I was first introduced to dressing when I was 6-7 yrs old. I was told often that I was too pretty to be a boy and my aunt would encourage me to play dress up in little frilly panties. I looked forward to my visits and the more I played dress up the more I enjoyed it. As an adolescent, I found myself, even more, attracted to the opportunity to wear panties, girdles, and slips. Even now it's a feeling of relief - as if I had been tense or anxious and now I could relax . It's a sense of naturalness - as if being cross-dressed was my proper state a feeling of being attractive - this is perhaps the strongest feeling of them all. a feeling of sensuality - this is very closely tied to feeling attractive but it is enhanced by feeling satin or lace or other flimsy and sensuous fabrics against my skin sexual arousal by the sight of my own body - my stockinged legs, a skirt pulled taught across my thighs, my painted finger-nails. I feel like a woman when I'm cross-dressed and the need to take on a female identity.