transvestophilia

English

Noun

transvestophilia (uncountable)

1. Sexual arousal from transvestism.
   • 1986, John Money, Lovemaps, page 66:

     The state of transvestophilia is either extremely rare or nonexistent in women. Transvestophilia is only secondarily a fetishistic syndrome. Primarily it is one of the gender-transposition syndromes.

   • 1999, Robert T. Ammerman, Michel Hersen, Cynthia G. Last, Handbook of Prescriptive Treatments for Children and Adolescents:

     Onset of transvestophilia is retrospectively dated to peripuberty or later, although fascination with female clothing may be dated to an earlier age, frequently age 8 or younger.

Related terms

• transvestophile