It is like embracing the feminine and exploring the feminine. This is a rather common fetish among submissive males. Many young boys have their first sexual urges and excitement from touching and even trying on their Mother’s bra or panties or pantyhose, etc. Again, this is exploring the mysterious world that is the female. Many adult men never outgrow this fascination or excitement. By wearing these articles of female clothing, it is natural for this to cause submissive desires within the male and cause him to want to submit to the female.

The male that willingly accepts feminization has laid aside his macho male personality and ego and has embraced that which is feminine and forbidden by society. This causes his submission to stir within him. It says to him "If the mere clothing of a woman has this power over me, how much more power does the female herself have over me?"

Self-Feminization (or Cross-Dressing) and Forced Feminization are two distinct desires. Cross dressers are men that want to dress up as a woman. Most of these men are not gay, but there is something within them that desires to dress like a woman. It is kind of a fetish. These men usually enjoy being dominated as well as being dressed up as a woman so cross-dressing can be a form of Female Domination.

Forced feminization is totally different. The key word here is "forced".

Forced feminization is where the dominant female forces her submissive male to dress up like a woman, against his will. This is a form of domination and humiliation. The idea of forced feminization is to make a man who has absolutely no desire to dress in woman's clothes, to do so for the woman's entertainment. Forced feminization is fun because the woman knows that the man "hates" to do this. She will force him into woman's clothes, add make-up and maybe even a wig, than she will parade him in front of a mirror and force him to look at himself. She will then proceed to humiliate him. Finally, she may even strap-on a dildo and penetrate her "sissy slut" to further control him and dominate him.

Hillary and Raymond enjoy Forced Feminization while Mary Jane and Ronni enjoy assisted Feminization.

So the main difference between these two activities is that the one involves forcing the submissive to dress like a woman, whereas the other involves assisting a man who desires to dress like a woman. Over time, the man who is drawn into this activity by his wife usually will grow to enjoy it to the place where he begins to desire it on his own.