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Posted by alienatari on May 22, 2005, at 8:03:22
Now If I was taking this med, it would explain why I like womens clothes so much ;) hehe j/k I dont wear womens clothes... not yet anyway :D hehe
http://www.selegiline.com/fetishism.htmlReversible transvestic fetishism in a man with
Parkinson's disease treated with selegiline
by
Riley DE.
Department of Neurology,
University Hospitals of Cleveland,
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine,
Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.
David.Riley@uhhs.com
Clin Neuropharmacol 2002 Jul-Aug;25(4):234-7ABSTRACT
Dopaminergic therapy in patients with Parkinson's disease may change the quality as well as the quantity of sexual interest and behavior. This 72-year-old man had a 37-year history of Parkinson's disease treated with a right thalamotomy and was later treated with levodopa for more than 20 years. Selegiline (5 mg twice daily) was added for motor fluctuations. He developed a frequent impulse to wear women's clothing but did not act on this impulse until his wife died over a year later. He then began to dress in women's clothing an average of once per week. He stated he had never thought of cross-dressing previously. The selegiline was stopped, and his urge to wear women's clothing ceased. Paraphilias are a rare behavioral complication of Parkinson's disease treatment. Other paraphilias have been attributed to dopamine agonists, suggesting that the action of the monoamine oxidase inhibitor responsible for the patient's transvestism in this case was dopamine potentiation. Drug-induced paraphilias and hypersexuality may represent a reversal of the putative premorbid Parkinson's disease personality traits of introversion, cautious behavior, and lack of "novelty-seeking." A biologic basis for transvestism, and paraphilias in general, is not known. Rare clues emerge from cases similar to this one.
Posted by Larry Hoover on May 22, 2005, at 16:08:40
In reply to Selegiline and Reversible transvestic fetishism, posted by alienatari on May 22, 2005, at 8:03:22
> Now If I was taking this med, it would explain why I like womens clothes so much ;) hehe j/k I dont wear womens clothes... not yet anyway :D hehe
I misread the header, and thought you wrote *reverse* transvestic fetishism, and I was wondering what the heck *that* might be.
I like women's clothes, too. I don't like to wear them, but I like to take them off. ;-)
>history of Parkinson's disease treated with a right thalamotomy
Interesting, but they do not place any weight on the psychosurgical aspect. Selegiline is not the only independent variable.
Lar
Posted by alienatari on May 22, 2005, at 20:20:02
In reply to Re: Selegiline and Reversible transvestic fetishism » alienatari, posted by Larry Hoover on May 22, 2005, at 16:08:40
Well I'm gay so I dont really like womens clothes hehe. Well I mean i appreciate the way they look, just not on me. Some of my friends that are guys wear womens clothing. I know a drag queen. Another friend of mine, Michael, does shows at the Imperial (its an ok gay nightclub). It was kind of made famous because it was in the movie "Priscilla queen of the desert". That was the main club they used. Oh wait, my friend Mustafa is into drag too I forgot lol. Ok I'm rambling hehe.
cross-dressing rocks!!!
> > Now If I was taking this med, it would explain why I like womens clothes so much ;) hehe j/k I dont wear womens clothes... not yet anyway :D hehe
>
> I misread the header, and thought you wrote *reverse* transvestic fetishism, and I was wondering what the heck *that* might be.
>
> I like women's clothes, too. I don't like to wear them, but I like to take them off. ;-)
>
> >history of Parkinson's disease treated with a right thalamotomy
>
> Interesting, but they do not place any weight on the psychosurgical aspect. Selegiline is not the only independent variable.
>
> Lar
Posted by Sarah T. on May 24, 2005, at 0:43:32
In reply to Selegiline and Reversible transvestic fetishism, posted by alienatari on May 22, 2005, at 8:03:22
I think it's possible that the patient discussed in the article was not engaging in real travestism. The article did not indicate whose clothes he was wearing when he began wearing women's clothes. If he was wearing his late wife's clothes, perhaps he did that in an attempt to feel closer to her, to feel as if she was still there. For several years after my mother died, I liked to wear some of her sweaters. It made me feel as if she was "with me" or that a part of her was still with me. Granted, I am female, so wearing my mother's clothes doesn't seem as bizarre as a husband wearing his wife's clothes. But let's look at it another way. If the patient had been a woman whose husband died, and she started wearing her late husband's clothes, would her physicians have given this a second thought? Would they have even noticed? Frankly, I think they just needed to publish something (you know, "publish or perish"), so they gave the man's behavior the diagnostic label "transvestism." I'd be willing to bet that this was "simply" an extreme case of unresolved grief exacerbated by Parkinson's Disease and Parkinson's medications.
Posted by Sarah T. on May 24, 2005, at 0:48:33
In reply to Re: Selegiline and Reversible transvestic fetishism » alienatari, posted by Sarah T. on May 24, 2005, at 0:43:32
> I think it's possible that the patient discussed in the article was not engaging in real travestism. >>
Oops! Was that a Freudian slip? I meant "transvestism," not travestism. I don't know what travestism is, but it sounds an awful lot like the "ism" of a travesty.
Posted by ed_uk on May 24, 2005, at 14:06:28
In reply to Re: Selegiline and Reversible transvestic fetishism » alienatari, posted by Larry Hoover on May 22, 2005, at 16:08:40
Hiya!
>I like women's clothes, too. I don't like to wear them, but I like to take them off. ;-)
That made me laugh!
Ed.
Posted by Larry Hoover on May 24, 2005, at 16:38:18
In reply to Re: Selegiline and Reversible transvestic fetishism » Larry Hoover, posted by ed_uk on May 24, 2005, at 14:06:28
> Hiya!
>
> >I like women's clothes, too. I don't like to wear them, but I like to take them off. ;-)
>
> That made me laugh!
>
> Ed.I appreciate that someone got it.
Ya.
Clothes are fun. :-)
Lar
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