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https://www.nytimes.com/1924/05/18/archives/science-learns-how-animals-change-sex-biologists-assert-that-high.html
1910s and early 1920s documentation of intersex animals changing sex when researchers introduce stimuli appears to have been the inspiration for science fiction forced feminization, starting in 1922 with Weird Tales.
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Transvestia, Vol. 01, No. 02 (March 1960) contains a reprint of a 1913 forced femme poem called "Roy Violet, the Boy-Girl", credited to "an English periodical called NEW RUN [uncertain transcription; first letter of second word illegible], April 15, 1913". No author name is included, though the word Another is featured in quote marks at the end of the poem like it might be a pseudonym. It fits into the "Bad Boy to Good Girl" genre, with a bullying teen boy being feminized as punishment, coerced into it by dominant sisters by withholding food, and him eventually settling into that role. It's reproduced below:
ROY VIOLET, THE BOY-GIRL
Roy was most unruly, in a most unpleasant way. At school, at home, he never would the simplest rules obey But when he was expelled his sisters' backs were up, They'd try another plan to tame this most unruly pup.
If he would not be pleasant and obedient as a boy, He'd have to learn to be a girl— Violet, not Roy. They would give him pretty lingerie and petticoats & frocks And the smartest of silk stockings, 'stead of trousers, shirts and socks.
They would lace him up in corsets, 'til he could barely sit They would train him to be dainty, to sew & mend & knit. At first there was some trouble, but this silly pup soon found That hunger wasn't pleasant and to give in he'd be bound.
So he got into his lingerie and petticoats and stays And as a girl in dainty frocks he learned to mend his ways. At first he did not like to be a boy dressed as a girl, To learn his face to powder, and his hair to neatly curl.
He was sulky and resentful, tried an air of the bravado, But he found tomboyish manners with girl's clothes didn't go. However, he behaved himself since as a girl he'd got to live He just made up his mind to that— there was no alternative.
Girl's clothes were rather nice if one forgot one was a boy, And in the future he was Violet, he'd ne'er again be Roy. So Roy gave up his struggle and gave up his boyish name And soon a very charming, fascinating girl the lad became
He learned to wear his pretty clothes in a pretty girlish way He learned to mend his sister's things, and dance and sing and play. He found that it was rather nice to be a girl, and so He resigned himself completely to the life he was to know
Nine years have passed, he's still a girl, a most complete success. And nothing would induce him in his boy's clothes now to dress. After frocks and dainty underclothes and petticoats awhirl No, Violet he'll always be, and proud to be a girl.
So ladies read and mark and learn, unruly males to tame, By making them wear petticoats and adopt a girlish name. For every boy and every man is female more or less. When other methods don't succeed, why try a change of dress.
..."Another"
(source)
#holy shit this couldn't have come around at a better time #forcefem fiction has been around for so long #like i figured it had but not this far
Check out my timeline on the history of forced feminization! It is much older than 1913!
Transvestia: Volume #1, Issue #1
It seems worthwhile to analyze the contents of Transvestia, the 1960s transvestite and broadly trans magazine by Virginia Prince. I will be working from scans uploaded by the University of Victoria (here). Though in the text, Prince uses he/him pronouns and identifies only as a male crossdresser, Prince would later identify as a transgender woman and use she/her, so I will default to that.
Important context is that very recently before its release, the de facto ban on queer materials sent through the postal service was overturned. Previously, queer content could only slip through the cracks in heavily coded oblique descriptions in larger publications or was restricted to small, underground, often kinky newsletters not using the postal service. In 1954 and 1955, there was an effort to publish One, a magazine targeted at gay men, and it was banned for being obscene material simply for being for gay men. The One people took the case to court, and in 1958, it was ruled that queer material was not necessarily obscene. This opened the door for Transvestia, but the specter of obscenity laws kept them from getting as overtly sexual as modern day outlets like FictionMania, which are descendants of Transvestia.
History of Forced Femme
I have identified the first forced feminization stories. It's ancient in origin. Here is the basic timeline:
Roughly ~4,000 BCE, ancient Mesopotamians combine multiple gods, both male and female, into the single goddess Inanna, giving her the aspects of both a male war god and female fertility goddess: a woman with a man's beard.
Over the course of 2,000 years, Inanna develops as a benefactor of trans and/or non-binary people, and her priests take on drag roles in her worship. In a famous Hymn to Inanna, her high priestess claims Inanna has many powers, including "to turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man."
