Thanks for this post, Zack. I am a 50 year old Indian-American AGP man who grew up in India and then moved to the US for graduate studies. Coming across Blanchard’s work saved my life twenty years ago.
Sometimes I feel guilty about not doing enough to defend Blanchard’s model and fight the gender-identity / transition activism. But other obsessions took precedence—namely, computer science, poker and stock markets. Very typical feminine interests. LOL.
A couple of ideas I have thought much about but have not seen discussed enough.
First, is there a strong correlation between a combination of personality traits—let’s say high IQ, high neuroticism, high openness, high introversion (I am describing myself) -- and AGP pre-disposition? Such a combination could explain the internalization of erotic target.
Second, how about the root causal explanation being a lack of “mounting” / “top” / sexually aggressive behavior? Could sexual submissiveness (bottom behavior) when combined with gynephilia lead to erotic object internalization? When we as gynephiles are sexually triggered by femininity—body, behavior, clothes, accessories—but lack the biological code to act in a male-typical way, instead of trying to get control over the female body, do we internalize and desire to become our sexual object?
A couple of my close relatives are gay bottoms and asexual. No one has reported to be AGP, but what if the root “bug” of gay bottom men / asexual men / AGP men are the same lack of top behavior and the three sexualities are just three variations of the same “bug” with different sexual triggers—andro stimuli, gyne stimuli, no stimulus works?
An easy refutation of this hypothesis would be lots of examples of AGP gynephile men who are ALSO very natural / comfortable tops. But based on my limited research, I have not seen enough data / stories that support either the hypothesis or refutation. I personally always struggled and had to incorporate AGP fantasies into the act. I noticed you mentioned “performance difficulties” as well in one of your posts. My ideal sexual fantasies that involve other individuals are femme-femme cis/trans lesbian fantasies.
Thanks for this post, Zack. I am a 50 year old Indian-American AGP man who grew up in India and then moved to the US for graduate studies. Coming across Blanchard’s work saved my life twenty years ago.
Sometimes I feel guilty about not doing enough to defend Blanchard’s model and fight the gender-identity / transition activism. But other obsessions took precedence—namely, computer science, poker and stock markets. Very typical feminine interests. LOL.
A couple of ideas I have thought much about but have not seen discussed enough.
First, is there a strong correlation between a combination of personality traits—let’s say high IQ, high neuroticism, high openness, high introversion (I am describing myself) -- and AGP pre-disposition? Such a combination could explain the internalization of erotic target.
Second, how about the root causal explanation being a lack of “mounting” / “top” / sexually aggressive behavior? Could sexual submissiveness (bottom behavior) when combined with gynephilia lead to erotic object internalization? When we as gynephiles are sexually triggered by femininity—body, behavior, clothes, accessories—but lack the biological code to act in a male-typical way, instead of trying to get control over the female body, do we internalize and desire to become our sexual object?
A couple of my close relatives are gay bottoms and asexual. No one has reported to be AGP, but what if the root “bug” of gay bottom men / asexual men / AGP men are the same lack of top behavior and the three sexualities are just three variations of the same “bug” with different sexual triggers—andro stimuli, gyne stimuli, no stimulus works?
An easy refutation of this hypothesis would be lots of examples of AGP gynephile men who are ALSO very natural / comfortable tops. But based on my limited research, I have not seen enough data / stories that support either the hypothesis or refutation. I personally always struggled and had to incorporate AGP fantasies into the act. I noticed you mentioned “performance difficulties” as well in one of your posts. My ideal sexual fantasies that involve other individuals are femme-femme cis/trans lesbian fantasies.