transvestism
IPA: trænzvˈɛstɪzʌm
noun
- The condition of being a transvestite.
- (clinical psychology, psychiatry, pathology) A paraphilia typically found in heterosexual males characterized by compulsively seeking and deriving sexual arousal from cross-dressing, especially if the urges and behavior cause the patient distress or social impairment.
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Examples of "transvestism" in Sentences
- The clinical syndrome of femmiphilic transvestism.
- Transvestism was declassified as an illness in 2008.
- Transvestism and hanging episodes in a male adolescent.
- The discrete syndromes of transvestism and transsexualism.
- Zapotecs are also tolerant of bisexuality and transvestism.
- ‘Superheroism is a kind of transvestism’ « Gerry Canavan
- This group was not particularly happy with the term transvestism.
- Transvestism: There are many different usages and meanings of the term transvestism.
- Also, the Hebrew Bible mandates that men and women dress differently, probably to discourage transvestism, and other forms of what Moses termed perversion.
- Candy is, 'The first fashion magazine ever completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations.'
- Candy — only in its second issue — describes itself as the "first fashion magazine ever completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations."
- An old-fashioned vaudevillian romp with transvestism and a gay love story at its center, "La Cage" ran at the Palace Theatre on Broadway for more than four years, through the darkest stretch of the AIDS crisis, which decimated the cast, rendered Herman HIV positive and killed his partner Marty.
- Superheroism is a kind of transvestism; our superdrag serves at once to obscure the exterior self that no longer defines us while betraying, with half-unconscious panache, the truth of the story we carry in our hearts, the story of our transformation, of our story’s recommencement, of our rebirth into the world of adventure, of story itself.
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