I can't presume to speak for members of this community, but addiction to porn (soft-core, hard-core, internet or otherwise etc.) seems to be very prevalent among the rest of the "normal" male population. And like our crossdressing, it is often pursued in a furtive, clandestine manner, as the perpetrators realize that their wives or SO's would not be overly thrilled if they knew what they were up to in their spare time. And, like us, they often get "busted" in due course because they didn't always cover their tracks sufficiently.

And yet - once caught, porn addicts don't seem to attract the same extreme degree of negativity towards their predilection the way we do over our crossdressing...kind of a "boys will be boys" resigned reaction after the excrement has hit the ventilator, followed by the inevitable cooling down of emotions. Why don't we crossdressers often get this same level of understanding and acceptance after we have been "outed", and are often banished to the purgatory known as DADT instead?

The usual rationale given for this negative reaction by GG's is is that many women see our crossdressing as an affront to their femininity and visual evidence that leads to feelings of inadequacy and being less sexy or physically attractive to us than they would like to be. Never mind that we were born this way, and that crossdressing has nothing to do with either sex or gender or physical attraction...it is just how we are wired, always have been, and always will be.

All that said, cannot the very same criticisms be directed towards a porn addiction as well despite the fact that the "addicts" often get more of a "free pass" for their particular compulsion than we do? Is it the fact that it is simply more common and therefore more "mainstream", and by default - more acceptable? Is it because it might be considered a more "manly" activity despite the more unsavoury aspects of it? A combination of the two? Clearly, pure logic has little to do with this apparent contradiction.

Thoughts, anyone?