“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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