04-28-2019, 11:37 PM
As I've said elsewhere, I did not start CDing as a sexual addiction, and that was never my interest, intent, or experience. That being said, the question of whether I have had dysphoria or not and where it came from is still a good question to ask.
Stress has often brought on a time of CDing in my life. It has been a relief, and escape from reality (not so much a rejection of the male role, but an escape from difficulties in life). But I don't think that has brought on dysphoria. Maybe I have had some, it's kind of hard for me to say. There have certainly been times when I have thought I would rather be a woman, but never that I WAS a woman, or was supposed to be one. So, CDing being an escape for me was not an escape from being a man, from masculinity per se, but from difficult life circumstances. So I believe my experience is different than what yours has been like, and what you are guessing about most CDers.
Stress has often brought on a time of CDing in my life. It has been a relief, and escape from reality (not so much a rejection of the male role, but an escape from difficulties in life). But I don't think that has brought on dysphoria. Maybe I have had some, it's kind of hard for me to say. There have certainly been times when I have thought I would rather be a woman, but never that I WAS a woman, or was supposed to be one. So, CDing being an escape for me was not an escape from being a man, from masculinity per se, but from difficult life circumstances. So I believe my experience is different than what yours has been like, and what you are guessing about most CDers.