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The first volume extensively to document the feelings and experiences of autogynephilic male-to-female transsexuals in their own words, this work offers a compelling and novel theoretical perspective on one of the most challenging topics in sexual psychology.
- Published on: 2015-01-28
- Released on: 2015-01-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x .58" w x 6.10" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 242 pages
Review
“In this highly informative book, Lawrence analyzes theory and research on autogynephilia and presents excerpts from a rich array of first-person narratives collected from autogynephilic individuals. … Her prose is clear, crisp, precise, and facilitates understanding of a complex phenomenon. In sum, Lawrence has written a book that will be of great value to researchers, clinicians, lay people, and, perhaps most importantly of all, to people who experience autogynephilic feelings and desires.” (Richard A. Lippa, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 44, 2015)
From the Back Cover
As a child, he played with trucks and action figures and wanted to be a firefighter. As a
youth, he began dressing up in his mother's clothes and becoming sexually aroused. When
he started dating, he dreamed of being his girlfriends. "What am I?" he asked his therapist.
"A transsexual? A transvestite? Something else?"
This vignette describes a man who experiences autogynephilia: a paraphilic disorder in
which men who are attracted to women are also erotically aroused by the idea of being
women and sometimes want to undergo sex reassignment and live as women. Men
Trapped in Men's Bodies explores the phenomenon of autogynephilia, arguing cogently
that it accounts for many cases of male-to-female (MtF) transsexualism in Western
countries. The book demonstrates that not all MtF transsexuals conform to the familiar
stereotype of women trapped in men's bodies: Many resemble―and even describe
themselves as―men trapped in men's bodies. Sometimes at odds with conventional
wisdom about the interrelationships of sex, gender, and sexuality, the book examines
the manifestations and clinical implications of autogynephilia, based on narratives
provided by over 300 autogynephilic MtF transsexuals and transgender persons: stories
of shame and confusion, courage and self-acceptance. The final chapter examines current
and possible future treatment options for autogynephilic gender dysphoric men.
Included in this important volume are:
• Narratives by autogynephilic transsexuals
• Developmental histories of autogynephilic transsexuals
• Descriptions of different types of autogynephilia
• Autogynephilia's relationship to heterosexuality
• Narratives by nontranssexual autogynephiles
• Contrasting views of the meaning of autogynephilia
For researchers who study gender dysphoria, MtF transsexualism, paraphilias, and
related conditions, and for clinicians who treat patients with these conditions, Men
Trapped in Men's Bodies provides an essential resource for understanding an underappreciated
aspect of MtF transsexualism. For MtF transsexuals and transgender persons,
as well as their partners, family members, friends, and associates, the book is a welcome
new source of information and validation.
About the Author
"As a child, he played with trucks and action figures and wanted to be a firefighter. As a"
"youth, he began dressing up in his mother's clothes and becoming sexually aroused. When"
"he started dating, he dreamed of being his girlfriends. "What am I?" he asked his therapist."
""A transsexual? A transvestite? Something else?""
This vignette describes a man who experiences "autogynephilia" a paraphilic disorder in
which men who are attracted to women are also erotically aroused by the idea of being
women and sometimes want to undergo sex reassignment and live as women. "Men"
"Trapped in Men's Bodies "explores the phenomenon of autogynephilia, arguing cogently
that it accounts for many cases of male-to-female (MtF) transsexualism in Western
countries. The book demonstrates that not all MtF transsexuals conform to the familiar
stereotype of women trapped in men's bodies: Many resemble and even describe
themselves as men trapped in men's bodies. Sometimes at odds with conventional
wisdom about the interrelationships of sex, gender, and sexuality, the book examines
the manifestations and clinical implications of autogynephilia, based on narratives
provided by over 300 autogynephilic MtF transsexuals and transgender persons: stories
of shame and confusion, courage and self-acceptance. The final chapter examines current
and possible future treatment options for autogynephilic gender dysphoric men.
Included in this important volume are:
Narratives by autogynephilic transsexuals
Developmental histories of autogynephilic transsexuals
Descriptions of different types of autogynephilia
Autogynephilia's relationship to heterosexuality
Narratives by nontranssexual autogynephiles
Contrasting views of the meaning of autogynephilia
For researchers who study gender dysphoria, MtF transsexualism, paraphilias, and
related conditions, and for clinicians who treat patients with these conditions, "Men"
"Trapped in Men's Bodies "provides an essential resource for understanding an underappreciated
aspect of MtF transsexualism. For MtF transsexuals and transgender persons,
as well as their partners, family members, friends, and associates, the book is a welcome
new source of information and validation.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Why the conflict between two "theories" of MtF transsexualism? Is it possible that both are "correct"?
