After a few (non-offensive, to my standards) reactions of: "Haha, that's funny", one poster writes: "He's gay". Next poster: "I *hope* this is photoshopped. I thought policemen were so attractive... never thought they could be gay".
Now, I might have over-reacted to a post that was merely meant to be funny, but this happens to be one of my pet peeves (since I happen to be not only the significant other of a keen panty- wearer
but also a sociologist... so professional deformation, I guess). So I write: as a matter of fact, most crossdressers are straight. According to the studies I've seen/what I've read about the issue, the percent of gay crossdressers is not bigger than the percent of gays in the population (actually, it seems it's even a bit smaller-not significantly, but there are more people who identify as bisexual than in the population, so it kind of evens out and the percents don't vary too significantly anyway). See also this link:http://www.yvonnesplace.net/survey/surv ... uality.htm So, in layman's terms, you can't guess the guy's sexual orientation based on the fact that he wears female panties better than you could, let's say, based on the fact that he is a cop . Now, I might have used a bit of specialized language, but do you honestly believe my explanation was hard to follow/read?
OK, nex poster: Maybe he lost a bet. Or he's gay. Or in his country they sell that in the Men's underwear area. Otherwise, I can't understand why he would do that
I write back: Or maybe men's underpants are just sooo uninteresting
Jokes aside, if you're interested:there can be many explanations. Psychoanalysts believe that crossdressing is attractive to some men because it is a social taboo, so it is kind of aa fetish. However, this view is quite controversial in the academic world. Sociologists and semiologists believe that the question is a bit biased to begin with:in onder to understand theis phenomenon, we should ask ourselves not why do some men crossdress but why is crossdressing a taboo, or why are clothes gendered to begin with. It is also the paradigm that I agree with the most. What I find hard to understand, in exchange, is why someone would maintain that being gay may be a cause for crossdressing when just on the comment above there's a link to a study showing zero association between these variables? To top it off, next poster:
He's gay.
Yeah righht, if you say so...
You know, this is really getting on my nerves: why do people believe so much that crossdressing (or even panty-wearing
) MUST be associated with being gay, evn if they have no evidence whatsoever to prove it?
)
