Feminization (activity)

A picture of a standing woman, seen from the neck and down, wearing high-heeled boots and an open jacket with a see-through bra underneath, and holding a leash connected to a collar around a kneeling, cross-dressing man's neck; his attire includes a bra, a corset, jewelry and make-up.
A dominant woman and a submissive man practicing feminization

Feminization or feminisation (see spelling differences), 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. Subsets of the practice include "sissy training" and variations thereof, where the submissive male is "trained" to become feminine.

Feminization as a sexual fetish is not the same thing as being a transgender woman, and the submissive partners engaging in it are typically heterosexual men. It has been speculated that the fetish is rooted in societal pressure for men to be traditionally masculine.[4]

  1. ^ Parks-Ramage, Jonathan (2016-08-08). "Das geheime Leben von Crossdressern". Vice (in German). Vice Media. Archived from the original on 2020-09-16. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  2. ^ Fischer, Nancy L.; Seidman, Steven (2016). Introducing the New Sexuality Studies (3rd ed.). Routledge. p. 351. ISBN 9781317449188.
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