# Do you find cross-dressing attractive in your preferred gender?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-cross-dressing-attractive-in-your-preferred-gender/475151>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 1, 2008, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-cross-dressing-attractive-in-your-preferred-gender/475151 "2008-12-01T06:00:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-cross-dressing-attractive-in-your-preferred-gender/475151/41 "2008-12-01T23:58:36Z")

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Not-straight guy, an no. Men in dresses just confuse me, and women in suits and ties are odd.

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**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-cross-dressing-attractive-in-your-preferred-gender/475151/42 "2008-12-02T00:05:21Z")

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Straight woman here.  
Doesn’t do a thing for me. Can’t really see the appeal.

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**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-cross-dressing-attractive-in-your-preferred-gender/475151/43 "2008-12-02T00:12:24Z")

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93% straight woman.

Male cross-dressing is wonderful if it’s of the androgynous variety. Super-realistic, trying-too-hard cross-dressing, or anything with boobs, is not attractive to me.

Female cross-dressing–that’s the other 7%.😃

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**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-cross-dressing-attractive-in-your-preferred-gender/475151/44 "2008-12-02T00:32:17Z")

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Gay male.

Women have absconded with mens’ clothes and it wouldn’t strike me as strange, unless she were wearing a man’s suit exactly as a man would - buttoned collar & tie.

A man wearing women’s clothes just doesn’t work. It’s transvetism or transgender, very clearly.

A woman wearing a man’s clothes is just wearing clothes. A man wearing a woman’s clothes is cross-dressing and apparently wants to present as a woman.

I’m not sure women can actually cross-dress, unless they put on a jock-strap, or the buttoned up shirt & tie mentioned above.

Anyway, a woman wearing a man’s clothes is fine. “Attractive” if you will. A man wearing a woman’s clothes is a deep, deep, deep turn off.

Kilts are okay though. Go figure.

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