Extremely feminine attire may be incorporated, including pink, frilly dresses that resemble a variation on children’s clothing with an added sexualized element, like high heels or a garter belt. The fundamental assertion of sissification pornography is that being a woman is inherently degrading - that men who are insecure about the size of their genitalia must be transformed into women through “forced feminization.” In these scenarios, the penis is referred to as a “clitty,” and the anus is referred to as a “pussy.” Prostate orgasms are referred to as “sissygasms.” Often, men who produce this content, as well as those who use it, implement a device called a “chastity cage” which prevents erections, and anal plugs are used to stretch the anus in an attempt to resemble a vulva.

Getting f*cked makes you female because f*cked is what a female is.” At the center of sissy porn lies the asshole, a kind of universal vagina through which femaleness can always be accessed. This makes sissy porn a kind of metapornography, that is, porn about what happens to you when you watch porn. Captions further instruct viewers to understand that the very act of looking at sissy porn itself constitutes an act of sexual degradation, with the implication that, whether they like it or not, viewers will inevitably be transformed into females themselves. “Sissy porn’s central conceit is that the women it depicts are in fact former men who have been feminized (‘sissified’) by being forced to wear makeup, wear lingerie, and perform acts of sexual submission. In his book Females, trans-identifying male writer, Andrea Long Chu, writes: Just by listening to me right now you have already become a woman.” The speaker then directs the viewer to shave his legs, paint his fingernails, and to “feminize” himself.Īster concludes that “it is possible to conceive of this video as drawing out a suppressed identification, encouraging transition, as well as acknowledging the already present reality of womanhood”. You’ve always been a girl, haven’t you?” Then, “You’ve been a woman longer than you’ve ever known,” and, “You are a woman right now. Mantras are repeated - often a variation of “you are the girl,” commanding the viewer to imagine themselves as female.Īster uses specific videos as examples, citing one in particular, referred to as “Video 2,” which opens with a woman repeating, “You’re not really a man. In the article, Aster defines sissification and feminization as “forms of gender play in which the subject takes on the dress of the “opposite gender” and explains that “sissy is also claimed by trans women as an identity.” Aster then goes on to describe how sissy hypno videos, especially those made by men who identify as trans, instruct men to transform into women (though the pornography industry term “girl” is often used instead). A male who identifies as a woman, Aster’s student profile describes his dissertation as centered on “online pornography fan communities, specifically fans who create their own pornography through remixing and re-editing available material found online,” and states he has presented research on trans and “micropornography” at the National Women’s Studies Association. student in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas.

In May, Duke University’s Transgender Studies Quarterly published an academic article titled, “Sissy Remix: Trans Porno Remix and Constructing the Trans Subject,” by Aster Gilbert, a Ph.D. Though sissy hypno as a term seems to have only gained popularity recently - increasing significantly since 2016 according to Google search data - there are already several websites dedicated to the genre, including, sissy.tube, and.

The pornography typically involves men wearing lingerie and engaged in “forced feminization” - eroticizing the illusion of being made to “become women” through dress, makeup, and sexual submissiveness, and the fetishizing of the humiliation this brings. “Sissy hypno” - a shortening of “sissification hypnosis” - is a term for pornography targeted at men that can be found online in three main forms: pornographic videos, audio files, and captioned images. According to Pornhub’s metadata, both “trans” and “transgender” porn searches have more than quadrupled in the three years between 2014 to 2017 and, by 2018, “trans” was ranked the fifth highest search term of the year.ĭuring this same period, a subset of transgender pornography emerged, and increased in popularity and prevalence. In recent years, trans pornography has soared in popularity.

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