Do you think most guys growing up got curious and tried on Girls/women's Clothes ?

[Robbiegirl]

I know of lots of guys who ended up in Girls clothes and I often wonder how it affected them ? Did they just get a good laugh or like many of us did they get hooked ? Of course I don't know how many tried things on on their own ?

At around 9 a friend of mine and I dared each other to put on my sisters ballet tutu and slippers. We were dancing around in them till we were caught by our laughing baby sitter ! Did my friend ever wear girls things again for fun ?

For losing at the card game pig in Junior high, 2 of the boys in my neighborhood had to run around the block in my sisters cute tennis dresses with ruffle butt panties on over there briefs. Did wearing the cute outfits and embarrassment have any long term affect ?

At my all boys boarding school boys had to play the girls parts and ended up dressed by our male teachers wifes in full ladies gear ! Panty girdles, bras, slips, stocking, LOL the works. They became very good at walking in heels ! This had to have some affect on them don't you think ?

Your thoughts and stories, please

[Patience]

I'd say it's a certainty, even though most won’t admit it.

For the ones to whom the experience didn’t mean anything, life went on.

For the others, well, here we are.

[Teresa]

Robbie,
Something drove me inside which I didn't understand at the age of 8-9 years . It wasn't out of curiosity or for a laugh , no one else was present or had any influence . Looking back I realise now how powerful that force was , that underlying female trait finally took control . I fought that gut feeling for most of my life from that age, it lead me a rollercoaster ride and I've battled with labels both in my own mind and here on the forum , now I'm at peace with it .

[Mickitv]

I agree that many men may have experimented in dressing but in the past dressing was often used as a joke on TV and in the movies. Therefore, no one would ever tell anyone. I received such as rush from wearing feminine clothes that I overlooked and looked past the jokes. It was always and still is more important for me to feel good about me.

[Stephanie47]

I really do not buy into the premise that wearing girls' clothing under your brief list has anything to do with a boy's future cross dressing. Doing something on a dare, losing a bet or presenting as a girl in a play is just a singular act. What about the guy who struts down the street in heels on the fund raising "Walk in Her Shoes" day? All I can envision is the male is secure in his sexuality as a male and is just having fun. Why I say that is back in my youth for a man to wear women's clothing was to label him as a homosexual. I'm sure there were many many young boys who just would not "do it" for fear of being labeled. Others, "what the heck. That sound like fun." I sure that is what goes through the skulls of boys where there still are dress up as a girl day.

My first foray as a little kid was to try on my mother's slip which she always hanged on a clothesline in our apartment. I loved the feel of the nylon. In the 1950's sex as we know it in the media now did not exist then. I was never dressed as a girl. I had no sisters then. Or female cousins. It was a plain asexual lure of the fabric. I did take a slip off the clothesline, as well as a nylon nightgown, and try it on for the feel. I had no thoughts of being a girl. It wasn't until puberty and the rise of hormones that my interests in women's clothing expanded. Why I decided to try on her bra and panty with the slip and pull on a girdle and stockings I have no idea. I suspect I was programmed in my dna to explore this side of me. The trouble with being a cross dressing young boy back in the 1960's was to be branded a homosexual which at that time was not a good thing. A very confusing time.

I did break away from donning my mother's clothing. Was it because my physical size made it impossible to squeeze into her clothes? I don't know. I do know there were many years when I had zero thoughts of wearing women's clothing. Those were periods of time when male dna would have been rising to meet societal expectations. I would love to see the results of a study of men whose cross dressing urges were interrupted by certain events.

[Micki_Finn]

Lots of children explore playing “dress up” before they understand the gender implications of clothing. I wouldn’t put that in the “crossdressing” category. No, I do not think that “most” guys have experimented wearing women’s clothing. No not all men are secretly crossdressers.

[Robbiegirl]

I also wonder about boys who were used as Dress dummies by their mothers who were often sewing dresses for their girl cousins.

Dresses are one thing but do you think any boy can come back from being put into silky girls panties, especially ones with ruffles on the butt ? I mean its so different from rough boy underwear that it has to leave a lasting memory ?

