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A dominant woman and a submissive man practicing feminization. Feminization or feminisation, sometimes forced feminization (shortened to forcefem or forced femme), [1] [2] and also known as sissification, [3] is a practice in dominance and submission or kink subcultures, involving reversal of gender roles and making a submissive male take on a feminine role, which includes cross-dressing.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) – The four masters dress in women's clothes and coerce their male victims, clothed in wedding dresses, into same-sex marriage. Incorrigible (1975) – Victor Vauthier ( Jean-Paul Belmondo ) dresses up as a transvestite to expose his client's cheating husband, but is arrested by the police during a raid.
While most male cross-dressers utilize clothing associated with modern women, some are involved in subcultures that involve dressing as little girls [81] [82] or in vintage clothing. Some such men have written that they enjoy dressing as femininely as possible, so they wear frilly dresses with lace and ribbons, bridal gowns complete with veils ...
Other scenarios include infantilism and sissy maid. [citation needed] Clothing considered female include a bra, panties, tights, stockings, corset, petticoat, pinafore (often in the style of a French maid), dress (often extremely short or revealing, often with lock), skirt (often a mini/micro skirt), shoes (often Mary Janes or heels), etc.
In 1848, Ohio passed a law which prohibited its citizens from publicly presenting themselves "in a dress not belonging to his or her sex," and during the 1850s, over 40 cities in the US went on to pass anti-cross-dressing laws. [33] By the time the US entered WWI, over 150 cities had passed anti-cross-dressing ordinances. [34]
Frilly dresses with embellished puffy sleeves inspired by those worn by child fashion icons such as American filmstar Shirley Temple and British princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were popular with girls in the 1930s. Hemlines were shorter for younger girls and reached below the knee as they grew older.
Transvestic fetishism is a psychiatric diagnosis applied to people who are sexually aroused by the act of cross-dressing and experience significant distress or impairment – socially or occupationally – because of their behavior.
In clothing for men, a dickey (also dickie and dicky, and tuxedo front in the U.S.) is a type of shirtfront that is worn with black tie (tuxedo) and with white tie evening clothes. [1] The dickey is usually attached to the shirt collar and then tucked into the waistcoat or cummerbund. Some dickey designs have a trouser-button tab, meant to ...