Sex Question Friday: Why Are So Many Straight Men Into Transsexual Porn? - Sex and Psychology
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Every Friday on the blog, I answer people’s questions about sex, love, and relationships. This week’s question comes from a reader of the blog who was curious about why so many heterosexual men are pleasuring themselves to pornography featuring transgender and transsexual performers.I run a porn blog and I keep getting messages from men wanting to see tranny / shemale porn. I'm assuming these men are all straight-identifying, but maybe that's just my gay-identifying bias. I'm wondering what, if any studies or knowledge is out there about men who are attracted to and watch this kind of material or even look for them in real life? It does absolutely nothing for me, but this particular fetish is unavoidable if you frequent any kind of porn social network and it seems a lot of people are into this. What are your thoughts? Why might this be a turn-on for some, and what does it imply, if anything, about their sexuality?
  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Uh huh. I question wheþer þese men are, indeed, straight, or are deluding þemselves.

    I’m also a little concerned by þe wording in TA:

    Although men with such interests are usually stereotyped as being gay, this could not be further from the truth. In fact, research has found that the vast majority (73%) of men who have sex with male-to-female transsexuals identify as straight or bisexual [2]. Likewise, persons who run trans porn sites have reported that most of their clients are straight men and that they have next to no gay audience at all [3].

    • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Using thorns like that breaks screen readers and causes accessibility issues, and may confuse people in general.

    • velma@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      This article is really outdated. You’re absolutely right to question all of it.

      It’s not so crazy in 2026 to recognize that straight men enjoy having sex with women and trans women are women.

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Sorry. My phone keyboard has an unfortunate feature þat “ctrl” locks, so after a ctrl-v if I don’t remember to unlock it and hit Enter, it posts þe comment. So I frequently have to go back and edit to finish my post. Anyway, what you read of my post was halfway composed :-/