Hiya folks..c'est moi!! 
I got a little lost with some of the technicalities ( I never do well with medical acronyms!) but I got the general gist Ok and I think its fascinating.
I've seen a number of folks say that they lose the desire to cross-dress once on PM and I think I have to count myself amongst them, to some extent at least, although not to the same extent that it seems to have affected sfem - I still wear female trousers and jumpers/blouses when at home during the day but its been a long time since I've bothered with wig and makeup or wanted to go out dressed. I had actually assumed that to some extent, it was a case of once the freedom to do it was here, the grass on the other side no longer looked as green as it once was, it hadn't really occurred to me that it was a direct chemical reaction to the PM.
I'm not really sure how I feel about that thought now. Cross-dressing was never really about sex for me, but I did use to find that if I masturbated whilst dressed, I immediately afterwards HAD to get it all off, for reasons that I never understood, and I tried to avoid doing it if I could.
As of now, I do sometimes feel like putting on the whole deal, but somehow there are always more important things to do! I guess it is no longer an end in its own right - again, in past years I would find that whilst dressed, I couldn't bring myself to do the male type things that I would normally have done, whereas now, I do whatever needs doing irrespective of how I'm dressed - even to the extent of building a set of built-in wardrobes and installing them, whilst wearing ladies jeans, blouse, bra and medium heel wedge shoes.
That was not a deliberate overlaying of one role on another, I just got dressed in what felt comfortable and did what I had to do that weekend.
I stopped PM for 4 weeks a few months ago and I don't recall an increased desire to - Literally as I was typing that half a sentence, something just hit me!! - I was going on to say, ..."cross-dress." However that's wrong and I never realised it before. For other reasons that I have no intention of going into, I stopped myself from cross-dressing back in early Feb. I'll admit that it was a lot easier to stop than I would have expected (so presumably that was the PM effect but I didn't realise), I literally just switched it off. Then in early July, towards the end of my 4 weeks PM abstinence, I felt the need for it again and made a concious decision to dress fully. The first week or so I did indeed go the whole hog and I also made arrangements to go to a wig salon and get a new one or two...but somehow I've never actually made that trip, nor put the whole lot on again...and that was after a couple of weeks back on PM.
So yep, I guess it is true, PM decreases the 'need' to cross-dress.
OH BTW.. Beverley... you don't REALLY walk like a duck, I trust???
I got a little lost with some of the technicalities ( I never do well with medical acronyms!) but I got the general gist Ok and I think its fascinating.
I've seen a number of folks say that they lose the desire to cross-dress once on PM and I think I have to count myself amongst them, to some extent at least, although not to the same extent that it seems to have affected sfem - I still wear female trousers and jumpers/blouses when at home during the day but its been a long time since I've bothered with wig and makeup or wanted to go out dressed. I had actually assumed that to some extent, it was a case of once the freedom to do it was here, the grass on the other side no longer looked as green as it once was, it hadn't really occurred to me that it was a direct chemical reaction to the PM.
I'm not really sure how I feel about that thought now. Cross-dressing was never really about sex for me, but I did use to find that if I masturbated whilst dressed, I immediately afterwards HAD to get it all off, for reasons that I never understood, and I tried to avoid doing it if I could.
As of now, I do sometimes feel like putting on the whole deal, but somehow there are always more important things to do! I guess it is no longer an end in its own right - again, in past years I would find that whilst dressed, I couldn't bring myself to do the male type things that I would normally have done, whereas now, I do whatever needs doing irrespective of how I'm dressed - even to the extent of building a set of built-in wardrobes and installing them, whilst wearing ladies jeans, blouse, bra and medium heel wedge shoes.
That was not a deliberate overlaying of one role on another, I just got dressed in what felt comfortable and did what I had to do that weekend.I stopped PM for 4 weeks a few months ago and I don't recall an increased desire to - Literally as I was typing that half a sentence, something just hit me!! - I was going on to say, ..."cross-dress." However that's wrong and I never realised it before. For other reasons that I have no intention of going into, I stopped myself from cross-dressing back in early Feb. I'll admit that it was a lot easier to stop than I would have expected (so presumably that was the PM effect but I didn't realise), I literally just switched it off. Then in early July, towards the end of my 4 weeks PM abstinence, I felt the need for it again and made a concious decision to dress fully. The first week or so I did indeed go the whole hog and I also made arrangements to go to a wig salon and get a new one or two...but somehow I've never actually made that trip, nor put the whole lot on again...and that was after a couple of weeks back on PM.
So yep, I guess it is true, PM decreases the 'need' to cross-dress.
OH BTW.. Beverley... you don't REALLY walk like a duck, I trust???