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[–]fuck_reddit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They wouldn't have Autogynephilia (AGP: love of being a woman in a sexual way) but Autoandrophilia (love of being a man in a sexual way). So AAP (?) I believe the pop-culture term tho is Fujoshi.

[–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think you are right in how you interpreted that, but it looks like Blanchard is arguing that autoandrophilia is not really a thing in the same way, because the qualities of it (fetishization of homosexuals of the opposite sex) are quite different for men vs. woman. Although arguably he could be splitting hairs. I replied to another comment about his term for it, "autoeroticism", being the female version.

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

I generally agree, I believe much of the "fujoshi" (for lack of a better term) group is motivated more by a desire for gay men than a desire to be a gay man. Autogynephilia would be the desire to be a woman for sexual gratification (and so autoandrophilia the desire to be a man sexually).