By James Lewis Hopkins
I am a 65 y/o partial autogynephilic transvestite, retired-disabled general surgeon who has thought about undergoing complete transition from time to time but has come to feel very content with keep my male genitalia to facilitate a full male arousal from my cross-dressed appearance as a female. My self-perceived gender is entirely male, but I have at long last come to acknowledge that part of WHAT I am mentally is female while WHO I am mentally and WHAT I am physically feels and appears to be entirely male and heterosexual. I was divorced because my wife found my cross-dressing extremely repugnant. We still see each other frequently, though, and I am actively trying to heal our relationship--with some success. I confess that I don't pass very well when I cross-dress. Those who know me as a male instantly read me when I am cross-dressed as a rather manly, heavy-set male awkwardly attired in female garb. I pass more readily among people who don't know me, though, as is commonly the case. Since I have lived for nearly 30 years in the same neighborhood, however, and have been active in my faith, which happens to be the predominant faith in the area, I am rather well known. I feel like I live in a fish bowl surrounded by very critical observers and consequently have decided, with some rather strong encouragement, to not cross-dress in public. The decision has lead to considerable social acceptance in what could have become and was becoming a decidedly intolerant environment.
I found this book and its supporting research extremely impressive and very well thought out and analyzed. The book helped me hit upon the most accurate description of what I feel that I am that I have found anywhere in the academic literature. What puzzled me, however, was what appeared to be an attempt to see the female brain sex narrative as a "theory" that is in opposition to, rather than complimentary to, the "theory" of autogynephilia.
I find it fascinating that so many MtF transsexuals have been found to have feelings of autogynephilia, that there are a growing number of fully transitioned MtF transsexuals who are now sharing the fact that having feelings that they were females trapped in a male body played a little if any role in their desires to transition, and that gender dysphoria is as common as it appears to be among MtF nonhomosexual transsexuals.
I find it hard to understand the objections of some readers, however, that people who describe what they feel are really not what they say or feel they are. The labels given for the conditions described are simply descriptive terms of the objectively or actually expressed subjective feelings of those who came to the Clark Clinic for evaluation and sometimes treatment of feelings or conditions found to be challenging to deal with in one way or another. The self-perceptions given were given. No one should argue about that. These self-perceptions, I think, should not be labeled as "theories" but as simply reported self-perceptions. What a person says they perceive is what it is, a self-perception which can then be succinctly described in the terms given.
That autogynephilic feelings are driving desires to transition has clearly been demonstrated in this book. It is a fact, not a theory. People said that they had autogynephilic feelings and said that these feeling played a role in their decision to transition. What could be more clear?
Some transsexuals also express the self-perception that they feel like they are females trapped in the bodies of men. That some may say this simply to qualify for SRS, I think, has also been undeniably demonstrated. It is not a theory that some MtF transsexual who SAY they feel like women trapped in men's bodies don't actually feel that way or do so to only a small degree. That some individuals hide their real motives for undergoing a procedure has been well demonstrated for many surgical procedures. But I believe that it was also demonstrated by the evidence given in this book that there are some MtF transsexuals that do feel like women trapped in men's bodies and don't have feelings of autogynephilia. The cases described in this book clearly contain reports of MtF transsexuals that describe both sets of feelings.
I think the observations described in this book are a large and rich collection of remarkable and certainly to a large degree thoroughly and rationally analyzed raw data, accurate or not. I believe the book contains factual accounts of what was reported. What these people said is not theory. The data is the data. Supposing that these description may be not reflect a true state affairs is also reasonable, but error is inevitable in collecting data of every kind. I don't think that asserting that errors may occur in describing transsexual subtypes rises to the level of a theory. It's just part of the problem of trying to get to the truth or the actuality of the conditions of the subjects described.
I find the analysis of the cases collected to be exquisite and very helpful in parsing out groups that may need unique approaches in guidance and treatment. But even with this refinement in describing MtF tranvestites and transsexual, clinicians need to remember, and I think generally do, that individualization is always necessary and that no individual fits every box, label, or diagnosis perfectly. One size rarely fits all, and even having hundreds of sizes will leave some individuals outside of all the available sizes. Yet this work, I think, represents a major step forward in describing clinically relevant subsets of transsexuals and transvestites that will greatly facilitate quality care for "men trapped in men's bodies".
