Whats so exciting about crossdressing?

I assume it is the appeal of being different

It’s doing something taboo and ‘naughty’.

Mixing mayonnaise with ketchup, ewwwwww!!!

There’s nothing exciting about it if it is not a turn-on for you.

Like any other type of fetish, it makes very little sense to those who aren’t affected by it.

Some guys have a foot fetish and any number of others in the list. Evidently these develop at a pretty early age for reasons not clearly understood.

Unfortunately, it’s far too easy for society to mock that which they don’t understand.

Flashers aside, the vast majority of fetishists just want to be able to find an adult consenting partner who is willing to indulge their fantasy or role play. It’s not that easy to do for many.
I once knew a really nice guy who had a yellow rain slicker fetish. One of the oddest I’ve ever heard about, but when he explained it to me, I could see why it made sense FOR HIM.

Trying on all the pretty shoes and dress… Ahem, ahem, I mean… nothing, I would never do that. Honest. :)

I always feel a little sad for cross dressers. Maybe that’s the wrong term to use. I recently saw a little bit of some sort of Olympiad held by all cross dressed men. The were all so over the top, it just struck me as sad. Like they all get together and live out their fantasies, but at the end of the night the clothes come off and there is still a penis there. They have to wear wigs and lots and lots of makeup, and they will never be happy.
Maybe I was reading it wrong and projecting.

It’s a fetish for some people. Some people are turned on by being in the opposite sex’s clothing. But like @Buttonstc said, unless you have that fetish, it’s not going to do that much for you, although it could be exciting or fun just to do something so different.

I used to cross-dress when I was little. My sister and I would play dress-up and I would always wear girls’ clothes and pretend I was a girl. I have absolutely no interest in doing so now, so I don’t know what that was all about. I think it just made my parents think that I might be transgendered for a little while… :)

I tried drag (dressed as a gent). I thought that I looked rather cute, as did the g/f

The dress then lead to undressing (her undressing me; buttoned down shirt on down).. and fabulous sex.

For us, it was rather erotic.

@Dominic

What you describe is a very normal stage of exploratory play, in which many many children (both gay and straight) participate, so that’s pretty much all that it was about for you and many other kids.

However, many fetishists become fixated upon some aspect of that. Why that fixation develops and continues to grow is still little understood other than it does occur. Why? Good question.

I think that this is a difficult question for most women to have insight on because there is little in the way of male clothing that a woman cannot wear in public. Even a man’s tie on a button down blouse draws only a little attention or comment. To – hopefully – forestall a rash of naysayers, I recognize that a woman can “crossdress” as a man and try to create a convincing illusion of being male. If a woman does that it probably is the equivalent of a male crossdressing in tranditionally female clothing. However, my point is that women have much more freedom with regard to clothing than do men. A woman can walk around in pretty much whatever she wants and not draw comment whereas a man in a skirt or dress is always, always noticed and usually ridiculed if not worse.

So, all I can really say is based on my experience with a very sweet, gentle man I know who likes to crossdress. His sexual life is straight, but he says that he enjoys dressing up as a woman and adopting somewhat stereotypical women’s mannerisms as a way to just relax, to “get out of his own head” and have fun with a different persona.

I also understand that not all crossdressers crossdress for the same reason.

Undeniably, some gay or bisexual men do it as part of courtship.

Then there is the whole transgendered category, which is very open ended and hard to define. If a male truly want to be a female in fact it makes sense that he wishes to wear clothing which would enhance his feelings of being feminine.

All in all, I think it is an interesting subject but one which draws more attention to the individuals who indulge in crossdressing than is really warranted. I try to view it as a personal choice activity which is harmless and mildly embarrassing at worst and may be beneficial to the individuals who engage in it.

Cross dressing is a terrible fettish. I’m very open minded about hetrosexual encounters but that sort of thing doesn’t interest me in the slightest.

@beautifulbobby193 You just contradicted yourself lol…..I think you meant to say that either: you are not very open-minded because you think it is ‘terrible’, or you are open-minded, but cross-dressing is not for you personally.

I like girls in rainbow knee-high socks, I can’t explain why. I just do. It’s the same thing for cross dressers I would assume.

@Trillian They don’t want to be the opposite sex, they just like dressing that way. They aren’t transgendered.
I don’t know whats so exciting about it, I don’t cross dress. But, I imagine it’s finding a little niche in the world and it just brings you happiness when you do it.

@casheroo I think that your statement is a little overbroad. It is true that most crossdressers do not want to be transgendered, but if you were to conduct interviews with persons who transgendered from male to female I believe that you would find that most of them crossdressed at a time when they were anatomically male in all respects. That doesn’t mean crossdressing is a predictor for eventually wanting to become transgendered. As I said before, not all crossdressers crossdress for the same reason.