[Patience]

“Back” from what?

Whatever it is, I think it really comes down to the individual and the unique things that might be happening in that person's life. I'm not sure that question can be answered one way or another.

And your question is getting very specific. Might you at one point have worn said garment?

[ellbee]

If you want to quantify "most" as more than 50%, then no, I don't believe most guys have worn some kind of female clothing/make-up/shoes/whatever when they were young.

And for those that did, many probably didn't do it out of genuine curiosity or "allure," but instead just to goof around, or on a dare, or lost a bet, etc.

Of those who were physically capable of getting sexually aroused at the time, and did, I'd say the greater likelihood that they may have gone down the CD'ing road. Though still not all of *those*.


But I believe even many of those who did tinker around with dressing in female stuff when they were young (for whatever reason), they have not done so into adulthood. It was a short-lived thing, maybe once or twice.

Or, if more, then it likely turned out to be a temporary phase. I mean, typical kids enjoy doing certain things for a while, and/or had various interests... But how much of that actually continues on throughout the years & decades? For example, I used to ride my bike a lot when I was young -- but I stopped doing it around a certain age. However, I used to be friends with a kid who eventually got into more "extreme" biking as he got older, well after I had stopped. A few years ago I stumble upon him on Facebook... Lo & behold, he still does mountain biking, and actually works as a designer/engineer of mountain bikes. As for me? I haven't hopped on a bicycle in a very loooong time. :heehee: And I'd bet the same holds true for many I grew up with.


Get what I'm saying? We grow out of a *lot* of things as we age & experience more of the world. It's only a select few that continue down that road, going deeper & deeper into whatever rabbit hole it may be.

That's also one of the reasons why I'm not so gung-ho about teaching our youth (particularly prepubescent ones) about transgenderism, and especially steering/grooming them towards that if they talk about and/or show some interest in things of opposite-sex nature. For those who truly *are* TS, that works fine. But for the others who *aren't*? You're playing with fire, IMO. Let kids just be kids, already... Please don't rob them of that. :)

[Rhonda Jean]

The only boys I ever saw wearing girls clothes besides me were in a womanless pageant we had in high school every year. Some comical, some more serious. The best I ever saw was a kid whose mom took us to school some mornings. The morning of the pageant he was STUNNING. His mom had done his own long hair and makeup and he wore his sister's clothes. Unbelievable. I didn't see him after high school for 30 years. Although you can never be sure (see the boy/girl sticky), he showed no sign of having once made a fabulous looking girl.

[docrobbysherry]

#1: Trying on clothes doesn't turn u gay or trans.:heehee:

#2: Men don't think about wearing women's things. Just getting women out of them!:D

I didn't start dressing until age 50. I had no gender issues growing up. With girl friends and a wife I had plenty of chances to try on their things. But, it NEVER OCCURRED TO ME to do that!:eek:

My ex and I switched roles for a big Halloween party in my early 40's. It made such an impression on me I forgot about that nite until I had been dressing for 10 years! Some 15+ years afterwards!:straightface:

[sometimes_miss]

I wonder if most would admit it even if they did. Before I was molested and became a crossdresser (this was before school age) I did try my mom and dad's shoes on and shuffled around the room a bit. And I put my sister's clothes on in an effort to get mom to pay more attention to me when she was getting my sister all prettied up to go to school when I was 4 (it always seemed like mom took a long time to get my sister's hair done just right. I realize now that it probably wasn't that long, but maybe it was the fact that when she was doing it, she would just tell me to go away, as if I were just a pest or something). Then of course while walking to school, sis walked besides my mom and I walked a couple of steps behind, so that probably added to my desire to dress up like my sister and go to school, too. Mom only walked me to school the year I was in kindergarten; after that, I was expected to go with my sister, who also made me walk behind her and her friends because she didn't want to be associated with me.