In the 800s BCE, the Greeks adopt Inanna as the goddess Aphrodite, goddess of love—but also develop cults around divergent versions of her, one as a war goddess (Aphrodite Areia), and one as an androgynous man, Aphroditus: a chick with a dick.
In the next ~400 years, Aphrodite loses her war variant, and Aphroditus is reimagined as the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, and renamed Hermaphroditus, which is where we get the word "hermaphrodite".
Scythians, Northern Asian nomads who frequently fought with the Greeks, were observed by them to have shamans who seemingly were men taking on the roles of women, names of women, acting like women, and displaying the mannerisms of women. In modern times, they have been interpreted as trans women, but the ancient Greeks were confused. In 430 BCE, the scholar Herodotus supplies an answer: Aphrodite has the power to turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man, so surely the Scythians sacked her temple, and she responded by cursing them, transforming them into sissies! The exact word he uses is "enarei," meaning "unmanly men," so... sissies. This is the first forced feminization story: a misunderstanding of trans people.
In the Hellenistic period, 323 BCE-30 BCE, a legend is developed about Hermaphroditus being married to a nymph named Salmacis and them being the first marriage in history. Salmacis is framed as a villain toward mortal men, force-feminizing them in the waters of her spring in a cave near Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey). This is the second forced feminization story.
In 8 CE, the Roman erotic poet Ovid writes a retelling of Greek mythology, framing everything as an erotic rape metaphor if not actual rape. He retells the Salmacis/Hermaphroditus story as her merging with him and creating his androgyny in a rape attempt and him getting his parents to curse the spring with forced feminization in a misery loves company bout of rage.
94-96 CE, the Roman poet Statius retells a 455 BCE-408 BCE Euripides play about Achilles crossdressing to avoid fighting in the Trojan War, but Statius draws heavily from Ovid to make it read like an erotic rape metaphor that his domineering mother pushes him to crossdress, where he suffers from having to perform the feminine gender role while simultaneously lusting after a girl who only knows him as a woman.
In the Renaissance, Ovid and Statius' stories were revived in mainstream plays and operas.
In the 19th century, these Greco-Roman stories are taught as classics and reproduced in bold erotic novels.
Forced feminization as we know it develops in the late 1800s.
Everything else is just based on that.
I was a notorious egg for a decade. I thought I had my gender figured out: agender enby, a valid gender identity, but not for me. I was hiding from myself.
I was not good at self actuation, I typically need a push to make scary decisions.
I started joking, and then "joking", about forcefem, partly because of one particularly good girl's posts.
After a while of "it would be really cool if someone gave me hormones", I realised I'm someone. I booked an appointment. My Dr was fantastic. He said I could try estradiol and see if I liked it. It's cheap, it's easy, I didn't need to come out or tell anyone, and it would not cause any irreversible changes unless I kept going for a few months. You can literally just try it out without making any big decisions.
So I started HRT. Then I came out as a girl within a week. It is the most clearly correct decision I have ever made. I feel more alive than ever before. It's hard at times, but life feels worth living.
Jokes, and the idea of someone making the decision for me, made HRT less scary and easier to think about, which may have saved my life.
All of the trans people on this site, especially transfemmes who showed me who I could be, especially @isuggestforcefem:
Thank you.
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Transvestia, Vol. 01, No. 02 (March 1960) contains a reprint of a 1913 forced femme poem called "Roy Violet, the Boy-Girl", credited to "an English periodical called NEW RUN [uncertain transcription; first letter of second word illegible], April 15, 1913". No author name is included, though the word Another is featured in quote marks at the end of the poem like it might be a pseudonym. It fits into the "Bad Boy to Good Girl" genre, with a bullying teen boy being feminized as punishment, coerced into it by dominant sisters by withholding food, and him eventually settling into that role. It's reproduced below:
ROY VIOLET, THE BOY-GIRL
Roy was most unruly, in a most unpleasant way. At school, at home, he never would the simplest rules obey But when he was expelled his sisters' backs were up, They'd try another plan to tame this most unruly pup.
If he would not be pleasant and obedient as a boy, He'd have to learn to be a girl— Violet, not Roy. They would give him pretty lingerie and petticoats & frocks And the smartest of silk stockings, 'stead of trousers, shirts and socks.
They would lace him up in corsets, 'til he could barely sit They would train him to be dainty, to sew & mend & knit. At first there was some trouble, but this silly pup soon found That hunger wasn't pleasant and to give in he'd be bound.
