(Post title confirmed with the mod) I’m not here to discuss my experience, just feel like I need to set a thoroughly explained example, so here’s mine, to give more context and perspective to the question. I am curious about your experiences. As a very much straight cis woman, I’ve always played men in video games and DnD, always was invested in male protagonists, wrote stories from the male POV, even wished I was a man while feeling like a 100% woman. That’s not gender dysforia or anything, neither a gender envy. Eventually I realized that this is how attraction to men manifested, I didn’t have enough masculinity in my life, so I’d soursed it from everywhere including myself. Once I got a man that embodied my dream of masculinity, the urge to play pretend was gone. He filled my life with quite enough of it. Now I’m wondering, is this common for straight men? Have any of you felt that feminine energy was lacking in your life and soursed it from anywhere and everywhere? submitted by /u/Linorelai
Originally posted by u/Linorelai on r/AskMen