Table 3.

Case example of transvestite fetishism (from Krafft-Ebing, 1887)

J, a young butcher, when arrested, was found to be wearing underneath his overcoat a bodice, a corset, a vest, a jacket, a collar, a jersey and a chemise, also fine stockings and garters. Since he was eleven, he was troubled by the desire to wear a chemise of his elder sister. Whenever he could do it unnoticed, he indulged in this pleasure, and since the age of puberty, the wearing of such a garment would bring on ejaculation. When he became independent, he bought chemises and other articles of female toilet. To put on such garments was the great aim of his sexual instinct and he begged the hospital physician to let him wear female attire.