The wave of laws in the 1850s represented a “new development specific to gender presentation,” according to Susan Stryker, an associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. I’ve divided my reasons into four broad categories, the first of which is to please someone or suit someone’s agenda (6 reasons). This category is popular with writers of crossdressing fiction and fantasies, whose stories are often characterized by both external and internal forces–a relative or friend requires or coerces a male (usually young) to crossdress, and this act is instrumental in the protagonist’s discovery of his true transgender state. Karen: Come over this saturday around 12. My parents are going away for the weekend so i have the house to myself. this is the perfect opportunity, c'mon. In the early 1960s, as a little kid, I’d watched my mother dress and, I think, just expected to grow up to be like her. However, I soon came to realise I was a boy, which I accepted… Until in my teens I came across an article in Oz magazine. I tried to calm myself down and then went to open the door. I was still nervous if she would suspect something but with a smile I opened the door and welcomed her. She looked exhausted from her trip and said she wanted to take a shower to freshen up.

My sissy period for 4 days was bad enough and very unpleasant. I can’t imagine a girl having a really bad period with cramping for 7 days or more, but Mistress Rosemarie promises me that this last sissy period was not as terrible as I made it seem and I should expect my sissy periods to get longer and more disgusting like a real girl’s period. I had PMS after just a four day period. After my bath she always has to add a humiliation though. She perfumed me and then we went shopping at the supermarket. I tried to stay close to her so as we walked by other women they would not notice that the pretty perfume smell was from me. I was to have my first feminine period and I would certainly learn what the big deal was after 24 hours. I groaned, but there was no way out of this now. Next morning, my wife came up to me and she looked much calm that the night before. I apologized to her once again and told her I would really stop crossdressing. She then held my hand and told me it was okay and she wasn’t angry at me. I felt a little relieved but still very embarrassed. We talked about my crossdressing for many hours that day and she told me it was okay as long as I wasn’t gay and had no interest in her. I told her I really loved her and crossdressing was just something I did for excitement and I was not gay.Thank you so much for sharing. I had a similar story but it was much more connected to my gender identity. I got caught at a young age (about 9) trying on my mom’s makeup and she threatened to parade me up and down the neighborhood in it if I ever did it again. So like you, I hid my crossdressing periodically throwing away my stash for years even after I married the most amazing woman. All of it was complicated by the fact that we both grew up in very conservative and religious homes and I was even a minister for a while. As I grew a little older, I couldn’t really sneak into my sister’s room and from the internet discovered that I was actually a crossdresser who liked dressing up as a girl every now and then. I felt a little relived knowing that there were many people like me who loved to dress up. He disguises himself as a woman to be with or near his beloved. There are many real-life examples of women disguising themselves as men to follow their husbands or sweethearts into battle. I can’t cite any specific examples of men dressing as women to be near their wives or girlfriends, but I suspect that it has happened–a teenager seeking to infiltrate a girls’ school or camp, for example. This has certainly been a movie plot device, and it was also a plot element in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Princess Ida. In this case, Prince Hilarion and two friends disguise themselves as women to invade the fortress of the ultra-feminist Princess Ida. She was betrothed to the Prince when she was one and he was two, and now, twenty years later, he means to claim his bride. Nature may not be the best place to show off your femininity but some cute crossdressers think otherwise. Oh!” She exclaimed, opening her eye’s as wide as they would go. “Your even harder then you were! Hearing what I have planned excited you!” She laughed for a moment. “Then I shouldn’t have any trouble at all turning you into my little sissy slave-girl should I?” She teased.

He disguises himself to earn a living in a woman’s job. (Not too many years ago, kiddies, there were “men’s jobs” and “women’s jobs.” Now, the non-TG male job seeker would simply file a lawsuit instead of assuming a disguise.) The real-life example here is one of the child actors in the old Our Gang films. One of the gang was supposed to be a girl, but the part was played by a boy who was initially presented to audiences as a girl. In the fictional realm, we can turn to the comic strip Apartment 3G. In one series of episodes, a writer who had submitted a manuscript under a woman’s name had to disguise himself as a woman when a publisher accepted the manuscript and wanted the author(ess) to promote the book on talk shows. http://cdpunishment.com/institute/images/2010/12/sissybilly_101229-025e.jpg)](http://cdpunishment.com/institute/images/2010/12/sissybilly_101229-025s.jpg )

When she was out, I would then take out my secret stash of feminine items and get dressed and enjoy myself. One day, I finally decided to step out of the house dressed as a woman in the evening because I started to get bored just dressing up inside the house. I followed her into the bedroom after switching off the T.V. and the lights, then I sat on the edge of the bed and listened to the sound of the water hitting the shower enclosure. I don’t know what caused me to decide to call her bluff, but the next thing that happened was that I had stripped off everything I was wearing. He dresses as a female for psychological satisfaction. He feels better when he is crossdressed, whether or not crossdressing gives him erotic or aesthetic pleasure. But as time progressed and fashion evolved, it was increasingly difficult to even define what “cross-dressing” entailed from a law-enforcement perspective, Stryker told PBS NewsHour.