I’ve already written an article about escape strategies. Most people are unhappy for one reason or the other, and engage in some sort of escapism to literally ‘take their minds away’ from their problems and issues. It can be TV, it can be sports, computer games, a hobby, or just […]
Sandra M. Lopes
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This time, I’ll use a lighter tone on this article; the last one was a bit too provocative and not well-enough grounded in academic research, so it might have been offensive to some. I do apologise for that. For this article I’m just pasting together random things, without apparent connection […]
There was a recent thread started on Fetlife that caught my attention, because it addresses something which activists worry about a lot: public acceptance of crossdreamers, crossdressers, and transgendered people. And it made me reflect a bit on what fundamentally is a problem without solution.
Years ago, when researching about my inner urges to crossdress, I looked for a lot of material — both from psychological research and also from the community — for an explanation. It is a very well-researched fact that all transgendered people will do that — even more so, in this age […]
A decade ago, I met a very interesting person on the virtual world of Second Life. She would certainly describe herself as autogynephilic[*] (i.e. getting excited with her own image as a female), but she didn’t crossdress (although she was always intrigued by the possibilities). She did, however, use a […]
Malcolm Gladwell defined on his book Outliers that to achieve extraordinary performance in a field of study, it takes about 10,000 hours of practice. This number came from research into the lives of very successful people in several areas, and the conclusion was about the same. While this theory has been […]
So, big plans, only to have a (relatively) short dressing time… Around here, it’s Carnival. Well, technically it’ll be on Tuesday. Carnival, of course, is when crossdressers can safely walk the streets. But, unlike Brazil, we have abolished Carnival as a holiday. What that means is that we either skip […]
Disclaimer: I do not work for Classic Curves International, nor have I been commissioned to write this review, which, in any case, only reflects my opinion, experiences and feelings about the product, which was not submitted to a scientific, unbiased test 🙂 It’s not frequent for me to do product […]
First of all, I hope you had all wonderful holidays 🙂 And I sincerely wish you a happy new year — may all wishes come true, as the song goes. The week before Christmas I had a chat with my wife, instead of crossdressing at the time I hoped for. […]
Google+ seems to be “indexing my photos too much”. By this I mean that, because they have been made public, they appear on all sorts of places where I don’t really want to see them — namely, as choices for people I know to add me to their Circles. This […]