[Michelle1955]

Not a sexual thing when I started I was very young, It was in my brain. I wanted to be a girl and dreamed of being a girl. I looked forward to the Sears And JCP catalogs at 3-4 years old first went to bras, panties, hose, then little girls cloths. Did that for all my youth and young adult life. First pair of panties worn was 5-6 years of age, when my neighbor playmate and I switched underwear and panties in her bedroom. Then changed back when we heard some noise her mom was making in the other room. Purchased my first bra, foam forms, shaper from Sears catalog while in College which you had to pickup in person at the store. Proportions to that purchase my cloths was second hand cloths. That was about 58 years ago.

[Steph_CD_62]

I would bet the majority of boys did try on some article of women's clothing when growing up, or even after they got older but most will never admit to it.

But those that try on women's clothing there is a small percentage (crossdressers) that continue doing the rest of their lives.

I remember as a kid probably around 5 or 6 looking at the Christmas catalogs at my grandparent's house before school, and if no one was around I would turn to the lingerie section out of curiosity.

[valerie anne]

I wanted to have feminine breasts from an early age, and I wanted to breast feed. I often wore my mums' bras with clumsy padding, and applied her makeup.

I once seduced a friend to indulge me. I applied bright red lipsitck, and asked him to kiss me and suck my nipples. I coated my nipples in ice cream and he sucked me hard for a few minutes. I was in heaven!

I have never lost the desire to breast feed and to lactate. I'm using mechanical means now, I think a new lover would be too demanding.

[Micki_Finn]

No offense Valerie, but that’s pushing my boundaries of TMI.

[valerie anne]

That's my story, I told it as it is.

[Robbiegirl]

So I guess part of my question was did you ever do any dare type stuff with one of your buddies and do you wonder if they got hooked like you did ?

[Beverley Sims]

I think it would have started some latent thoughts among the boys probably ten percent would have got interested that way.

[GaleWarning]

I also attended an all-boys school where we had to play female parts in plays. It was in one of these that I first wore a bra. But that was not what made me interested in crossdressing.
A few years later a friend of mine (big fella!) was the manager of a group of cheerleaders and one evening several of us tried on the uniforms.
Many years later I was teaching at a co-educational high school and several members of the first rugby team tried on the girls' uniforms, including underwear. Both the boys and the girls thought it hilarious!

So, to answer the question: I do think that more males have tried on female clothing than will be prepared to admit it. And no, I don't think that these experiences are necessarily the ones that lead to a proclivity to crossdress.

[Lacey New]

I tried on my mothers and sisters panties when I was a young teenager and I found it terribly exciting. Of course, I did what you would expect and it felt so good that I did it again and again. Eventually, I figured that if panties were exciting, maybe trying a bra would be exciting too. Well, it was and eventually so was the rest of women’s wear.

[Danielle_cder]

Well for me this is true, that damn pantyhose.

I was always curious all the snaps, hooks, adjustable straps, the hug, the hold, the feel, the look yea women’s clothes....I’m still hooked.

I’m pretty sure I’m a minority, I’m sure there are plenty of young men/boys who have tried things on but never committed/perused it.

[Robbiegirl]

I also attended an all-boys school where we had to play female parts in plays. It was in one of these that I first wore a bra. But that was not what made me interested in crossdressing.
A few years later a friend of mine (big fella!) was the manager of a group of cheerleaders and one evening several of us tried on the uniforms.
Many years later I was teaching at a co-educational high school and several members of the first rugby team tried on the girls' uniforms, including underwear. Both the boys and the girls thought it hilarious!

So, to answer the question: I do think that more males have tried on female clothing than will be prepared to admit it. And no, I don't think that these experiences are necessarily the ones that lead to a proclivity to crossdress.

GaleWarning, just to be clear on your story, the first time "several of you tried on their Cheer leading uniforms " Did you also show the girls or just dance around in them ? Also those uniforms much have more stretch than I thought, about what year was that
And the second time when you say even the underwear was worn do you mean the "show Panties " that came with the skirts ? LOL Curious ?

[GaleWarning]

1. In a university residence, no females around. Four of us tried on the uniforms. We had been drinking.
2. High school end of year party. 1st fifteen jocks decided to don bras etc. There female peers enjoyed the spectacle. Teachers were amused. I ,of course, had a different take on it, which I kept to myself.

