and other CD sites - what percentage of men dress or would wish to dress as females. Is it less than 1%, 5% or 10% or higher. because so many of us have to stay in the closet because of the fear of upsetting family or damaging job prospects, I suppose we will never know.

I just know that , on a personal level, having a day on my own to dress up gives me a tremendous feeling of relief from the tensions of everyday life. Ii also find it exciting to go shopping.

[Jolene573]

I agree !!! Love having a day or two to be dressed and to enjoy all the pleasures of being dressed.

[Nikki Dee]

I just wondered - having seen this and other CD sites - what percentage of men dress or would wish to dress as females. Is it less than 1%, 5% or 10% or higher. because so many of us have to stay in the closet because of the fear of upsetting family or damaging job prospects, I suppose we will never know.

I just know that , on a personal level, having a day on my own to dress up gives me a tremendous feeling of relief from the tensions of everyday life. Ii also find it exciting to go shopping.
Hi. Love..you're right...we will never know.!!..the figures vary...but I guess far more than any of us think.!!....and I share your feelings.!!!
Love Nikki. x

[livy_m_b]

How many? A lot more than anyone imagines! All data is collected by self-reporting just as for sex in general and in the final analysis no one knows except the individual. I used to imagine setting a day and a time when everyone who crossdressed for any reason would step out of their door and look around - we would have many neighbors I think! :)

[Raychel]

I think we need a National Crossdressers Day. After a few years, I bet you would be surprised at just how may of us there are. I would guess somewhere around 20% just from the people that I know.

[Deidra Cowen]

I just get the feeling that we are pretty rare. 1% or less. Atlanta has a population of around 4 million people, yet the most CDs that show up for example at a club on the weekend is like thirty of us. Then if for example you go to yahoo and pull up CD profiles in Atlanta there are only about 200 or so.

None of that of course is a professional survey or scientific study but it makes me think we are fairly rare.

[Raychel]

200 That have profiles, How many are still in the closet or have no profiles. I can only think about how long it was before I found this site. Before that no one would have known that I CD. So just how many of us are still behind closed doors. I bet there are more than you think.

[Tiffy]

I was thinking it would really be between 20 to 30 %. I do not think we are as rare as we think we are. It might be that only 1 or 2% have the nerve to come out at all. And I would bet is is down in the .5 to .75% range that has the guts to go out and about dressed.

kisses, April Marie

[Jenny Beth]

I have seen all sorts of statistics that vary from 1% to 10%. I just wonder where whoever publishes these numbers gets their information from...no one has ever asked me. Seems to me the only way to really find out would be to ask the question on a census form but who'd want the government to know and who'd be truthful?

[Lindahexi]

I read in a recent medical journal that 50% of men try on their female partners clothes, and 10% go on to regularly crossdress. I imagine that the survey was based on doctors findings, and because of patient confidentiality no names were published.

[Billijo49504]

I don't remember the number, but I asked how many people were registered on this board, I was astonished. Maybe one of the super folks that keep this place going, will jump in with the number. And this is just one of many, and the best,places on the net. JMHO, but I think there are many more than the 10% that keeps getting tossed around.

[Holly]

Billie Jo, there's curently 3183 registered members of this forum... and there is a substantial number of guests who visit everyday. There's a lot of us out there!

[AprilMae]

2,324,546,321. Not counting Hollywood.

[Marlena Dahlstrom]

Richard Docter in his "Transvestites and Transsexuals" estimated the number regular crossdressers at 3-5% based on his experience studying CDs for a number of years. I've seen other figures cited that up to a third of men experiment with crossdressing at least once, although I've never seen this the original source mentioned.

But with any closeted poplation that's a guesstimate at best. There was a recent study in Sweden that put the number of all folks on the TG spectrum around 1%, but again there's questions about the methodology. I believe it was a random sample (good), but then you get into issues about how many people will admit to a stigmatized behavior.

There have been studies from non-Western cultures where the number of "third gender" folk was estimated to be around 1-2% -- but these were only those who chose to live full-time, and so captured only a portion of the TG spectrum. (I think it's likely these cultures also had what we'd consider part-time "crossdressers," although whether they act on those desires is anyone's guess.)

BTW, Lindahexi do you have a reference for the study you mentioned? I am interested in studies are less reliant on self-reported behavior -- for example looking at the percentage of male accident victims who are underdressed. Obviously that doesn't cover the full population, since not everyone underdresses every day. But it seems like that data combined with some surveys done in places like here about the extent and frequency of underdressing might be able to produce a better estimate of the population.

