Cross-Dressing. Why?

[naomi24]

I can understand homosexuality, I can understand trans-gender, but I simply cannot understand why heterosexual men indulge in cross-dressing. Any thoughts that may enlighten me will be welcome.

[Sqad]

murray.....don't bother to explain.....they will never accept it to us "ignorants."

[mikey4444]

I have to agree with Naomi here.

Don't get me wrong...people can go about dressed as carrots as far as I am concerned. But why would any man want to dress up in women's clothing ?

Grayson Perry probably does it be the centre of attention, but what a pity that he can't let his excellent works do that for him instead.

[fiction-factory]

So, sqad, are you saying that there aren't some people who fancy men and women?

[murraymints]

but sqad they don't do it to attract men at all..well in my experience, and I think a lot of men have a feminine side which does not detract from their manliness at all...

[andy-hughes]

Sqad - //Look, if you were truly herterosexual ( you fancied women) why would you put on women's clothes to attract men.....difficult to understand eh? and that was the question of the OP.
This business pf men being 40% htero 60%homo or 70%...you get the picture is b,llsh1t. //

I try very hard to state a fact or an opinion based on personal knowledge and / or experience - which is why I dipped out of making any wild claims based on no knowledge whatsoever.

Why don't you join me in that stance?

[naomi24]

Jim, when I asked you if that is you in your avatar you said, //Yes, it is. .……Hope it doesn't affect the way you see me, but at any rate it hopefully explains why certain issues discussed on AB matter to me rather.//, it explained nothing. Although I hadn’t asked the reasons, you just seemed to assume that I was aware of them. I’m not, and I told you I don't know where you're coming from with this, but I respect your privacy, of course, and I won’t ask again.

Ummmm, // Can I ask what prompted the question?//

See above. For anyone who would like to see the original conversation, it’s here:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1479468-3.html

[murraymints]

fiction that is bisexual not transvestite..quite separate things

[AB Editor]

"Grayson Perry probably does it be the centre of attention, but what a pity that he can't let his excellent works do that for him instead."

I think you'll find he does that as well - not instead.

Unless you feel him dressing up in petticoats somehow effects his artwork?!

What a strange opinion to hold Mikey.

I think Sqad is having a little wind up :)

[mikey4444]

I can't see that sexuality, ie hetero or homo has anything to do with this subject. To use Perry as an example, as far as I know, he heterosexual.

But why does he frequently dress up as Little Bo Peep, if not to shock ?

[murraymints]

regardless it does not make them bad people at all..live and let live I say

[Sqad]

I am saying that if you are heterosexual male.......you fancy women.
If you are heterosexual male.......then you might, just might try it on with a bloke......for fun or excitement, but another male would be your preference. If you were a heterosexual male and could develop a relationship with a female....you would either become homosexual, go without sex or put on women's clothes.

A true heterosexual male wants a woman for sex.

[murraymints]

and he makes avery fetching bo peep !

[gness]

Mikey.....could he perhaps do if for the same reason that I always wear black?

[AB Editor]

Good thread though, lets not let this one turn into a fight.

[fiction-factory]

"fiction that is bisexual not transvestite..quite separate things"
I never said what it was.
It was in response to sqad's comment "This business pf men being 40% htero 60%homo or 70%...you get the picture is b,llsh1t"

[murraymints]

sqad.. I agree with that last bit..as did the person I knew!

[andy-hughes]

Sqad - //I am saying that if you are heterosexual male.......you fancy women.
If you are heterosexual male.......then you might, just might try it on with a bloke......for fun or excitement, but another male would be your preference. If you were a heterosexual male and could develop a relationship with a female....you would either become homosexual, go without sex or put on women's clothes.

A true heterosexual male wants a woman for sex. //

Apparently you don't wish to join me abstaining from holding forth about something I know nothing about!

[mikey4444]

Nothing strange at all Ed ! Perry is now know known more for his habit of dressing up as fairy story characters, than he is for his art work. He is, in effect, a transvestite who pots, rather than a potter who is also a trannie.

[naomi24]

Mikey, //I can't see that sexuality, ie hetero or homo has anything to do with this subject.//

Spot on. I'm talking about men who claim to be heterosexual.

[Sqad]

A-H

\\\\\Why don't you join me in that stance?\\\
If that means what i think it means.....I find it insulting.

How do you know what sexual experiences I have had...hetero or homo?