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[–]sisterinsomnia 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I began studying this whole thing because of the quarantine and then spent quite a bit of time on various trans support sites. And I spotted the same thing! Anime, in particular, is much, much more common on those sites, a large number of posters have an anime pic of a toddler-looking girl's face attached to their handle and many of the memes use anime cartoons.

I have seen no studies of this, and it could of course be the case that these interests have something to do with generational cohorts and not with being drawn towards trans. But just from my experience it seems as if anime is playing some kind of a role here. Also, I have been told, certain types of porn where women are degraded.

[–]MarkTwainiac 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes, quite a number of prominent TIMs such as Andrea Long Chu and the Wachowskis (the guys who made the Matrix movies) have said outright that porn and "sissy porn" have made them trans, or caused them to realize they are trans.

[–]our_team_is_winning 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

said outright that porn and "sissy porn" have made them trans

You know how when you eat a certain food and it causes you pain or multiple runs to the toilet? You learn to avoid that food in the future. "Whacha doin' in there?" "Watching sissy porn. I think it's making me trans." "Maybe turn it off?"

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But stomach pains, the runs and other symptoms of indigestion are unpleasant and distressing. By contrast, the "gender euphoria" - meaning huge throbbing erections and super-duper orgasms - that these guys get from sissy porn and imagining themselves as female are by far the most thrilling and pleasurable experiences they've ever had in their lives. Hence, they want more of it, not less.