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What the Media Tries To Hide
I was deeply moved by the kind & compassionate responses to my previous article on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. There was also quite a bit of discussion in the comment section about other causes of gender non-conforming behavior. The most common being autosexuality. This is an important issue and I want to delve into it.
First, I think it’s important to define a few things. Autosexuality is a polite term for an erotic fixation on the idea of being, or embodying characteristics of, the opposite sex. In males this typically takes the form of autogynephilia – imagining oneself as a woman – and in females it most frequently manifests as autohomoeroticism. The latter is when a biological woman becomes fixated on the idea of being a gay man. Autosexuality presents similarly in both sexes, but there are some notable differences. Males tend to primarily focus on the physical aspects of womanhood whereas females tend to focus on gay relationships.
The media has done its best to hide the mountain of evidence showing that autosexuality can drive gender non-conforming behavior. Dr. Michael Bailey’s book The Man Who Would be Queen contains references to males from the early 1900s who displayed autogynephilic tendencies.[1] The article “Conservative Men in Conservative Dresses” documents the author’s research into men who crossdress for erotic reasons.[2] Sites like TransWidowVoices.org contain stories from the frazzled ex-wives of transitioners, some of whom report that their partners were addicted to lesbian porn.[3] The banned Reddit sub r/itsafetish was filled with screenshots of male-to-females posting autosexual fantasies.[4]
Autosexuality used to be relatively uncommon among FTMs, but this has changed drastically over the last several years. There has been a clear shift in trans spaces: butch lesbians and “classic” RODG cases have become a bit less common (perhaps due to media coverage and resources such as Reddit’s detransition page) and females with autosexual fantasies have taken their place. Some autohomoerotic women show noticeably fewer signs of body dysmorphia and instead use terms like gender euphoria to describe the excitement they feel from presenting as (gay) men. Researchers have noted that most of these girls are chronic internet addicts who, before coming out as trans, spend large amounts of time posting fetish content on sites like Tumblr, Wattpad, and DeviantArt.[5]
I believe the main reason for why autohomoeroticism has become more common is that many young girls have had their sexuality slowly and steadily altered by social media & erotica. If this seems far-fetched, I think it’s fair to point out that multiple studies show genetic and biological factors are not the sole component in developing a homosexual orientation [6] – and the genetic role in autosexuality is likely far weaker. The imagery and stories that people consume matter. They can shape desires more than people might want to admit.
Fetish Grooming and the Trans Movement
A good friend of mine once pointed out that when someone is going through puberty there is a critical stage of sexual awakening – and during that time it’s possible to internalize specific fetishes due to being exposed to pornography or erotica. There is more evidence for this theory than people might expect. The personal histories of autogynephiles offer compelling evidence. A common starting point, at the age of 12 or so, is exposure to Rule 63 artwork. This is when an artist draws a gender swapped image of a popular cartoon character. This typically progresses to consuming “TG Captions” (if you ever want to start a fight in the LGBT space, ask people what they think of all those stories about genies turning bored middle-aged men into bodacious, nymphomaniac lesbians). Older male-to-females sometimes say that they remember reading sexually charged gender swap stories like Ray Heinlein’s 1970 book I Will Fear No Evil before they began cross-dressing. I’ve also personally seen autogynephiles admit that the content they produce can cause young boys to develop similar desires.
My friend termed this “fetish grooming” and argued that the same phenomenon can happen to young girls. There is an entire genre of “male x male fiction” that is being openly marketed to tween girls and it is very influential in the FTM space.
Heartstopper is a perfect example.
The series, centering on an intimate relationship between two teenage boys, has been heavily promoted. Barnes & Noble has given it display tables, cut outs, and social media coverage. One B&N even built a replica of the main character’s room and allowed people to take photos in it. Other stores had a program in which anyone who bought a copy was given a Heartstopper themed tote. Stores were told to promote it on their social media pages and pictures like this one circulated on Instagram and Facebook:
The series is also available at other chains such as Target and has been promoted by The New York Times.[7] I think it’s important for readers of this article to understand that this series – described by the NYT as a great love story – is a simple graphic novel:
Having spent a fair bit of time working at a Barnes & Noble, it is obvious that this series is targeted at young girls (predominantly age 12-14). Male x Male fiction is written and packaged in a distinctive way based off the maturity of the intended audience. Series aimed at young girls typically have bright covers and soft art styles. The storyline will often feature a character who has been carefully designed for the reader to identify with. This individual will be small, feminine, and lacking in confidence. The other romantic interest will be masculine, protective, and friendly. The relationship between the two characters will be awkward and, to some degree, the interaction between them will contain themes one would associate with a heterosexual relationship.