[DanaJ]

OK, what do you girls consider a CDer? Does a guy who puts on his wife's frilly robe just to go to the bathroom a CD? What about a guy who does it up for Halloween, or for a school play, and never does it again? I can see those questionaires: "Have you ever worn clothes of the opposite sex?". Joe Blow thinks "well, that was that time I put on my wife's socks because my feet were cold, OK I'll say yes". Next thing you know - news flash! OMG! 37.8792% of men are crossdressers.

My definition, you have to be a CD in your head - and with that, and from the DPNFMA (Department of Pulling Numbers From My A$$) - my number is 1% or less. That is people like us, from the person who only has a fetish for one piece of clothing to out-and-abouters.

[Carlacd]

My definition, you have to be a CD in your head - and with that, and from the DPNFMA (Department of Pulling Numbers From My A$$) - my number is 1% or less. That is people like us, from the person who only has a fetish for one piece of clothing to out-and-abouters.


Dana, you crack me up

[Raychel]

That was Bill Clinton's next line, wasn't it! Just what do you girls consider a CDer?

[Lindahexi]

Marlena, the medical journal that I referred to was in the waiting room of my dentist, if it's still there the next time I visit I will take the paticulars and PM the details to you.

[Shannon S.]

One-time curious dressing males would have to be thrown out of that equation. Only repetitive crossdressers should be considered.

I'd almost bet it's somewhere in the ballpark figure of 1-5% of the population.

:<3:Shannon S.:<3:

[KateW]

I imagine it to be higher then any official figures because so many remain closeted. I know of many friends who have shown some interest in female attire at some point. One often put on a skirt "to make people laugh" at parties (he did this a lot). Another seemingly always finds costumes that require tights when going to fancy dress parties - Robin Hood etc. 50% of my male friends pluck at least their uni-brow. I think many people crossdress, or do things considered reserved for the opposite sex. Either that or I just have a lot of feminine friends. :bs:

[Vanessa Sheridan]

Just in case some people aren't aware, we already have a Crossdresser's National Holiday: it's called Halloween. ;)

Vanessa

[DanaJ]

50% of my male friends pluck at least their uni-brow. :OMG!!!1!1 They have to be in the closet CDers! They pluck their eyebrows...

[Sharon]

I guess it would depend on how you define "crossdresser." To me, just plucking a unibrow doesn't a crossdresser make. Neither does it mean the person who wears pantyhose to control varicose veins, or the guy who slips on his wife's slippers to run out to the mailbox.

In my opinion, a crossdresser is someone who has a "need" to dress in the clothing of the opposite sex, whether that need is sexual or emotional.

In this light, I figure that true crossdressers total well less than 5% of the population, but this is just speculation.

[KateW]

OMG!!!1!1 They have to be in the closet CDers! They pluck their eyebrows...

I was just pointing out that a lot of men do things usually reserved for women (such as plucking their eyebrows). I know that this doesn't make you a crossdresser. However, as they are the same friends that wear skirts and tights, I stand by my post!

[Amanda420]

Its got to be more than 1 %! I mean, at points in my life, i would not even admit to myself that im a cder, and I know I dont resist the urge as well or long as others...I think those guys who are REALLY against any sort of crossdressing probly secretly lust after us, but just never will admit to themselves that they have "abnormal" desires. And they are way to macho, so the best way to convince everyone they know that they are "straight" is to loudly proclaim how much they "hate fags who dress like girls".

[TGMarla]

I think the number is at about 1-5%. But I think the number of "dabblers", those who experiment, but don't routinely crossdress, is a great deal higher, perhaps as high as 40-50%. No way does a guy go through his whole life without at least a little curiosity now and then. I consider myself a rather full-blown crossdresser, meaning that I have the wig, the undies, the clothes, the breasts, etc., that I use on a regular basis. But I don't have a web presence at all, save for here. I don't go out, I don't have a yahoo or an MSN site, or any site at all. I think most crossdressers who actually have the "full regalia" as I like to describe it, are a lot like me. They stay home and don't advertise much. So online figures are probably way out of whack. And I think that most men, when asked about it, may well lie about it, even on an anonymous poll. Accurate figures are probably nearly impossible to come by.

[HaleyPink2000]

Well, I know for a fact there are degrees of Cross dressing. My Wife hates that I CD, but says nothing of Her brother wearing His Wife's panties. Of coarse under the idea that all his undies are dirty and had to wear hers. Then His Wife says " You wear mine more than that"!

So I know two in my family. My Brother in Law and myself. Just diffrent degrees of it.

