Meanings
- not comparableRelating to transvestism.
He occupies himself professionally with women's clothes as an outlet for his suppressed transvestic desires.
2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 782 more examples
Transvestic fetishism varies from the occasional wearing of a few articles of clothing of the opposite sex to complete cross-dressing.
1996, Michael G. Gelder, Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, page 499Eighty-two percent (n = 23) of the paraphilic group declared fetishistic interests, 79% reported sadomasochistic interests, and 50% were transvestic.
2012, D. Richard Laws, William T. O'Donohue, Sexual Deviance, Second Edition: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivereceiving sexual gratification from wearing clothing of the opposite sex
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Polish transwestytyczny
- transwestytycznyrelating to transvestism
Cite this entry
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