Books aimed at older girls shift away from the “pseudo-heterosexual” nature of earlier stories. These books typically show two characters who are similar in size and physicality. The cover art will be sharper and more mature. Other fetishes may be hinted at. Unstated themes are that straight men are boring, gay men are more sophisticated, and gay relationships are uniquely equal and magnanimous. The story’s theme will often have fantasy elements. Books like The Entanglement of Rival Wizards show this change:
The Slippery Slope: Not Always a Fallacy
Many readers of these novels start searching for more intense dopamine hits. Groups dedicated to male x male fiction have tens of thousands of members – nearly all of them natal females – and genres like “mpreg” (the impregnation of a male character) have vocal fans. Many begin writing and drawing their own content, which is shared in online echo chambers. This often progresses to cosplaying as male characters. A recent trend has been for young LGBT women to get caught cat-fishing people as “femboys” (this is a term for effeminate gay men).[8] Some go all the way and become female-to-male transsexuals.
The logical holes in all of this are obvious, but trans ideology has always been irrational. How can gender be fluid and someone have a “trans brain?” How can gender stereotypes be irrelevant social constructs yet used to define whether someone is trans? The movement compensates for this by promoting a persecution complex and covering up facts that “don’t fit.” Alternate explanations for why a teen girl might dissociate from her womanhood – such as depression, objectification, abuse, a history of being bullied, or porn addiction – are ignored. People who ask too many questions are accused of being anti-trans. There is a strong us vs them mindset.
This has an immense impact on the social lives of women who dabble in the community. Many female autosexuals purposefully avoid heterosexual men (especially white ones). I once saw a somewhat exasperated lesbian comment on this. She argued that many self-identified lesbians who are “K-pop and boy’s love fans” are actually straight women with kinks. She said they “wish they weren’t attracted to men, but clearly are.” Her main annoyance was with the fact that many of them go through a phase of political lesbianism. Over time these so-called lesbians tend to start identifying as “gay transmascs.” This often happens after they begin taking testosterone (which increases one’s sex drive).
Not all of them date other FTMs. The trans community encourages “T for T” – transgenders dating other transgenders – so it’s common for these women to date autogynephilic MTFs. This tends to end rather badly. The book Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies features numerous submissions from male-to-females that show a strong tendency towards narcissism.[9] Kitty Robinson’s book You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm contains stories from women who were abused by MTFs.[10] Some women find that their partners weaponize their own Leftist ideology against them. It’s not unheard of for female partners of MTFs to be guilt tripped into hiding bad behavior to avoid “giving transphobes ammunition.”
The best way to fix this would be through a major cultural shift. Society needs to stop ignoring the existence of autosexuality… and the process by which early exposure to fetish porn can cause and amplify it. It should be obvious that getting lost in self-insert fantasies of being a gay man is harmful to young women. It often starts out as a small “quirk” and slowly grows into a destructive, compulsive thought pattern that hinders their ability to live normal lives.
I genuinely believe that if competent, strong, and honorable leaders were in control of our nation that most autohomoerotic women would grow out of it. I have seen multiple young women in the detrans community describe their experience overcoming these fantasies – autosexuality does not have to be permanent. However, the lack of awareness about this issue means that typically only those who are exceptionally self-aware manage to put the pieces together. It’s clearly a lot easier to prevent a person from developing these fantasies than to change them once they’ve become embedded into one’s personal identity.
Notes
- J Michael Bailey. (2003). The Man Who Would be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism. Joseph Henry Press.
- Bloom, A. (2002). “Conservative Men in Conservative Dresses: The World of Cross- Dressers Is for the Most Part a World of Traditional Men, Traditional Marriages, and Truths Turned Inside Out.” https://childrenoftransitioners.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/consmenconsdresses-2-2.pdf
- Trans Widows Voices. (2022). Trans Widows Voices. https://www.transwidowsvoices.org/
- Rar Eddit. (2025). com. https://rareddit.com/r/itsafetish?w=1&o=1
- The Homoarchy (2016). Why are so many females coming out as trans/non-binary? https://thehomoarchy.com/increase-trans-females-nonbinary-dysphoria
- Långström, N., Rahman, Q., Carlström, E., & Lichtenstein, P. (2010). Genetic and environmental effects on same-sex sexual behavior: a population study of twins in Sweden. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39(1), 75–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-008-9386-1
- Zornosa, L. (2022, May 9). “Heartstopper” Is a TV Love Story With the Soul of a Comic. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/arts/television/heartstopper-netflix.html
- Reddit – The heart of the internet. (2025). Reddit.com. https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/comments/1jnqwpn/women_pretending_to_be_trans_to_pretend_to_be/
- Lawrence, A. A. (2013). Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism. New York, Ny Springer.
- Robinson, K. (2021). You Told Me You Were Different. https://archive.org/details/kitty-robinson-you-told-me-you-were-different-an-anthology-of-harm-ugly-truths-p/mode/2up
31 comments
Some things are so un-natural and repugnant that just thinking about them can ruin my day.
They still happen though.
It’s not enough to say that these insane people are being silly; we have to explain why they are there. Then maybe we can do something about having healthy girls instead.
These articles by Brooke are valuable. Thanks Brooke!
Thank you, Joe, glad you liked the article.
I think that, even though it might be a bit off-putting for some people, it’s important to get the word out about how autosexuality works. It’s almost never talked about in the mainstream media and trans ideologues go out of their way to obfuscate and deny its existence.
A very informative piece. I have a difficult time understanding why any girl or woman would want to be a man. They forfeit so many advantages built into our society. This phenomenon always appeared more social pressure based than anything else.