[KymG]

I imagine a lot of guys try it for a laugh, but i dont think that would lead to crossdressing, i think its part of us from the beginning.
Dna, genes, something like that.

[docrobbysherry]

That's my story, I told it as it is.

Valerie, u have a fetish related to your dressing. And, if you'll notice the number of threads about bras and panties here?
You'll discover most T's here have one or more fetishes, too!:heehee:

[RainbowDash]

Never gave it much thought when I was growing up, but then I slowly started to think about it. It began with female video game characters (I've always thought how great it'd be to actually be a girl who could fight and kick butt) such as Chun-Li from Street Fighter, Seung Mina from Soul Edge, and then my favorite, Princess Peach from Super Mario Brothers. I thought to myself, what would it be like to dress up and wear all those beautiful clothes and beat up bad guys? I imagined myself wearing what they wore, and just thinking about it made me feel pretty good. For the record, I chose mostly female fighters and warriors in video games.
This thought was only a thought, until I had a dream that I was Princess Peach in the Super Smash Brothers video game. After that, I began to wonder what it was like to be a princess and wear beautiful gowns and stuff. So I ordered a Princess Peach custom made cosplay outfit all the way from China, then ordered another one a couple of years later.
When I worked at the movie theatre and Sex and the city 2 came out, for some strange reason I began wondering about what it would be like to dress up like them (I never saw the movie) and wear women's clothes. From there, I began to wonder about panties, high heels, and basically everything else that they wear. Every time I was about to try on something women wear that I never wore before, I was excited just thinking about receiving the item in the mail so I could wear it. Each and every single time I wore something, I was never disappointed. As a matter of fact, I found myself wondering why I never tried this stuff on earlier in life, and why I never gave it a chance before. Probably because even though I dressed up as Princess Peach, I didn't really consider myself as someone who wanted to wear women's clothes. Even though I was fantasizing about being a princess, I was still in denial about actually wanting to wear real women's clothes. So glad I followed my instincts and took that big step forward! My life has changed for the better!

[valerie anne]

Valerie, u have a fetish related to your dressing. And, if you'll notice the number of threads about bras and panties here?
You'll discover most T's here have one or more fetishes, too!:heehee:

A fetish? I just want functional mammary glands.

[Gillian Gigs]

There is a big difference between curiosity and imprinting on the brain. The imprinting can be for several reasons, I think in some cases curiosity can lead toward imprinting. Those who were just curious stopped long ago, but I think that those who experienced imprinting continued. I don't see that we will ever get to all the why's, as there are just too many of them to count.

This is a common obsession with us CD'ers as to why we do it. Many may never totally know. If it is really important, then keep searching. I know my reasons, and it didn't change the fact that I still dress and probably will never stop.

[michelleg]

Curiosity may have been the reason I first tried them on, or maybe there was a part of me that wanted to be a girl or at the very least to feel and look like one. I know that once I took the first step of putting on a slip and how wonderful it felt I couldn't wait to wear everything else and I dressed every opportunity that I had. Having the house to myself and spending the afternoon as a girl was wonderful and I still love the times I have now to just be a girl and enjoy it.

[Becky Blue]

If a guy was playing dressups and at some stage put on a dress, it would mean as little to him as if he put on an elephant suit. We are the way we are because of something inside us not because we tried in a dress. many people dress up for fun in many outfits, superheroes, animals etc etc... you don't see people growing up wanting to be an elephant or batman do you?

[Confucius]

I think most guys growing up did wear some girls clothes. I know there was plenty of opportunity in the schools I attended, including holding womanless beauty pageants, dressing in drag for pep rally skits, or just as a dare, or to be funny, etc.. However when I saw classmates in drag I always knew it was different for them. They could be cool, funny and confident. In those days whenever I crossdressed I would get nervously aroused. My whole body would be shaking, and I thought I was going to explode.

