Meanings
- uncountableSexual arousal from transvestism.
Onset of transvestophilia is retrospectively dated to peripuberty or later, although fascination with female clothing may be dated to an earlier age, frequently age 8 or younger.
1999, Robert T. Ammerman, Michel Hersen, Cynthia G. Last, Handbook of Prescriptive Treatments for Children and Adolescents1 more example
The state of transvestophilia is either extremely rare or nonexistent in women. Transvestophilia is only secondarily a fetishistic syndrome. Primarily it is one of the gender-transposition syndromes.
1986, John Money, Lovemaps, page 66
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