A feminine gay male wanting to be a woman is pretty easy to justify since they want to appeal to more than gay men. I feel the acceptance of a feminine male is somewhat easier for heterosexual men and women, except that they do present competition for women that they didn’t anticipate.
I am fascinated by the subject. Keep the stories coming.
A very informative piece. I have a difficult time understanding why any girl or woman would want to be a man. They forfeit so many advantages built into our society.
Thank you, if you’re interested in learning more about the mindset of young women who adopt trans identities then I’d definitely recommend this article:
https://thehomoarchy.com/increase-trans-females-nonbinary-dysphoria
[It’s somewhat dated, and doesn’t get into the autosexual / erotic fantasy element as much as it should, but it’s still quite good and focuses a lot on the social contagion & internet addiction elements].
A lot of these girls are very young, 12-14 (which can be a confusing, difficult time), and are not viewing these issues the way an adult would.
This phenomenon always appeared more social pressure based than anything else.
One of the sex researchers that I mentioned in the article, Dr. Bailey, has called it a “pathogenic meme” which, imo, is a good description.
I am fascinated by the subject. Keep the stories coming.
Thank you, if you have any questions feel free to ask and I’ll do my best to answer.
As for women wanting to be men, they assume it will be the other way around. It’s a safe bet that they’ve had the usual ideological brain-soaking which includes feminist rhetoric about male privilege. So they find it quite shocking that it doesn’t work that way.
Other than that, I’m hardly an insider, but it seems to me that feminine gay men are limiting their prospects with their presentation. They’re out there, but the masculine types are a lot more popular. This stands to reason, because gay guys like men who look like men.
You mention that there is a time during puberty when one is more likely to develop a fetish.
I think that happened to me.
When I was about 12 I discovered Benny Hill and the lovely Louise English – I still have a thing for women with slightly protruding canine teeth because of her.
It’s obvious there are many conflicting sexual confusions which exist in the youth of today. Relentless sexual imagery and scenarios cycling through their awareness all day long and it’s no wonder kids are becoming deformed, self-conscious, and perverse.
Just more of our natural psychology being infiltrated, harnessed, and steered into oblivion…
When I was about 12 I discovered Benny Hill and the lovely Louise English – I still have a thing for women with slightly protruding canine teeth because of her.
I think it’s pretty common for people to develop a “type” that’s inspired by their first crush. For some people it goes away after a bit and for others it lasts for years.
Great article! Whatever rationalizations you apply to this phenomenon, one should keep in mind that these are mentally-ill people. The jews have “normalized” this behavior through their dominance of the fields of psychology, and psychiatry. The jews have radicalized, and weaponized this small, deviant, and disgusting segment of society in order to develop another front in their war to destroy the white race. It takes great power, and money to endlessly nurture, and promote this sick behavior as admirable, and normal—a power which the jews possess! 🙃
“small, deviant, and disgusting segment of society”. I don’t think this description is particularly helpful as i). Auto sexuality is a growing element and ii). The New Right should see the beautiful potential instead of “fallen state”, but agree it is a symptom of the successful propoganda efforts of pro-trans groups beloved by the influential in the media.
This wave of what was formerly called transvestism, but then started being called transgenderism, was foreseen in the early 1990s by ex-gay movement leaders. Some had dabbled in transgenderism and had seen pop stars such as Michael Jackson, Boy George, and Annie Lennox as authenticating what could be their “true selves”. Their foresight has been validated. After Ellen DeGeneres and k.d. Lang’s televised kiss, acceptability of queerness was sealed and trans just followed in its wake.
One of the female ex-gay leaders rightfully stated how the feminine was very disdained in society – California was the place of the meeting back in the early 90s. Brooke has skillfully uncloaked the confused state we are in.
One of the female ex-gay leaders rightfully stated how the feminine was very disdained in society – California was the place of the meeting back in the early 90s. Brooke has skillfully uncloaked the confusion state we are in.
Thank you, one of the things that came to mind when I read that line was the term internalized misogyny. I don’t use it in the way radfems do (and I’d argue that radical feminism is part of the issue as it focuses so much on competing with men).
I see internalized misogyny as a way to describe how a good portion of young women who adopt trans / non-binary identities have come to believe negative ideas about what it means to be a woman. This can be caused by a whole variety of reasons (living in an unhealthy culture that embraces hypersexuality and excessive objectification in things like music videos, a history of abuse, lack of role models, etc.).
There’s theater, show business, where there has long been some tradition of what you’re talking about. And then, Jackson was a negroid pedophile targeting white children. I suspect Jackson’s ‘de-racializing’ and androgynous look was revolving in significant part around that.
Good piece by the author anyway. Scary.
I believe the main reason for why autohomoeroticism has become more common is that many young girls have had their sexuality slowly and steadily altered by social media & erotica
Glowing screens are programming brains along different pathways. The television obviously had some effect there too 30-40 years ago. Now it’s smartphones and TikTok, it’s on demand, 24/7 and extremely addictive. It’s actually enough to convince a vulnerable cohort, that they are something else, who then self-identify and communitize. Quite enough of an effect to increase numbers above what would be the expected the tiny natural signal on this. Trans today, in this form, is entirely a modern top-down phenomenon as far I can tell.