For most guys they can crossdress and feel next to nothing. Wearing a dress doesn't magically transform anyone into a crossdresser. What makes a person a crossdresser has to do with how our brains are hardwired. I believe that when we crossdress our brain's neural pathways release a host of feel good neurotransmitters. That makes us special.

[Judy-Somthing]

When in my mid teens myself and up to four friends would dress up and go out for walks.
Some other friends would tag along and on occasion some of the neighborhood girls would help us with our makeup.
As we got older and got jobs the CDing get-to-gathers stopped.

I did dress at a few Halloween parties but never seen other friends dress again.
I don't know i any of them continued.

[Janet Murray]

it started with a fascination, attraction to pantyhose, and grew from there. It was always wanting to feel what a woman felt in her clothing in various situations....

[Robbiegirl]

Well I guess this means these two guys don't crossdress ! Maybe they got to wear so much fun stuff that they burned out on it ? Lucky guys can you imagine how many dresses they probably tried on each time to find the perfect ones. Also how many times they got to endure dress fittings to make sure their slips didn't show
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[TracyT]

My belief: 90% of men at some point in their childhood entertain thoughts of crossdressing. Of those , 90% dismiss the thought. Of the remaining 10%, 90% do it once, find it oddly exciting, and never do it again. That leaves us confirmed crossdressers. I also think that the number of occasional or wishful crossdressers is way bigger than anyone admits or realizes.

[Jenny22]

This is the title of the post: "Do you think most guys growing up got curious and tried on Girls/women's Clothes ?" Now we all know that 97.3% of all statistics are made up, but I'd bet that out of curiosity 100% of young boys who were exposed to a female's lingerie tried on a 'pretty' at least once. I may be wrong. It may be only 98.2%.

[Crissy 107]

I’m sure the % is higher then one would think. I think almost all of us started young and I can still remember those wonderful days.

[Leslie Mary S]

Well I guess this means these two guys don't crossdress ! Maybe they got to wear so much fun stuff that they burned out on it ? Lucky guys can you imagine how many dresses they probably tried on each time to find the perfect ones. Also how many times they got to endure dress fittings to make sure their slips didn't show
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Bet they were custom fitted by "wardrobe"

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The original question was
Do you think most guys growing up got curious and tried on Girls/women's Clothes ?
From what I have just read I will say yes I do think that way. Unlike most kids, I did not belong to any groups/gangs. Even in first grade, I had just one friend, Since I never belong to any group, I never got to know what their thoughts were. I was always an outsider and the class nerd/Geek/ weirdo. You try growing up with no friends around you like I did. I would guess that I NEVER had more than one friend at a time. I was also the class midget.
Wearing my sister (class popularity queen) and mom's clothing was never to be, because their clothes just fell off of me. I was still wearing slacks in the 4th grade that were bought for me in the first grade. My parents never bought me blue jeans, always Kakies (tans).
Look out for my Jr year in High school, I went from 4' 2" to 6' tali by the time I finished SR year. That two year growth spurt literally hurt. I had to ask a Sophomore to go to the prom with me.
But I still think most males have tried on female clothing at least once before puberty. They most likely will deny it, less they loses their standing in their social group.
It is that strong male social grouping that makes it hard to get acceptance as a MIAD/etc. wear anything feminine and you are an outcast, you are "Gay" or a freak.

[Patti Remick]

Do you think most guys growing up got curious and tried on Girls/women's Clothes ?


As a lifelong crossdresser with everything I know and have learned about crossdressers and crossdressing my answer is emphatically NO. I doubt more that 20 percent of all males ever have ever worn any 'female' clothes for curiousity of any other reason.

Luv and hugs
Patti

[LovingThePanties]

Robbie,
Something drove me inside which I didn't understand at the age of 8-9 years . It wasn't out of curiosity or for a laugh , no one else was present or had any influence . Looking back I realise now how powerful that force was , that underlying female trait finally took control.

I think that this is the distinction. I don't know what percentage of young boys try on female clothes, but the ones that will probably wear them later in life are the ones that were drawn to it w/out exogenous influence. For example, the boy who lost and, as a result bet and had to wear a dress for a day probably isn't still wearing dresses. The boy that always lusted after his sister's clothes and tried immediately tried them on whenever he had the house to himself probably is still wearing women's clothes.