I have tried as many others like me have, to "cure" myself of this condition without success. These efforts resulted in a diligent search for possible causes for my transvestism. After considerable digging around, I came to believe that my transvestism may have largely been due to exposure to DES, lead, and DDT in utero. When my mother died, she was found to have a rare, slow growing, inoperable uterine stromal cell sarcoma that has been strongly associated with DES exposure, the hormone disruptor of all hormone disruptors. I was born in 1949 during the heyday of its use. My obstetrician was a very scholarly man and was probably very supportive of the use of DES to prevent premature labor. DES was available without prescription at the time and was commonly included in prenatal vitamins. During my gestation my mother lived down-wind from the dry lake bed of what used to be Owen's Lake in California's Mojave Desert, The dust from this dry lake is contaminated with lead, cadmium, and arsenic, which have also been shown to have hormone disrupting properties. Dust storms laden with extremely fine readily absorbed dust particles were common where she was living while I was in her womb. Lead may have been a contributing factor in the emergence of many persons with GLBT conditions throughout the ages. Lead is commonly associated with silver and cultures that mined silver commonly also mined or were exposed to lead. Anciently, the homes of wealthy aristocrats in Athens, Rome, France, and England used lead pipes to transport drinking water. In Germanic and Scandinavian areas of Europe, water was transported in wooden pipes. This might explain the prevalence of GLBT conditions in the areas where lead pipes were commonly used. The relatively recent -- mid-1970s--removal of lead in gasoline has resulted in a marked decline in lead levels in the entire western world but may have contributed to the rise of the GLBT movement since that time. Furthermore, I was born around the time that DDT was being sprayed to control mosquitoes in large quantities in the Kerns River Valley which supplied the water to the town where my mother was living. Exposure to environmental hormone disruptors--of which over 1500 have now been identified and include chemicals found in plastics used for storing milk and juice and in lining metal cans and many commonly used herbicides and pesticides--may be responsible for what I have reason to believe is a growing prevalence of transvestism and transsexualism. These notions are THEORIES with lots of supporting data that may explain all or much of the conditions described in this book. I think these are THEORIES of possible causality for many GLBT conditions that need urgent attention.
27 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Everything you ever wanted to know about autogynephilia
By A Skeptical Reader
Very few books have been written on the unfortunately controversial topic of autogynephilia, "love of oneself as a woman," which is the propensity of non-homosexual male-to-female transsexuals and transvestites to be sexually aroused by the thought of themselves with a female body. Some members of the transgender community despise this concept, as it paints them as "MEN trapped in men's bodies" rather than "WOMEN trapped in men's bodies." I first learned of the concept of autogynephilia from J. Michael Bailey's The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism, which described the theories of Dr. Ray Blanchard.
Dr. Lawrence's book goes far beyond Bailey's, and comes across as more of an "insider piece" due to the fact that Dr Lawrence is herself an autogynephilic transsexual as well as a practicing clinician. The book goes into great detail about Blanchard's concept, and provides many, many examples drawn from narratives written by autogynephilic transsexuals and transvestites themselves. It also addresses objections to autogynephilia, including the recent canard, derived from a flawed study, that natal women are autogynephilic (they are NOT).
This is a wonderful book that needed to be written - it's too bad that it will probably be attacked by "reviewers" here on Amazon who haven't even read it simply because it supports a concept that some people in the transgender community find threatening to their self-image.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Five stars for Chapters 1-11. Zero stars for Chapter 12.
By Absalom
This was an interesting book, and an important addition to the transgender literature. The first 11 chapters are devoted to narratives written by autogynephilic transsexuals, broken down into various categories. Although occasionally redundant, they provide a fascinating look into the mindset of the transsexual. I would venture that transgender activists would be extremely unhappy with the honesty expressed in these narratives, particularly with the constant discussion of the sexual arousal and eroticism associated with being male-to-female transgender.
However, I was extremely disappointed with the concluding chapter. After eleven chapters of painstaking portrayal of transsexualism as a paraphilic psychological disorder, she is quick to conclude that the best “solution” is a lifetime of hormones and gender reassignment surgery. At the same time, she readily concedes that the transgender individual would still never have a normal life as a woman, would always be merely a “facsimile,” and would forever be an oddity. Admittedly, the author is an autogynephilic transsexual herself, who has had gender reassignment surgery, so perhaps she would prefer not to look for a less destructive “solution.” She even advocates for self-deception, if that makes it easier for autogynephilic men to obtain gender reassignment surgery. This strikes me as appalling advice from a medical doctor.
In short, it’s an excellent attempt at an honest portrayal of a very sensitive subject, but with a potentially harmful conclusion.
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