Question about changing into a real woman

[Taylor186]

I also posted in the other thread that I thought many of the answers were rooted in fantasy, but internally I wondered if they weren't serious wishes.

I calculated that 42% (60 posters) gave an unqualified yes. I wonder, if they were really serious, why they're not actively transitioning? My experience on other transition focused forums is that those who seriously desire transition make it happen, no matter the cost or pain.

I don't want to target anyone, but these are just the first few things I read that indicated that some respondents would want to be sexually attractive rather than just nice-looking:

"Can I specify proportions?"
"would love for my body to feel the urges of a women, and be able to also feel the urges of a man"
"I'd love being Beyoncé, but Angela Merkel? No thanks!"
"Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes"
"Or maybe turn into a really good looking and built nice *******"
"only if I were young and beautiful"
"as long as I can pick my body and looks"

Well, we see those quotes differently. I see one, or maybe two, of those quotes as sexually related. The others not so much.

I think that if you asked 1000 non-crossdressing males if they would change into a woman you would get a few to say yes with the same kind of qualifications. Actually I also think if you asked women what they would change about themselves you would get a lot of similar body related answers. It's a product of the culture we've been brought up in.

I've also read in this forum, time and time again, that having a nice body (men, not women, tend to be attracted to nice bodies) is important

Can't agree that this is men only. I know plenty of women who go gaga over 6-pack abs.

and over time, many members have said (and they also have dressed like) they want to be sexy. You can see this in the choice of clothing, the poses, etc.

Absolutely. There is a spoken or unspoken fetish component to many a crosdresser's clothing choices.

The explanation in this thread that many CDers emulate the ideal that their male selves are attracted to makes sense to me,

Speaking for myself, I consider that I have the perfect wife for who I am. But, to her credit, she looks and dresses nothing like I do when I crossdress.

though I still need to read through Jenni's post to digest why it is important to be attractive to themselves more than to their hetero GG partners.

Yes, I found both of Jenni's quotes very insightful, at least for how crossdressing affects me.