Autogynephilia: A Paraphilic Model of Gender Identity Disorder

@article{and2004AutogynephiliaAP,
  title={Autogynephilia: A Paraphilic Model of Gender Identity Disorder},
  author={Anne A. Lawrence Md and},
  journal={Journal of Gay \& Lesbian Mental Health},
  year={2004},
  volume={8},
  pages={69-87}
}
SUMMARY Autogynephilia is defined as a male's propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as female. Autogynephilia explains the desire for sex reassignment of some male-to-female (MTF) transsexuals. It can be conceptualized as both a paraphilia and a sexual orientation. The concept of autogynephilia provides an alternative to the traditional model of transsexualism that emphasizes gender identity. Autogynephilia helps explain mid-life MTF gender transition, progression… 
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Autogynephilia: an underappreciated paraphilia.
  • A. Lawrence
  • Psychology
    Advances in psychosomatic medicine
  • 2011
TLDR
The concept of autogynephilia can assist clinicians in understanding some otherwise puzzling manifestations of nonhomosexual MtF transsexualism and offers a theory of motivation for one type of MtF transgenderism.
Autogynephilia and the typology of male-to-female transsexualism: Concepts and controversies.
Abstract. Sexual scientists have recognized for over a century that biologic males who seek sex reassignment – male-to-female (MtF) transsexuals – are not a homogeneous clinical population but…
Autogynephilia in Women
  • C. Moser
  • Psychology
    Journal of homosexuality
  • 2009
TLDR
An Autogynephilia Scale for Women (ASW) was created from items used to categorize MTFs as autogynephilic in other studies to test the possibility that natal women also experience aut misogynephilia.
Transgenderism in nonhomosexual males as a paraphilic phenomenon: implications for case conceptualization and treatment
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It is argued that it is useful for therapists to think about bothvestic fetishism and the nonhomosexual type of male-to-female (MTF) transsexualism as paraphilic phenomena, and the clinical spectrum to which they belong, as paraphobic phenomena.
Blanchard's Autogynephilia Theory: A Critique
  • C. Moser
  • Psychology
    Journal of homosexuality
  • 2010
TLDR
The theory that links the sexual orientation of male-to-female transsexuals with the presence or absence of autogynephilia, or erotic arousal by the thought or image of “himself” as a woman, is critiqued.
Becoming What We Love: autogynephilic transsexualism conceptualized as an expression of romantic love
  • A. Lawrence
  • Psychology
    Perspectives in biology and medicine
  • 2007
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A broader conception of autogynephilia can more accurately be conceptualized as a type of sexual orientation and as a variety of romantic love, involving both erotic and affectional or attachment-based elements.
Becoming What We Love: autogynephilic transsexualism conceptualized as an expression of romantic love
The increasing prevalence of male-to-female (MtF) transsexualism in Western countries is largely due to the growing number of MtF transsexuals who have a history of sexual arousal with cross-dressing…
Anatomic Autoandrophilia in an Adult Male
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The demonstration that anatomic autoandrophilia exists in men is consistent with the theory that erotic target location errors constitute an independent paraphilic dimension.
Early History of the Concept of Autogynephilia
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The writer’s research on the taxonomy of gender identity disorders in biological males suggested that heterosexual, asexual, and bisexual transsexuals are more similar to each other—and to transvestites—than any of them is to the homosexual type, and that the common feature in transvestite and the three types of non-homosexual transsexuals is a history of erotic arousal.
Sexual Arousal Patterns of Autogynephilic Male Cross-Dressers
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Similar to GAMP men, autogynephilic men showed increased arousal by GAM stimuli relative to female stimuli compared with heterosexual men, and heterosexual men were much more similar in their arousal patterns to heterosexual and GAMPMen than to homosexual men.
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