Autoandrophilia has been used to refer to a biological female experiencing sexual arousal in response to imagining herself as male, or (more rarely) to women who cross-dress as men. The term has subsequently been used to refer to a biological male experiencing sexual arousal in response to imagining himself in a different masculine form or a man's arousal at the thought of being a man. Sexual interests that depend upon imagining one's self in other forms has been called erotic target identity inversion. The concept has received much less attention than autogynephilia, its counterpart. Studying gender dysphoric females in 2000, psychologist J. Michael Bailey noted a lack of information regarding autoandrophilia, that is whether female-to-male transexuals were sexually aroused by the thought of having the body of a man.
The term was added to the October, 2010 draft of the DSM-5. Commenting on the sexual paraphilic disorder section of the DSM-5 draft of 2011, psychiatrist J. Paul Fedoroff stated that the subcriteria for transvestic fetishism implied either fetishistic or autogynephilic/autoandrophilic transvestism, but objected to this implication as a person could be also be both or neither.
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