LGBT became the sign or shield of the corporate world against everyone else. It’s a mandatory overt position for global capital, the emblem of the wealth transfer, the consolidation of power.
The tech serves us too, but it is one of the great monsters of our age and its only going to get worse
Excellent article about a despicable type of child porn.
One minor correction. I think the writer means “Robert” not “Ray” Heinlein.
I would like to take a minute to discuss the fetish phenomenon a little, and certainly draw attention to mass marketing, media, pop culture and the other fruits of our modern culture of abundance, excess, and leisure.
I’m in my 50s, and have always had a “thing” for youthful, feminine, pretty women who smoke cigarettes. To be clear, not every woman who smokes gets my attention. There are even pretty young women who turn me off. It has to be a woman who apparats to have some class, and holds herself in a feminine way. I am not deep into this “fetish” like some men. (It’s a thing not unique to me). I don’t obsess over women smoking harsh, full flavor cigarettes. I don’t obsess over “dangling” cigarettes. I don’t focus on deep multiple inhales and all the other more intense aspects of this fetish. I prefer the woman I’m observing to be a casual smoker who doesn’t behave in the typical addictive, chain smoking way. In my mind, some cute college aged girl who may grab a cigarette and a glass of wine after a stressful day, sitting on a patio, gracefully holding her cigarette and blowing the smoke. Or sitting on a barstool, all dolled up and asking a gentleman for a light (think film noire).
As I’ve aged, I’ve been able to push a lot of the fetish out of my head. Smoking stinks. Most of the young women I knew in my youth have aged badly. It becomes more addictive and less casual as a woman goes from image conscious youth to “who gives a F&@$” middle aged. As such. The negative aspects of smoking and my rational mind are able to overcome it to some degree. Far fewer young women smoke these days than when I was young, and vapong doesn’t have the same appeal to me.
I know a lot of people reading this will be like “yuuuck” smoking is gross. And it is! There’s absolutely nothing attractive about it from a rational point of view. It’s all in my mind.
So where does it come from? It was definitely something impressed upon me as a “tweenager” when I first started noticing attractive women and girls. I know I had a neighbor who would sunbath in her bikini and smoke. I also saw a lot of social smoking in films where attractive women would ask a man for a light. There also used to be these glamorous Virginia Slim adds in magazines that presented very beautiful models in elegant dresses and stylish clothes, holding a cigarette.
If you go back far enough, smoking was very taboo with women, and associated with only trashy, very loose women.
Then, as is almost always the case, a Jew steps in and changes the culture:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Jewish marketing and propaganda. Think about it. How free are people who smoke? Freedom torches? Addiction isn’t freedom. It’s the very opposite of freedom. But the human mind is easily mailable.
One of the many vectors at which I arrived at being J conscious was through this “fetish” and trying to understand it.
We live in a time in history where people are bonvarded with messages, and we have so much liesure time to think about things other than basic survival and feeding a family. Jews learned to exploit this aspect of western society.
I am not one who is Jew obsessed by the way. I just understand Dr MacDonald’s thesis on Jewish evolutionary psychology. They only do what is natural for them.
Bernays and Jewish Hollywood may have amplified the erotic nature of smoking, but they didn’t invent the association with “sexual liberation.” Flappers came into existence on their own, and so too literary figures like Zola’s Nana and Bizet’s Carmen.
A good book to consult on this subject is Richard Klein’s “Cigarettes Are Sublime.” According to Klein, cigarettes embody the aesthetic concept of the sublime—a mix of beauty, pleasure, and terror. They are seductive for their ritualistic, sensual qualities (e.g., the act of smoking, the curling smoke) while simultaneously being deadly. Klein also sees cigarettes as paradigmatic of “modern” pleasures. They are not only artificial, mass produced, and globally disseminated, but carry a uniquely modern ambivalence, offering liberation and pleasure while flirting with mortality. Their sublime quality (beauty mixed with danger) is a modern invention, distinct from the more organic or socially integrated pleasures of antiquity.
How this relates to a fetish for women who smoke would take us into the deep waters of psychoanalytic theory. Let’s just say that the cathexis of a fetish indicates a failure of sublimation, the redirection of energy toward creative ends. Energy is invested, instead, in the thought-complex of a woman smoking.
Why so many young men in recent decades have fallen prey to fetish complexes likely has something to do with the reduced authority of the father figure in their lives, which in turn reflects the loss of fixed station and hereditary roles in modern times. The woman smoking is an image of power over the boy who fails to become full-fledged man in the mold of the father, and it points to the cultural death that accompanies devirilization.
Wanted to add to this post that I realize it isn’t directly related to the OP, but it does very much hit on the concept of mass cultural influences on our ideas of sexuality.