So he got into his lingerie and petticoats and stays And as a girl in dainty frocks he learned to mend his ways. At first he did not like to be a boy dressed as a girl, To learn his face to powder, and his hair to neatly curl.
He was sulky and resentful, tried an air of the bravado, But he found tomboyish manners with girl's clothes didn't go. However, he behaved himself since as a girl he'd got to live He just made up his mind to that— there was no alternative.
Girl's clothes were rather nice if one forgot one was a boy, And in the future he was Violet, he'd ne'er again be Roy. So Roy gave up his struggle and gave up his boyish name And soon a very charming, fascinating girl the lad became
He learned to wear his pretty clothes in a pretty girlish way He learned to mend his sister's things, and dance and sing and play. He found that it was rather nice to be a girl, and so He resigned himself completely to the life he was to know
Nine years have passed, he's still a girl, a most complete success. And nothing would induce him in his boy's clothes now to dress. After frocks and dainty underclothes and petticoats awhirl No, Violet he'll always be, and proud to be a girl.
So ladies read and mark and learn, unruly males to tame, By making them wear petticoats and adopt a girlish name. For every boy and every man is female more or less. When other methods don't succeed, why try a change of dress.
..."Another"
(source)
Published in “Transvestia” magazine #38 (April 1966). I think original art could be by Bob Tupper.
not sure if anyone’s added this info here but because I wanted to know more I checked and….
Every issue of transvestia magazine, which ran from the 60’s through to the 80’s is available through the uVic archives. It was a groundbreaking publication for the crossdressing and later the transgender community. Check it out.
https://vault.library.uvic.ca/collections/6576cedf-1282-4089-8351-08f73f4199b4
So. This is an early forced femme repository on the order of Fictionmania. The first volume features as its first story, a reasonably well-polished forced femme story about a draft dodger being blackmailed into becoming a maid, presented as a Dear Penthouse style purportedly true but obviously false narrative.
It shouldn't be considered for crossdressers and not trans women because there was no clear distinction between these categories. Magnus Hirschfeld coined the term "transvestism" from his studies of German soldiers in WWI who fetishized wearing female clothing. His transvestites were the first trans women to receive medical transitions. The word "transsexual" was first used in 1956 to distinguish the idea of trans women from crossdressers, but it wouldn't have totally caught on and separated the two identities from the general community as few as four years later in 1960, when the first Transvestia issue was published. The two identities aren't totally separated now in 2024! There is still crossover. Eggs are still attracted to force femme before coming into their identities as trans women.
Transvestia, like Fictionmania, is trans culture.
We look at what consent looks like in the context of engaging with forced femme and other forms of BDSM.
Check out the latest Sissy Salon episode, about consent in the context of forced femme.
Eh, sorry, forgot which blog I was posting in. 😅
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Fantastic Four #15. I debated whether to go with a funny caption or just comment on the bigotry. I picked the latter.
Here’s an example of a combination of transphobia, homophobia, and sexism. The Thing’s masculine pride is offended, and he responds with violence. His pride is associated with maintaining an appearance in-line with traditional masculinity. Through depicting the Thing as a feminine cross-dressing “sissy”, Thing is degraded by having his masculinity questioned. The figure associates femininity with weakness, and it has connotations of being gay or trans (sometimes there isn’t a lot of a distinction).
At some point, we will have to talk about the early comics creators' hypermasculinity and frequent use of "sissy" or "pantywaist" as the thing to push back on. Notably, The Thing here is Jack Kirby's in-universe persona: a macho manly man prone to angry outbursts--here depicted in forced feminized projection by other manly men trying to dominate him.
"boys will be boys" wrong: force fem
boys will be girls if i can do anything about it
Sissy Iggs (Intersex Eggs)
Some segment of the sissification community appears to be intersex even if they're not aware of it. Small penis humiliation is prominent in sissification and some of the small penises depicted are small enough to fit within the definition of micropenis, which is not widely understood to be an intersex condition but technically is one. This identification is complicated by exaggerations on what counts as a small penis (often everything smaller than above average gets incorrectly listed), the use of HRT by trans models characterized as sissies in captions (as can result in shrinkage), and the deliberate use of chastity devices to reduce penis size, but there is still a segment that reports or showcases penises within the parameters of micropenis and indicates they have been that way since birth.
