Gender Transgression Survey Responses

The purpose of a survey about gender transgression was to determine if the concept of transgressing gender is valid.  Do men feel a sense of transgression when they do feminine-typical things?  Do women feel a sense of transgression when they do masculine-typical things?  I also explored how things like AGP and AAP, gender issues, homosexuality, and transgender identity affect a sense of gender transgression.  I also asked about pleasure for doing things that are either male or female typical.

Before I explain the survey further, I would like to note some difficulties I had while attempting to get respondents to this survey.  I posted this survey to the subreddit r/samplesize in order to get respondents.  My survey was downvoted by some presumably male to female transsexuals who decided that I was transphobic because I had posted to r/gendercritical in the past.  It's ironic that this was their reason for downvoting me, considering how I described my feelings for r/gendercritical in my previous blog.

I reposted this survey to r/samplesize under a different Reddit account, and I was able to get a good number of respondents, but eventually that post was taken down by the moderators of r/samplesize because some people (again, presumably male to female transsexuals) flagged it as transphobic.  I am weary about the results because there's a good chance some of the respondents answered falsely in order to produce bad results.  Despite this, and because this is not an academic survey, I decided to proceed with an analysis of the results.

Results

Gender Transgression and Delight in Overall Male and Female Respondents 

I discovered that gender transgression (feeling like you have violated a boundary) is a valid concept when it comes to women feeling as though they violated a boundary by doing male-typical things, and also when it comes to men feeling as though they violated a boundary by doing female-typical things.  When it came to finding gendered activities delightful, men found female-typical activities less pleasurable than women, but the difference in delight for male-typical activities was not significant.

A feeling of violating a boundary by engaging in a non-gender typical way exists in both men and women.  Males feel less pleasure by doing female-typical things, but females find male-typical things about as pleasurable as men do.

Effect of A*P, Gender Issues, Homosexuality

AGP male responses are similar to non-AGP male responses, except that AGP males find more delight in female-typical activities.

AAP female responses are similar to non-AAP females responses, except that AAP females find more delight in male-typical activities, and find female-typical activities slightly more transgressive.

Men with gender issues find male-typical activities slightly more transgressive and female-typical activities more delightful.  They also find male-typical activities less delightful.

Women with gender issues find female-typical activities slightly more transgressive and male-typical activities more delightful.  They also find female-typical activities less delightful.

Homosexual males find female-typical things slightly more delightful.

Homosexual females find female-typical things slightly more transgressive and slightly less delightful.  They find male-typical things slightly more delightful.

Transgender Responses

Compared to men, trans women find female-typical activities less transgressive and more delightful.  They find male-typical activities more transgressive and less delightful.

Compared to women, trans women find female-typical activities both more transgressive and more delightful.  They find male-typical activities equally transgressive  but much less delightful.

Compared to women, trans men find female-typical activities more transgressive and less delightful.  They find male-typical activities less transgressive and more delightful.

Compared to men, trans men find female-typical activities more transgressive and less delightful.  They find male-typical activities both more transgressive and more pleasurable.

Further Research

I did not try to divide A*P trans responses from non-A*P trans responses.  I could possibly do this based on the questions I posed regarding sexual orientation and arousal by the idea of being the opposite sex.


What I Found Significant in this Survey

The first result that I found significant was that gender transgression appears to be real.  There does appear to be a boundary between female and male typical behaviours, with some kind of emotional response one has when it is crossed.

The second result that I found significant was that transgender people find engaging in behaviours that are typical of their birth gender to be less pleasurable.  I have heard accounts of trans people who are really off-put by engaging in behaviour related to their gender assigned at birth.  I speculate that this could be due to A*P types feeling disconnected to their female artifact (an internal persona that they love) by engaging in birth gender typical behaviour.  Evidence for this theory would be stronger if compared A*P to non-A*P transgender responses.

Sexual Fantasy Survey Responses - A Brief Analysis

Sorry that I haven't been keeping up with this blog.  It's hard to motivated to write things here when the reaction it get to my post about lesbians puts people off.  The motivation for studying lesbian attitudes towards men was based on hatred that I was observing on the subreddit r/gendercritical.  That subreddit has been banned from Reddit due to hate, so I was clearly not the only person who noticed the hateful content.  It's unfortunate when any group contains members who are hateful.  It complicates things when the hatred comes largely from a minority group (lesbians) and it targets men, who are often seen as acceptable targets for hate.  This topic matters to me because I was a victim to misandry as a child, and it has stuck with me.  There's evidence that internalized misandry can have an impact on how much gender dysphoria a man feels, but that's something I will be looking into in greater detail in the form of a study later.

With that off my chest, I can get into what this blog post is really about, and that's to describe some of my results from previous surveys.  I don't plan on going into much detail, but I think it's worth stating what some of my results were.

Sexual Fantasies Survey

For this survey I asked a number of questions regarding sexual fetishes, erotic target identity inversions, and mental illnesses (both formally diagnosed and suspected by the respondent).  I found these notable results:

• People who masturbate more than once a week are more likely to have a fetish
• People who masturbate more than once a week are more likely to be aroused by inhabiting a body that is not theirs
• About half of people with unusual erotic targets, like furries or pedophiles, are aroused by the idea of transformation - i.e. transforming into their erotic target

Masturbation Frequency

There appears to be some kind of relationship between fetishes, masturbation frequency, unusual erotic targets, and erotic target identity inversions (ETII; wanting to be the sexual target you find desirable).  Higher masturbation frequency might point to a higher sex drive, which might in turn cause fetishes somehow, but I find this unlikely.  Many fetishes develop in childhood, prior to puberty, so sex drive might not play a role.  It could be that fetishes themselves trigger arousal more frequently, resulting in masturbating more often.  One such fetish is arousal by inhabiting a body that is not theirs (ETII).  It seems more likely to me that a fetish causes someone to be aroused more often, rather than having a greater sex drive.  Perhaps a fetish is a stronger arousal pathway than a non-fetishtic arousal pathway.

Erotic Target Identity Inversions and Unusual Erotic Targets

It's interesting that about half of people with unusual erotic targets, like furries or pedophiles, are aroused by the idea of transformation - i.e. transforming into their erotic target.  Autogynephiles are aroused by the idea of being women, and only 3-15% of the male population are autogynephiles.  Something is going on to make people with unusual erotic targets much more likely to be aroused by the idea of being their erotic target.  Below is a graph showing erotic target and percentage of those two desire to inhabit another body.  I also included those who masturbate several times a day and those who masturbate weekly.  Those who masturbate several times a day are much more likely to find it sexually exciting to inhabit another body.  Further study should be done on high-frequency masturbators.





Mental Illness and Fetishes

When it came to sexual fetishes and mental illnesses, people with the following mental illnesses were more likely to have a sexual fetish than the mean of the total of respondents: ADD + ADHD, OCD, borderline personality disorder, and schizophrenia.  Bipolar disorder did not increase the likelihood of a sexual fetish.  More research is needed regarding the relationship to fetishes and mental illnesses.

Future Studies

The following would be valuable to research:

• Fetishes and frequency of masturbation:  Why do people with fetishes masturbate more frequently?
• Unusual erotic targets and ETII:  Why are people with unusual erotic targets more likely to have ETIIs
• Mental illnesses and fetishes:  What impact do mental illnesses have on fetishes, ETIIs, gender dysphoria, and the likelihood of identifying is the opposite gender or gender non-binary.