Haley:)

[Billijo49504]

Thank you..Bj

[Abby Lauren]

Sadly, I don't think anybody knows a figure that is reliably indicative of the incidence and prevalence of crossdressing. However, we do know that the 2 all-time favorite film comedies ever were about crossdressing- "Some Like It Hot" and "Tootsie". Similarly, many Broadway favorites also had crossdressing themes- "The Producers", "Hairspray", "La Cage Aux Folles", etc. That should tell us that there is something about crossdressing that is appealing to many people. Of course, that doesn't say they crossdress but it says something about its universality.

[insearchofme]

I'm not sure about world wide but if you do the math:
in the US if 5% of men CD, as some studies mention,
and there are 90 Million men in the US
then 5% x 90 million is 4.5 million CDs in the US

Now that's a lot of sisters!

[chantelle]

I hope to God there
is a lot then it means that i dont have to feel so alone.

[Deanna2]

The most common figure I've seen on the percentage of men who crossdress is five and that seems to the figure most people here agree on. However, no one in this post has defined crossdressing. CDing ranges from wearing panties and/or pantyhose all the way through to full on dressing up with wig, makeup, etc. I would suggest that there are many more pantyhose wearers than there are guys who wear dresses.

I have often thought when I'm in any sort of gathering, like a work meeting, where there are twenty guys or more, am I the only one there who wears dresses (or skirts in my case).

[natasha]

Sitting here playing with my earings and wondering how many myself............add another one lol

[Sierra Evon]

Well Aprilmae's count looks about right just add + 1 , that includes me
ya thier we go, thats got it now.............

[Sierra Evon]

Well, I know for a fact there are degrees of Cross dressing. My Wife hates that I CD, but says nothing of Her brother wearing His Wife's panties. Of coarse under the idea that all his undies are dirty and had to wear hers. Then His Wife says " You wear mine more than that"!

So I know two in my family. My Brother in Law and myself. Just diffrent degrees of it.

Haley:)
A thousand points of light , I'm single CD, yet alittle more on the visable
end of the light spectrum, yet not too much I can dial-up or down my look
Kudo"s you look great .

[kaylagurl]

It has been a while since I watched the movie but at the end of Just Like A Woman, I think that they estimated it as 1 in every 5 males dresses up en femme...can't remember for sure though.

[ronda]

i was told that crossdressing is about 1 in 5 men does some sort of cross dressing that would be about 20% this takes in those that only wear panties to the full fem dresser and trans sexual.

[Helen MC]

I have read in quite a few publications over the years that 1 in 7 men Crossdress to some extent, that is just over 14 1/2 %.

Now as the late Professor Joad would have said, "It all depends on what you mean by Crossdressing". Intent is the key in this question.

I knew of a lad when I was at School who was the only boy with five older sisters and who sometimes had to wear a pair of their knickers when he didn't have clean Y Fronts. He hated this but I greatly envied him and wished I was in his situation and that I could openly wear girls' knickers instead of having to borrow my big sister's and wear them in great secrecy. So to my mind he was NOT a Crossdresser. I would apply the same opinion to the guy who stays over at a girlfriend's house , needs a change of underwear and borrows a pair of her panties as he hasn't brought any clean underpants with him. If on the other hand he WANTS to wear her panties and ENJOYS doing so, and is turned on by so doing, then he is a CD.

There are also some men who out of curiosity try on some item of female clothing , most often panties, but this didn't do anything for them or they didn't like doing so and never indulged again. One male friend of mine who knows that I wear women's panties, (although not of my indoor fuller CD activities), and is quite at ease with my doing so, told me that when he was in his teens out of curiosity when alone in the house one day he did try on a pair of his sister's knickers and her bra and her skirt, but he didn't get anything from it and didn't do so again. I would not regard him as a CD or TV either.

Again the terms Crossdresser and Transvestite are wide ranging, from the man who only wears women's panties under his ordinary male trousers, through the likes of myself who does this 24/7 but also dresses en-femme from time to time at home but never goes out dressed as a women, to the fully practicing Transvestite who often goes out with makeup, wig, bra and falsies, and fully clothed and acting as closely as he can to a biological woman. Then there is the man who lives his life as much as possible as a woman although he may not wish to have sex change surgery, is HE a Crossdresser?

My own thoughts are that there are about 5% of men in the UK who could be called genuine Crossdressers. This of course is hard to quantify as even in this so-called enlightened and liberal society any man openly admitting to wearing women's clothing whether only panties or the full monty is liable to mockery and even abuse, and in some red-neck areas, or repressive cultures they would be even less likely to admit to being a CD.