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Here is my contribution to Autogynephilia Awareness Day. Shortly after I began assessing and researching men with paraphilias and gender identity disorders, I realized that empathy was not going to take me very far.
Either one feels sexual excitement at the thought of putting on women’s underwear, or touching a young child’s genitals, or showing one’s penis in public to strangers, or being bound and gagged - or one does not.
Empathy will not help you experience the same feelings. One comes to understand paraphilias and gender identity disorders the same way one comes to understand mathematics or history or geology - by studying and thinking.
It is, of course, possible to empathize with patients’ sadness, despair, and anger, because these are common emotions that most people have felt at some point, but that is different from understanding paraphilias and identity disorders through empathy.
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