Cross-Dressing
A psychosexual disorder usually characterized by a persistent, often compulsive, urge to wear clothes of the opposite sex as a means of achieving sexual excitement. Also known as: transvestism.
It is usually observed among basically heterosexual males whose sexual experience with women is limited, and who may have occasionally engaged in homosexual acts. In many cases, their mothers dressed them as girls in childhood, because their mother (or father) wanted a girl child. In some instances, cross-dressing was used as a petticoat (or pinafore) punishment.
Transvestism: A dependence on cross-dressing. Behaviorally the act of dressing in the clothes of the opposite sex, psychologically the condition of feeling compelled to cross-dress, often in relation to sexual arousal.
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