I find it amazing that 10-15 years ago, the drumbeat online was that gender and sexuality were “social constructs”, i.e that they aren’t actually real, but rather, society has created them and we all conform to societal expectations. The amazing reality is that the people who are grooming the next generation are actually the ones using social constructs to manipulate outcomes. Traditional gender and sexual conventions were organic and natural, whereas the LGBTQLMNOP construct is formulaic and fantastical, purely inventions of the mind that are propagated through social echo chambers.
They only do what is natural for them. And destructively unnatural for us. In other words, parasitism.
“You’ve come a long way, Baby.”
It sounds kind of condescending today, and Feminist marketing has certainly changed since 1968, but the Madison Avenue messaging is still the same as it always was. I’m old enough to remember when cigarette advertisements were banned on American television (1971).
Having been raised Mormon (LDS), the practice of smoking was the moral equivalent in our circles of defiling a sacred temple (in this case your body) with feces. The only person that my Mother tolerated smoking in our house was my Grandfather.
In fact, the preferred way for ex- or lapsed-Mormons to signal their thoughts on this in places like the Mormon Corridor was to roll their pack of smokes into their T-shirt like a Greaser from a bad 1950s coming-of-age movie. It signalled to everybody where you thought you stood ─ cool, defiant, and youthfully non-conformist.
Long before the Surgeon General’s warning in 1964, it was only very weird people that did not indulge in that delicious, cool, toasted and blended tobacco flavor, “now filtered for your health.”
According to the postwar advertising ─ and that’s gotta make it true, right ─ smoking was recommended by your family doctor to ward off colds and catarrh.
Basically, smoking was popularized because tailor-mades were distributed as morale-boosters to soldiers during World War I. And they worked to do just that for many people slogging in the trenches.
Smoking was not very lady-like, however, until women lighting up was popularized by Hollywood in the 1920s, and by demographically-targetted marketing from the tobacco industry.
My first real job was in a hospital in the 1970s, and the older people waddling around in the wards on oxygen tanks universally said that the best way to quit was to never start, and not to do it in the first place. Some of them were still going at it too.
I talked to a guy in the waiting room at the doctor’s office a few years ago who said that in 1964 when the Surgeon General’s warning came out, he was on the U.S. Olympic team. I don’t recall when he said that he quit, but he blamed his poor geriatric health on this one weird indulgence.
From the old lady at the Library with a handheld buzzer for a voice box, to the postmortem Yul Brynner anti-smoking ads on TV, I can’t think of one old person who ever said that they did not regret smoking.
Most who started smoking, especially when they were young, easily became addicted to the nicotine hit ─ and some who finally quit have described that as the worst addiction ever. Those under 18 aren’t even allowed to buy cigarettes in most states, but that is pretty hard to enforce consistently. Big excise taxes on smokes seem to discourage the sales.
Others who have made the change simply quit smoking one day and never returned to the vice. The nonagenarian actor, William Shatner said that after coming home from the Star Trek set in the 1960s, his young daughter told him that he stank, and so he just quit cold turkey after that. Others like Leonard Nimoy, who basically smoked for thirty years and died of COPD at the age of 83, said that quitting was like pulling teeth without anesthetic.
There is no doubt that smoking for women shot up when it was specifically marketed to them as “Liberation” in the Civil Rights era such as with the Virginia Slims advertisements like this one from 1968 (LINK).
At some point long after 1964 and the banning of cigarette commercials from TV, smoking ceased to be quite so cool with the youth, and the practice is now more the exception than the rule.
Hitler and the Nazis were against smoking in the 1930s. Hitler’s friend, the Bavarian photographer and art collector, Heinrich Hoffmann, whose assistant was a girl named Ewa Braun, said that smoking was just something that the Führer simply could not understand.
When the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed in Moscow in 1939, there were no pictures of Stalin not chain-smoking a cigarette. Stalin flicking ashes away was practically his trademark. Photographer Hoffmann who was there in Moscow, was asked to paint out the cigarettes held in Stalin’s hand or Hitler would not permit the historic treaty signing photographs to be published.
Nevertheless, during World War II it was decided that the degenerate Native American practice was already too ingrained in European culture and Hitler was persuaded that there should be no efforts to eliminate or to restrict smoking before the conclusion of the war. Thus German soldiers were issued rations of liquor (or cookies depending upon the soldier’s age), plenty of cigarettes, and plenty of condoms like everybody else. Americans never issued alcohol to their troops, and it is basically contraband aboard U.S. naval vessels, but American sailors were not so Puritan about tobacco and ice cream.
It is usually pointed out that wartime German anti-smoking attitudes were not “evidence based.” I vehemently disagree with that. It was indeed evidence-based, though maybe less obvious to those who indulged or were universally around those who lit up. There just were not rigorous epidemiogical studies at that time proving that cigarettes were directly causing cancer, heart disease, and so on.
Even after the U.S. Surgeon General’s warning became printed on packs of cigarettes in 1966 by law, there were still strong research interests systematically denying that smoking was going to kill you.
