ABSTRACT
The Cross-Gender Fetishism Scale (CGFS; Blanchard, 1985) is a measure (for males) of the erotic arousal value of putting on women’s clothes, perfume, and make-up, and shaving the legs. The term cross-gender fetishism was coined by Freund, Steiner, and Chan (1982) to designate fetishistic activity that is accompanied by fantasies of being female and carried out with objects symbolic of femininity. It is therefore roughly equivalent to the term transvestism as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 1980).
