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[–]Femaleisnthateful 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I personally don't have a problem with describing AGP as a sexual orientation. I haven't delved extensively into Blanchard and Bailey's work on it, but I understand it as an inversion of heterosexuality.

The problem arises from queer theorists and transactivists denying the existence of AGP and conflating the experience of it with the experience of actually being a woman.

Will keep an eye out for you in the news.

[–]slushpilot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I guess the argument is that AGP is technically a paraphilia and not an orientation.

I've thought about this too: is a preference for solo masturbation (an aversion to intimate relationships with others) an orientation or a sexuality? Technically it could be defined as who you want to have sex with (self-love) but the reasons behind it might actually be more significant than the manifestation.

Perhaps different reasons, like trauma, all lead to the same thing, and those things are what actually needs to be addressed and explored. But I don't know, I'm not an expert.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the argument is that AGP is technically a paraphilia and not an orientation

Yes, but Blanchard's typology makes sense in this context when you realize that the paraphilia becomes all-consuming to the point of eclipsing the primary orientation - i.e. why we see so many extreme, hyper-performative examples of heterosexual father-of-five, longtime-married AGPs troon out in cartoonish fashion and end up engaging in sex acts with men to validate the "identity".

Of course lesbians are the ultimate validation, but a large proportion of the worst-affected seem to be willing to take whatever sexually-based validation they can get, so long as they are in the conceptual role of "woman". These males are not suddenly bisexual; on the contrary, this would seem to indicate the extreme levels to which many of them have objectified the conceptual (and real-world) "woman", that they in turn act out this performative role assumption.

[–]soundsituation 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've thought about this too: is a preference for solo masturbation (an aversion to intimate relationships with others) an orientation or a sexuality?

It's an avoidant attachment style, if it's really caused by the aversion to intimacy.