ReineD
to preface my later point:
Some may say that their CDing lets them feel more sensitive feminine emotions, like loving, caring and empathy. They also may believe it gives them more feminine behaviors and traits. They may in fact have these but there are plenty of men out their who display such attribute as well who would never think of dressing en femme. But Cross-dressing itself can come on its own and does not have to be part of that combo meal. Cross-dressing on its own is all about adopting look and clothes of the opposite sex and nothing more.
Cross-dressing is all about being or rather looking like some fantasy woman. It has no basis in reality. A woman's ordinary life is not what is desired. School, work, kids, and other responsibilities are apart of male lives because it is part of human lives. When you subtract these common denominators all you have left are the superficial things about being a woman; clothes, makeup, feminine body shape, etc... And at core we are men, heterosexual men for the most part, and I would say that the gay and bi CDers still have the basic male software running inside them aswell. I believe we want to look like attractive woman not to attract men but to attract ourselves. I don't know why this is. My guess it might be on some subconscious level to take the power female attractiveness has over us. Perhaps some crossed neurons reflects what we find attractive in women back into our self image. Who knows?
But I do know this it is all about fantasy. And fantasies all about the fun, happy, pretty, sexy aspects of something not the dreary, normal, obligatory, parts. :D
