Hsu Kevin J, Morandini James S, Rudd S
Department of Psychological and Social Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 1600 Woodland Road, Abington, PA, 19001, USA.
School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Arch Sex Behav. 2025 Jan 22. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-03053-7.
Autogynephilia is a natal male's propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought or fantasy of being a woman. Both male cross-dressers and transfeminine individuals (a broad range of individuals born male with a feminine gender identity; e.g., trans women) have been shown to be motivated or characterized by autogynephilia. Although there is a lack of research on whether other potentially related aspects of sexuality are comparable between them, the conceptual framework of autogynephilia offers several predictions that can be tested empirically. Following these predictions, the present study examined whether 10 diverse aspects of sexuality differed between 519 male cross-dressers and 288 transfeminine individuals recruited from online communities, as well as between both groups and 293 cisgender men and 301 cisgender women recruited as control groups. The overwhelming majority of male cross-dresser and transfeminine participants identified as heterosexual, bisexual, asexual, or pansexual. Compared with transfeminine participants, male cross-dressers reported more core and general autogynephilia, paraphilic interests, sociosexual orientation, sexual compulsivity, and problematic pornography use, but less bisexual attraction. Compared with cisgender men and women, male cross-dressers and transfeminine participants as a combined sample reported more bisexual attraction, sexual orientation ambiguity, core and general autogynephilia, paraphilic interests, analloeroticism, sexual compulsivity, and problematic pornography use, but less perceived desirability as a partner. Differences were larger comparing male cross-dressers and transfeminine participants with either control group than with each other. Results suggest that while autogynephilia is especially important to the sexuality of male cross-dressers, it also figures importantly in the sexuality of transfeminine individuals, even if it is expressed and organized differently.
自淫症是指出生时为男性的人，会因幻想自己成为女性而产生性唤起。男性异装癖者和跨性别女性（出生时为男性且具有女性性别认同的广泛群体，例如跨性别女性）都被证明受到自淫症的驱使或具有自淫症特征。尽管对于他们之间其他潜在相关的性取向方面是否具有可比性缺乏研究，但自淫症的概念框架提供了一些可以通过实证检验的预测。遵循这些预测，本研究调查了从在线社区招募的519名男性异装癖者和288名跨性别女性，以及作为对照组招募的293名顺性别男性和301名顺性别女性在10个性取向不同方面是否存在差异。绝大多数男性异装癖者和跨性别女性参与者将自己认定为异性恋、双性恋、无性恋或泛性恋。与跨性别女性参与者相比，男性异装癖者报告的核心和一般自淫症、恋物癖兴趣、社会性行为取向、性强迫以及问题性色情内容使用更多，但双性恋吸引力更少。与顺性别男性和女性相比，作为一个合并样本的男性异装癖者和跨性别女性参与者报告的双性恋吸引力、性取向模糊性、核心和一般自淫症、恋物癖兴趣、肛门性欲、性强迫以及问题性色情内容使用更多，但作为伴侣的感知吸引力更少。男性异装癖者和跨性别女性参与者与任何一个对照组之间的差异都比他们彼此之间的差异更大。结果表明，虽然自淫症对男性异装癖者的性取向尤为重要，但它在跨性别女性的性取向中也很重要，即使其表现和组织方式有所不同。
