Social Autogynephilia and Schadenfreude.

Autogynephilia is ‘a man’s propensity to be sexually aroused at the thought or image of himself as a woman’. For many practical purposes we might restate that as ‘a man’s overwhelming desire to be a woman’, to ‘become that which he loves’ and so on. It is a man’s deeply-felt identification with the object of his desire. So what might social autogynephilia be?       Dr Ray Blanchard, in his seminal work on this, described the mechanisms through which autogynephilia (AGP) works. It comes in three sexualities: heterosexual, attracted to femininity; pseudo-bisexual, attracted to both femininity and masculinity, but typically only after transition; and analloerotic. These last are sometimes called ‘asexual’ and might even consider themselves to be so, but they are not; in fact their sexual partners are themselves. They do not interact sexually with other people. (Note here that AGPs are NEVER homosexual, that is, ‘exclusively attrac