Funny story. My Dad’s father and stepfather were non-LDS and smoked like chimneys. My Dad hated the habit, and once when in a secure room near the Nevada Test Site where nuclear engineers like himself were looking at blueprints and secure data from atomic bomb tests in a sealed room where smoking was not permitted, some VIP general lit up a stogie anyway and many of the other officers soon followed suit. Without the ventilation typical of airliners in the 1970s in such secure spaces, my Dad starting to turn green around the gills and actually dressed down the colonels and generals and asked them to leave. Most people don’t get to tell their bosses that it’s either you or me.
Las Vegas had a lot of LDS engineers working there in those days, and the visiting VIPs stood down in this instance and apologized to him for breaking their own rules. Some of these VIP meetings in the 1960s were also held in “tiddy bars” off the Strip, and the waitresses were actually topless. My Dad said that he did not mind that so much.
Many of the actors who played in the TV series Mad Men about Madison Avenue marketing in the 1960s, said that the worst part of the acting for the show was the ubiquitous smoking. Even though the cigarettes were nicotine-free props, you were still inhaling the smoke like a rowdy teenager.
So, the point is that mass-media and advertsing has a strong effect on what people do as acceptable and “cool.”
It seems like cigarette smoking was an obvious one as being harmful to the public. It was not hard to normalize the practice with soldiers, with the vast majority of men having served in the military before the end of the Draft in 1973.
Smoking was also normalized for females, especially in the 1960s with messaging about Liberation from the Patriarchy. The idea that women had never been more chic and cool was additional Hollywood messaging from the Roaring 20’s. I always thought the Virginia Slims models were a bit frumpier than chic, like when the working girls on the Mary Tyler Moore show circa 1970 started wearing polyester pant suits instead of miniskirts. But the coming-of-age practice of smoking like the grown-ups do was supposed to be hip and cool for generations of school girls as well.
Today we suddenly have everybody sporting filthy tattoos over their arms and legs ─ not so much the face and hands, but that is probably coming. Basically we have created an environment somehow with the veneration of “numinous natives” or “modern primitives” from the Pacific islands and the media has made it aesthetic somehow. The African bone-in-the-nose piercing is coming too.
I think the normalization-of-deviance and what just a few years earlier would have been considered filthy and degenerate is a big concern ─ and it’s an important debate to have. I think it is an important question for White Nationalism in particular.
I’m usually skeptical of censorship calls, but I struggle to see any racial value whatsoever in White people getting inked up. Why are we permitting the lionization of stupid?
I don’t know if the Surgeon General’s warning and the ultimate banning of cigarette ads on American TV helped discourage the youth decades later from picking up the filthy habit ─ but there was no shortage of “evidence-based” scientific information supporting that smoking was not healthy in any sense, and yet it still took decades for this to change once it became normalized.
When smoking was banned in airplanes, restaurants, and public buildings in the 1990s, there was some Libertarian outrage at first. HR departments in the workplace at one time painstakingly created smoking sections in the corners of break rooms as though imbibing were a Constitutional Right and that nobody not right next to you could smell it.
But then, suddenly, smoking was banned everywhere, and the bosses did not like the idea or the “optics” of employees on break all the time huddled around the garbage dumpster getting their nicky fix. So they stopped hiring smokers.
“Corporate X is now a smoke-free workplace.”
It was pretty obvious to non-smokers who of their colleagues did indulge, even if they only did so at home. And it was also obvious to those who had successfully quit the habit, who of their peers still stinks.
Tobacco products were something that was ruthlessly marketed to Baby Boomers, and they got wise to it eventually ─ but yet again, this demographic was born into a preexisting world not of their own making. Zoomers are probably less likely to smoke today simply because their parents don’t.
Just as with the Virginia Slims ads that sold sleek and thin cigarettes to women with messaging about the practice being empowering and chic, you would use different propaganda to convince other demographics to buy the product.
Unfortunately, rational arguments seem to be the least convincing, especially where probabilities are involved
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There’s definitely something to imprinting. I could cite a number of anecdotal examples. One in particular was a girl who had a Michael Jackson poster on her wall at the formative time. Then she became a race mixer, and of course a single mother on welfare. Another case I heard about was someone who developed a preference for women who were either butch or very girly. It turns out he’d been reading a lot of manga at the formative time. Hopefully it didn’t give him yellow fever too!
So, what we can learn from this is to furnish some posters for your youth of a young celebrity who looks like someone you’d want to have for an in-law one day. No non-White nannies or babysitters either. Other than media, it’s also important to get them in the right environments and social circles. I can only assume that the forces who pushed Brown v. Board of Education behind the scenes knew what they were doing by mixing up the schools.
I don’t think autosexuality can be induced in people who aren’t already predisposed to it. It can be amplified by porn/cultural forces, but there is definitely a genetic component to it. I’ve heard of cases of men who secretly harbored AGP fantasies and ended up having an AGP child despite not having influenced him in that direction (most famously, Elon Musk has made jokes about being an anime girl and has an MTF child). There are also some MTFs who start cross-dressing in early childhood, and there are historical, pre-Internet precedents for non-homosexual MTF-adjacent phenomena. Autosexuality and homosexuality aren’t things you can “catch” through media exposure. Regular straight men could develop a thing for women with cigarettes like the commenter above, but they’re not going to suddenly start craving men or wanting to castrate themselves because of a cartoon. Of course this doesn’t mean AGPs are destined to be trans. Most are capable of having normal straight lives. Extremely severe AGPs are rare.
