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Transvestism

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transvestism: see homosexuality homosexuality, a term created by 19th cent. theorists to describe a sexual and emotional interest in members of one's own sex. Today a person is often said to have a homosexual or a heterosexual orientation, a description intended to defuse some of the long-standing
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Transvestism
Klinger, Cpl.
dresses in women’s clothes to try to win discharge from the army. [Am. TV: M ° A ° S ° H in Terrace]
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Phantoms" tackles several edgy issues--the effects of disability on a relationship, class differences in a lesbian community, amputation as a sexual fetish, bisexuality, transvestism, BDSM--with sensitivity as well as irony.
C'est la Guerre by Roberta, Jean / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
The original Rocky Horror Show, first produced in 1973, includes transvestism, bisexuality, seedy sex acts, plus Rayner, prettily posing in a tight-fitting pair of gold trunks.
It all began with some skin-tight gold pants! by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Young male lizards in South Africa imitate females to fool aggressive older males into leaving them alone, in an example of transvestism in the natural world, researchers have found.
Ladyboy lizards use transvestite trickery: researchers by AFP / AFP Global Edition
 
 
 
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