This is fetishized as an unmanly quality based on modern Western gender conceptions (as opposed to, say, ancient Greek) and fits into sissification as a physical excuse to be forced into a feminine gender role, but this may be an oversimplification of why people with micropenis may be attracted to feminization. They're intersex even if they don't realize it and could have a more complicated view of gender just because of how their brains were formed. Iggs who are specifically into feminization may be more likely to be non-binary or trans. Unfortunately, there's widespread ignorance of micropenis being intersex, so no one in the community itself can put together these connections and people outside the community only see the gender roles on display.
For reference, before I had a vaginoplasty, I had micropenis and was into the forced femme/sissification genre in my teenage years as a sort of repressed trans girl thing. I enjoyed small penis humiliation because it was the closest thing to positive representation outside of the ancient Greek statues that everyone makes fun of today for displaying such alien values. Despite the framing of SPH as denigrating small penises, small penises are necessary for it to even function and may be honored in specific ways that go against mainstream conceptions of masculinity that resonate with trans eggs (e.g. "Aww, it's so cute!"). When I suggest that sissy iggs might also be trans eggs or similar, I'm coming at it from the perspective of someone close to that.
As a related issue, one trope in sissy SPH is stating that the subject is so unmanly that his penis is smaller than some women's clitorises. This is used to characterize his penis as equivalent to a clitoris and dubbed a "clitty" as part of his feminization. If this length comparison is accurate to the character (sometimes the dominants lie but not all the time), it is undoubtedly an indication of micropenis. It's also the case that these women's large clitorises are themselves an intersex condition (clitoromegaly), not recognized as such by the sissification community. Intersex people are not consciously acknowledged, yet are nonetheless folded into the fetish.
I have the distinct suspicion that this sissy caption-maker is secretly a trans woman trying to crack eggs in the sissy community: https://www.tumblr.com/georginared
Pretty much all the captions are gender-affirming positive messages framed like they should be force femme but strangely aren't. Like, most have a message on the order of "Feel good about your feminine body! Wear female clothes you like to wear! Release the woman within!" A number of them reference a girl in the mirror, representing the girl you want to be, which is a common transfemme way of expressing a hidden feminine gender identity as an alternate self. Even one that you'd think would be about male domination comes down to "Find a supportive boyfriend". They're wholesome trans-positive messages and are framed like they shouldn't be.
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Musing more on the caption problem of sharing someone's OF pictures without permission, I have say, findoms who expect people to give them money because they've posted entertaining captions that do not come with compensation for or even the identification/promotion of the sex worker subjects used in their creation are ripping them off, effectively committing plagiarism. The fact that there's a viable findom market out there shows that at least a segment of the people who view captions are willing to offer payment for some manner of sexual service, so it makes sense that captioners at the very least identify the subjects and link to where viewers can give them tips.
Maybe there should be some kind of community service endeavor where individual subjects are identified and their pages linked? Like, there's a user who identifies make and model of cars that show up in random Tumblr images; why not a person or group doing something similar with sexual Tumblr images?
In some cases, I imagine it's just going to be very hard to identify the subjects. Their images may just have been floating around the Internet for years without adequate labeling. In Andrea Long Chu's Females, she points out the oddity of sissification captions using "cock" as a mass noun in the way "sugar" and "sand" are, described in reference to abundance instead of delineating individual instances, but this is generally how Internet users perceive of sexually stimulating materials. They are removed from context and amassed in huge collections, to be partitioned out according to specific traits like hair color that can be fetishized. The subjects are dehumanized and not treated as people who have performed a valuable service and should receive respect as workers.
I recall reading that prominent forced femme writer/domme Melissa Daniels specifically gets the rights to use the erotic imagery featured in her captions and illustrated stories. Though she's probably not the only one to do this, she's the only one I know of because it doesn't get talked about a lot - because most people don't bother. It's ridiculously easy to just steal with very little risk factor in getting caught and receiving negative consequences. I think a social change needs to be made, to change the way people think about captioning, and pressure captioners to conform to the new social standard of, at the very least, identifying and promoting the subjects or, at best, getting permission to use their images and purchasing any required license.
To the blogs with “all images are taken from the internet- message me for removal” in their bio, the way that reads is “I only care about consent when I get caught violating it.”
Did the random other blog you took the image from get consent to post that person’s nudes? No they didn’t. Why does one degree of separation absolve you from assuring consent? It doesn't.
I intend to discuss this problem in our episode on sissification captions, currently planned for episode #16.