[Robbiegirl]

Well I don't know how many of these Boys joined our team but I will say they got the full Doll up experience ! Not sure if cute panties were part of the outfit ?
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[LovingThePanties]

Well I don't know how many of these Boys joined our team but I will say they got the full Doll up experience ! Not sure if cute panties were part of the outfit ?
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It wouldn't be the full doll-up experience w/out them :daydreaming:

[DaisyLawrence]

A fetish? I just want functional mammary glands.

And that is absolutely by definition a fetish. Don't worry many here have a fetish or fetishes although, for some reason, many do not admit it.

[Melissa in SE Tn]

Curious? By human nature, that thought must have raced across the minds of all men.

Tried on ? It would be a blessing if men would be honest and admit that we were all born with a dual imprinted gender soul. That being the case, the need to express that feminine imprint has to be expressed. I truly believe that there is a vast army of men who crossdress and that doing so is actually a recognition of our feminine soul. I for one relish the feminine portion of my soul.

[Terri_Cross]

I've thought about this on occasion. There was a friend of mine, during the latter elementary school years, that would talk with me about wearing bras and panties and sometimes dresses. About growing breasts and getting all dressed up and looking pretty. And about how good it would feel to look like a woman. And even more about how good it would feel to wear a bra and panty wherever, and whenever we wanted. Sometimes we would even sneak a Sears or Penny's catalog up to his room and look through the women's and girl's lingerie and clothing sections talking about it.

It was such a naive and innocent fantasy at the time.

Well, here I am, wearing the bra, lightly lined underwire, and panty, boyshort, under my sweats waiting on a package to be delivered, so I can change into my new yoga pants afterwards. Not sure if he ever continued the journey or not, since we moved out of state shortly after that. I was always kind of curious though.

[LelaK]

Imagining the men I know being asked to try on a pretty dress, or to get dolled up, it seems like it would take a helluva lot of persuading to get nearly any of them to try it. That applies even to some cousins who have/had feminine behaviors. Then again, all of the boys in a competing 4H group did dress as girls for a play, so maybe I need to revise my impression. However, maybe boys are willing to do it before they reach the teenage years, if all the other boys are doing it too, and if it's supposed to be funny. My 4H group was putting on a funny play too that same year. It was about a country wedding. My sister played the Groom and I volunteered to play the Maid of Honor. The following year I thought up a play myself in which I played a girl walking past a handsome man sitting on a park bench. I dropped my hanky as I was walking by. Unfortunately, my brother, playing a bum, picked up the hanky instead of the handsome fellow doing so, and the bum blew his nose with it.

I was about 4 when I asked Mother if I could be a woman like her when I grew up. I wanted to be like her, not like my Dad who had a bad temper. I wanted to be pretty too, like when I was younger. Mother put scarves on me and my brother when we went outdoors in cold weather when we were one or two years old. I think I remembered the nice feeling wearing scarves. I had younger sisters too, but I wasn't interested in being like them, but I didn't want to be like guys either, even less. So I guess the feeling of scarves and thinking I was pretty had a lot to do with my desire to crossdress or even dream of becoming a woman.

[Julie Gaum]

Information taken from the experiences of many hundreds: Percentage of males who have tried on female clothes is unknown but numbers in the millions. Various theories (and truths) on those who become "hooked" is about 5%. While most become CDs to greater or lesser degree by their teens there are some who do not react until midlife.
DNA, genes (XXs and Ys chromosomes), wiring prior to birth and even chemical unbalance are set before five years of age. Of these roughly 80% are heterosexual, 15% are Bi and about 5% are homosexual.
Much more on this topic found in Myths, Fallacies and Most Therapists Without a Clue. By the way we are talking about TGs and not TSs.
Julie is back after completing 78th and final Blog

[Emily Occasionally]