You might respond that female sexuality is more fluid–personally, I don’t think most of these girls are actually experiencing autosexual thought processes or that their sexual orientation can be said to have been altered. The mere fact of wanting to be in a gay male relationship doesn’t necessarily indicate autosexuality. Straight men and heterosexuality in general scare these girls for various reasons, and they see wholesome depictions of gay male relationships in pop culture and find them cute. Most could easily snap out of it, imo.
Having said that, I’m in agreement that we need to limit young people’s exposure to these things to avoid giving them misleading notions and sending them down the wrong path.
I don’t think autosexuality can be induced in people who aren’t already predisposed to it. It can be amplified by porn/cultural forces, but there is definitely a genetic component to it.
Tbh, while I think there is some genetic inclination involved in autosexuality (especially in men) the explosion in the number of women involved in this subculture doesn’t fit what one would expect if this was primarily due to genetics. There are multiple factors and, from what I’ve seen, getting involved in an internet based subculture + exposure to fetishistic stories at a critical stage of development are the most important.
There are also some MTFs who start cross-dressing in early childhood
Those are self-reported claims and many AGPs see pre-pubescant cross-sex behavior as proof that their motivations aren’t sexual.
As far as I know, Ray Blanchard’s research shows most AGPs start engaging in cross-sex behavior during puberty. He claims that homosexual transsexuals are more likely to display gender atypical behavior before puberty.
However, even among children who display cross-sex behavior before puberty, more than 80% will grow out of their dysphoria if they are not affirmed and medicalized:
https://acpeds.org/gender-dysphoria-in-children/
Trans ideology operates on a lot of emotionally manipulative claims, and one of the biggest (mostly the work of melodramatic AGP males) is that dysphoria is always permanent and only gets worse without medical treatment. They try to bury evidence showing that, if someone works on healing their relationship to their biological gender, that they can often improve the negative feelings they are experiencing.
Straight men and heterosexuality in general scare these girls for various reasons,
There absolutely are trans identifying women who are scared of straight men, sometimes due to things like a history of abuse, but that is often a different phenomenon than autohomoeroticism.
There can sometimes be overlap though. There used to be a member of r/detrans (an extremely brave young woman) who described how she developed a severe porn addiction and autohomoerotic fantasies after being sexually abused at a young age.
This is not completely unexpected though, as sexual abuse survivors often develop hypersexual tendencies:
https://youtube.com/shorts/yvHhkjeMqvI?feature=shared
they see wholesome depictions of gay male relationships in pop culture and find them cute. Most could easily snap out of it, imo.
I’m not talking about women with gay friends who occasionally buy one of these books. My focus is on women who read MxM fiction for erotic reasons and whose interests become more extreme over time. I could have posted links with explicit examples but I wanted the article to be something that could be shared with “normies.”
As for the ease of snapping out of it… I think it’s at least as hard for them as it is for a dysmorphic tomboy turned ROGD case because, whenever something has a sexual component, there is a dopamine reward for engaging in it.
“the explosion in the number of women involved in this subculture doesn’t fit what one would expect if this was primarily due to genetics.” Yes I think FTM transition is generally the product of social/cultural influences. And while all non-HSTS MTFs have an innate predisposition toward AGP, most only make the decision to transition because all their friends are doing it and they get hooked on trans porn.
“Ray Blanchard’s research shows most AGPs start engaging in cross-sex behavior during puberty.” This is definitely true for the vast majority. I only pointed out the exceptions because they are proof that not all AGP behavior is caused by porn exposure. Perhaps not “early” childhood but it can start as early as 7 or 8. (The MTF child who was on the cover of National Geographic is an early-onset AGP, albeit with a woke mother who encouraged his cross-dressing.)
I still question how many of these girls are actually experiencing autosexuality, but I suppose the ones who are addicted to more hardcore materials and have no other erotic interests probably are.
We’re basically in agreement so I’m possibly being a bit pedantic…just wanted to push back against the popular notion that the mechanisms behind homosexuality and autosexuality can be environmentally transmitted.
I still question how many of these girls are actually experiencing autosexuality, but I suppose the ones who are addicted to more hardcore materials and have no other erotic interests probably are.
If you’re interested, I’d recommend checking out this r/detrans thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/s/c2hMyO5wYg
One of the comments is by a lesbian who says she sees autohomoeroticism / autoandrophilia as being behind the FtM social contagion, another is by a woman who says she got into yaoi after being sexually traumatized by a woman (probably the 5th such example that I’ve seen), and another is from a woman who said she felt that people didn’t take her seriously in trans spaces since she wasn’t into MxM fiction.
The trans movement has changed a lot over the last few years. 5 years ago there was a lot more talk about dysmorphia-like feelings and having an inner essence different than one’s physical body & fewer fujoshis.
