How do you stop crossdressing?

Answer 1

Get help. Therapist, Marriage Counselor, 12-Step group that is experience with sexual addiction like sexaholics anonymous. Make sure the counselors have experience with sexual addictions, and if with overcoming crossdressing addiction even better. You will have to ask them if they have experience and if they have had successful outcomes. It is important to get the right kind of help and to get support. Some blogs of people who are quitting crossdressing might help offer support. http://mycdrecovery.wordpress.com is one. http://cdreflections.wordpress.com is another I know of. I have also found a lot of the advice as sexualcontrol.com to be useful though it deals with all kinds of sexual addictions. For me, the combination of approaches is helping a lot.

Answer 2

To stop crossdressing, it's important to understand your reasons for engaging in this behavior and address any underlying issues. Seek support from a therapist or counselor to explore and work through any feelings or conflicts you may have. Developing healthy coping mechanisms and finding alternative ways to express yourself can also help in changing your behavior.

Answer 3

That would be really hard. All that's pretty much required is a house without cross-dressing supplies, and/or a really strong will to not cross-dress.

It may require exploring what drives you to cross-dress, eliminating any sexist beliefs, and possibly confronting things in your past. For instance, if your parents forced you to cross-dress, then you may need to learn to accept that, forgive them, and forgive yourself for being unable to stop them. If the cause is strict gender rules and resentments to them, then you may need to accept all of your characteristics and traits, and allow yourself to fully express your nature regardless of your wardrobe. If you can be sensitive and caring, cook, make crafts, or whatever while dressed as a man and not feel guilty nor judge yourself, then you won't need to cross-dress to give yourself permission to do things that you want to do.

A small number of cross-dressers suffer internalized homophobia. Once such cross-dressers learn to fully accept their sexual orientation, they won't need to dress as women so they can have gay sex.

One strategy that may help some is to have a structured cross-dressing regimen. If you are going to do it, then it should be on your own terms instead of on the terms of the desire. The goals of the sessions would be merging your natures into one, eliminating any guilt, and gaining the ability to be yourself no matter what you are wearing. In time, you could try expressing your "feminine traits" while dressed as a man, or doing things like taking out the garbage and changing oil while dressed as a woman. A female "sponsor" could help you eliminate any sexist notions that may be fueling your need to cross-dress.