The appeal of transgender pornography, especially involving “pre-op”(erative) trans women, has steadily increased placing it in the top six most searched categories. In this paper I explore one unconscious function of the “pre-op” trans woman sexual fantasy that I have observed in some young heterosexual gynandromorphophilic men (i.e., men sexually drawn to the MtF “pre-op” body) who use transgender pornography and/or escorts. In contrast to a psychoanalytic reading of gynandromorphophilia in which the “pre-op” trans woman’s body is understood to be “missing nothing” because she has breasts and a penis, I suggest that what is psychically compelling and sexually arousing for some men is quite the opposite: because the “pre-op” trans woman has a penis, she therefore has no vagina/womb. It is the triumph over what is missing and that should be there. The penis in lieu of the vagina/womb is evidence of her damaged procreative potential. In these cases, I propose that the sexual preference exposes the man’s underlying womb envy. The “pre-op” trans woman is projectively identified with a felt-to-be “infertile” part of the man. The phantasized damaged woman’s procreative body temporarily relieves the man of his sense of inadequacy and anxieties about his capacity to create and enliven. I illustrate this dynamic with clinical examples.

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关于不拥有一切：探索异性恋男性对跨性别女性的迷恋


跨性别色情内容，尤其是涉及“手术前”跨性别女性的吸引力稳步上升，跻身搜索量最高的六大类别之列。在本文中，我探讨了“术前”跨性别女性性幻想的一种无意识功能，这种幻想是我在一些年轻的异性恋雌雄同体男性（即对 MtF“术前”身体产生性吸引的男性）中观察到的，他们使用跨性别色情内容和/或护送。与精神分析对两性恋的解读相反，在这种解读中，“术前”跨性别女性的身体被理解为“什么都不缺”，因为她有乳房和阴茎，我认为，对一些男性来说，在心理上引人注目和性唤起的东西是相当重要的。相反：因为“手术前”跨性别女性有阴茎，因此她没有阴道/子宫。这是对缺失的东西和应该存在的东西的胜利。阴茎代替阴道/子宫是她生殖潜力受损的证据。在这些情况下，我认为性偏好暴露了男人潜在的子宫嫉妒。 “手术前”的跨性别女性被投射地认为是男性身上感觉“不育”的部分。幻想中受损的女人的生殖身体暂时缓解了男人的不足感以及对自己创造和活跃能力的焦虑。我用临床例子来说明这种动态。