Whatever happened to the ‘tall, dark, and handsome’ men wanted by woman in the 2000’s when george clooney was still popular? I appreciate these articles by Brooke and hope it’s the start of more to come, but sequencing the human genome feels like less of a headache then untangling and understanding these bizarre sexual identity markers and kinks or whatever they’re called. The War on Gender by Claire Randall is a book I recommend from a trans Brit very much against the transgender, really ‘trans’ trender ideology, that’s pushed onto young people by very cruel and manipulative forces from above. Jackie O of the Australian Kyle and Jackie O radio show once confessed that when she’s fantasizing, going solo, she imagines that she’s the man fucking another woman, and several women called in to say they do they same thing and all thought they were the only ones who do this, so I guess it and other unusual non-criminal sexual behaviors are a lot more common than we initially thought.
I’m glad to see someone on the real-right side of things writing about these subjects; I suspect that, for some of us of an older generation, the absurdity of it all is just too much to bear and disallows our doing much more than building walls and flatly refusing to humor the purveyors of such obviously false shit. But that doesn’t much help those who have been, or are in the process of being, duped.
You’re “doing the Lord’s work.” Keep it up, Brooke!
Thank you, James! I deeply appreciate that!
Victorian literature can be assumed to be squeaky clean, and no other kind of negative messages. There’s plenty of that, and some of it is classic. I’m pretty sure that Regency romances are also G-rated.
Excellent, excellent work!! Utter insanity, on one level, but Brooke has masterfully broken it down into comprehensible definitions. (Well, almost comprehensible; because this entire “gender” insanity trend is difficult to fathom.)
Two quick points: I was a librarian earlier in life, and recently returned for a volunteer stint at a public library in an, until recently, 95%+ White small town. I can attest that even here, in a heavily Catholic area, the genre described by Brooke is on full, ostentatious display in the “teen” section of the local library, with a softer, cozier version of “gender” madness on full display in the children’s section, for even the youngest of readers. Not to mention, picture books that are LBGT+ subversion aimed at the very, very young child at the pre-reading stage, where parents still read books to them at bedtime. The month of June is cause for books celebrating this madness to be on full display in every section of the library, including non-fiction.
Finally, the propaganda of homosexual men as chic, interesting, intelligent, kind and sweet in nature — you know, fun, happy, “gay”! — has been highly effective even in women my age, who should have known better when the programming went into full gear.
I forgot to mention in an earlier comment a genre of book that I noticed in the library about 20 years ago. It seemed to be targeted at women in their thirties. It was a category of light fiction in which the female protagonist was a young single woman, usually with a creative or artistic career. The character was always quirky and intelligent (and somehow completely unaware of just how darned pretty she was!) and she would have a devoted, homosexual male as her best friend. Straight woman + “gay” male, in a close but platonic relationship. Enter Alpha Male who was madly in love with the quirky female — not for her looks, but because she was just so special — and he would mistake “gay” BFF for competition. Comical misunderstandings would ensue; until, of course, everything was ‘straightened’ out (except the BFF) and true love conquered all! Perhaps this genre is now considered obsolete, but I noticed it at the library when my work exposed me to mass market fiction.
For those who are old enough to remember the British pop sensation, Boy George, he was an early harbinger of the sort of freaky transsexual male presentation we see today. It is noteworthy that in an interview he mentioned that his most devoted and besotted fans were women.
These cultural debates never game steam if the names keep getting changed… autosexuality, autogynephilia and the like are bad replacements for old terms like crossdressing, transvestites, kinkiness, ‘drag’ etc. The LGBT community does it as well and keep adding extra letters so that they will soon roll into the Cyrillic alphabet. One can never psychoanalyze and imagine the motivations of a giant heterogenous group. It is also a fail to lump heterosexuals with demanding sex drives and wanting to play the field with those who barely any drive. And narcissism has lost meaning. Nowadays anytime someone doesn’t get their way they claim they have been dealing with a ‘narcissist’ and there a millions of blogs and self-published books to help them explain away their contributions.
The increase is largely within teenagers. But every generation of teens has a mix of rebels, depressed and confused types who embrace whatever new social thing has come along. At the same time, who would have though #TradWives would have ever caught on (though I think a chunk of them will revert back to feminism once they get a ring and a chance to threaten divorce as relationship leverage). Since teenagers are so volatile it is important not to steer them while they try to figure themselves out.
The LGB groups tell a narrative of ‘born this way’. The other side speaks of social media contagion. Rarely discussed are the changes in expectations of women and men in general, and if this contributes. In the past 30 years women expect more and more from men and receive innumerable messages that it is fine to not have a family, and hey, maybe being with another woman who feels the same way is the better option. One of them opts to be a male, but better than those awful guys who might like Trump, or the like.
Steve Sailer has a great old article, “Why Lesbians Aren’t Gay”, that really underlines that despite the infinite number of rainbow flavors, men are men and women are women when you look at a lot of the remaining interests and personality traits.
My short version: The media and blogosphere bombards everyone with reasons for men and women to NOT get along. The manosphere can be obnoxious and demeaning to women. But I’d say women’s groups are more numerous and have unrealistic expectations of guys pre and post marriage. If we can’t foster men and women getting along better, they will just increasingly self-assort, and we will find creative names to describe the varied and ever evolving phenom.
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