Feminine things have always given me a rush. Ever since I was very young. Too young to understand what it meant. And I didn't understand what it actually meant until last year. Anytime I had the opportunity to enter the feminine world (like one time when a girl said she wanted to give me a makeover) would be met with a firm "No." I couldn't let people know I enjoyed feminine things. That I wanted to get my nails painted or wear pretty dresses and skirts. I didn't really come to terms with all of it until last year. I built up all these walls to make sure that no one would ever find out. Basically most of my life has been the strategy Unikitty from the Lego Movie has for not happy ideas, push thoughts of femininity and liking feminine things deep deep deep down where you'll never ever ever find them. Take my feelings out every once in a while or read a story online or something but I thought my life would be over if anyone found out. I was just so afraid.

I honestly don't know about other people...I didn't know anyone who dressed, with one exception that I can think of but it was part of an obstacle course and it was just putting on a nightgown (which is part of why I spent so much of my life panicking about my desire to dress I suppose), even on a lark (although I just thought of something while writing this where a guy had eyeshadow put on him and I remember being jealous...more memories will probably surface). I only started dressing in part because I accidentally bought a women's shirt instead of a man's shirt at a concert and just liked the shirt so I shrugged it off. Then last year (over 5 years after buying that shirt and wearing it fairly regularly) I bought my first dress and the rest is history. I can't speak to other people's experiences but I spent most of my life trying to convince everyone I didn't like feminine things. I don't know where the urge came from...I just know I don't think I've ever been without it and maybe it will always be there. Keeping myself suppressed and beating up on myself with shame, hurt me psychologically in ways I'm only beginning to unravel. Now I'd tell my young self to go for the opportunities of feminine happenings. Don't try to keep it down. Don't hurt yourself.

Like I said I don't know anyone else with these feelings (present company excepted of course). But maybe I did meet someone along the way with these feelings too. Isn't that just so...human. To meet someone with the same thoughts and shame and maybe you could help each other even if it's just to talk...but those feelings of shame keep you silent.

[Roxanne Lanyon]

I did, but now, I simply adore girlie things so much!
Roxanne

[MiniRock]

Personally, I think the majority of thoughtful heterosexual men would like cross-dressing if they tried it. Especially if they looked better in women's stuff than in their normal clobber.

[Leslie Mary S]

Personally, I think the majority of thoughtful heterosexual men would like cross-dressing if they tried it. Especially if they looked better in women's stuff than in their normal clobber.

That is probably true but getting them to do it and not worry about what the guys in his group would say.The real trick is to get the whole group to do it together and not 'just for a few min or hours, no they would have to do it for a whole week. Like them losing a bet about their favorite sport team win or losing.

[Charlotte7]

Do you think most guys growing up got curious and tried on Girls/women's Clothes ?

No, I don't think so at all.

[Leslie Mary S]

I personally think you are wrong. Why? because most men are fearful to admit that they tried them on at any age because of what the macho crown would do to them. Even thought many of them had also tried on some attire. Once you break the ban on talking about in the small group you will find out the truth. Then we start with the "one ups-man-ship" contest. "I did it better than you did" followed with what they did.

[LovingThePanties]

I think that Leslie is right. Whatever the polling numbers show, you can probably tack on at least an extra 15% because so many guys will never admit it.

[Charlotte7]

Personally, I think the majority of thoughtful heterosexual men would like cross-dressing if they tried it. Especially if they looked better in women's stuff than in their normal clobber.

I'm not picking on MiniRock here, I'm just using this as an example, but, to me, this thread is just another of those that pop up here that are all about how we'd like the world to be, not how it really is.

If most men cross dressed and most men would like it, then there'd be a lot more than 1% of the population, which seems to be the generally accepted figure of the population as a whole, who do it.

Apart from anything else, to me, the question posed by the op is defeated by the maths.

[DaisyLawrence]

Inded Charlotte you are correct, men are pretty good at figuring out what they enjoy and then doing it as much as possible. The question posed by the OP can't be answered, it can only be guessed at which is a pretty pointless exercise if you ask me. All the answers are guesses and all no doubt essentially wrong. :sad: