The word autogynephilia is considered perjorative by most...
There is alot of politics around gender pyschology and Dr Blanchard is a part of it...
To put it bluntly..
Jerking off to yourself while dressed or images of yourself or eyes closed fantasies of yourself dressed or female is very common among transfolk...but so is jerking off to just about anything!!! theproblem comes in relationships when it overwhelms everything else, and many can't perform sexually unless they are imagining themselves as women...
so how do you describe this? i'm not a doctor..is it deviant behaviour that must be put in a box?? that must be cured? that should preclude a transition to a female role (ie you have a sexual issue, not an identity issue)
On the other hand, if i was your wife and you were not making love to me because you did this all day, then i would want to know how to deal with it...
one big problem with autogynephilia in particular is that the concept was not developed with any scientific rigor, the work was done in a very small sample set, and it attempts to put us all into a very limited set of labels as describd in previous posts...i can say for a fact that I dont fit in either of those categories...so i have to dismiss the whole thing, how can it possibly be true?...i find the whole theory to be incredibly slipshod and lazy
so generally speaking, trans people do not like the word despite the fact that on the surface it describes behaviour that we all know about...
