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The sissy subculture is a complex overlap of several interests, including cosplay, ageplay, gender play, and kink. Some people in the sissy community seek social, medical, and/or legal gender transition options.

Background

The term “sissy” is a slur used to describe feminine minors who were assigned male at birth (sissy is originally a diminutive of the word sister). Sexologist Richard Green published a controversial book called The “Sissy Boy Syndrome” that described these feminine minors as having a “disorder” and advocated conversion therapy for gender diverse youth to prevent them from becoming gay or trans. Green’s ideas and practices have been largely discredited and widely outlawed.

As a sexual subculture

In modern usage, the term sissy has also come to describe a kind of gender diverse sexuality involving erotic or autoerotic interest in feminization, usually in relation to sex with a dominant (cisgender) person or involving eroticized shame. It often involves some sort of submission, like hypnosis, chastity, training, and tasks, or nonconsensual acts like “forced feminization,” or sex that involves shame, humiliation, or degradation. Some of the erotic material produced in this subculture violates taboos about sex, sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, ideology, consent, and age of consent. In some cases those violations include use of slurs and other socially unacceptable content.

While “forced feminization” has been a cultural theme throughout recorded history, the 21st-century porn genre coalesced on sites like FictionMania and Tumblr, which hosted curated pornography where fans constructed the genre’s visual language and themes. Samantha Riedel wrote:

In the context of millennial pornography, “sissy” as an erotic identity takes on a more defined set of characteristics. By this definition, a sissy is someone with a penis who is fascinated by “traditional” Western feminine ideals, obsesses over lingerie and makeup, fetishizes oral and anal sex with “superior” cisgender men, and often expresses themself hypersexually.

Authors Andrea Long Chu and Torrey Peters have made reference to sissy porn in their writing. Chu’s work is academic and analytic; Peters’ 2021 novel Detransition Baby includes a character who consumes sissy porn. A gender critical group protesting Peters’ Detransition Baby after it was longlisted for The Women’s Prize wrote:

Had a female author submitted a culturally regressive, sadomasochistic, misogynistic “surrendered wife” narrative to the Women’s Prize, it would rightly have been ignored by the judges. And yet, you’ve chosen to include a work of sissy porn suffused with hatred of women.

Trans artist Río Sofia debuted a 2017 exhibit called Forced Womanhood! The photographs in the exhibit examine the visual language of the sissy subculture.

Genderqueer author Jacob Tobia wrote a 2019 book titled Sissy, though it is a reference to the older usage of the term.

Sissy task lists

Part of the community enjoys being given tasks to complete. One such list on reddit has 256 tasks that give a good sense of the focus of sissy subculture. Almost all of the tasks are about social transition issues like clothing and sex, with some overlap of medical transition options and no legal tasks.

  • Social: categories are Panties, Bras, Hosiery, Lingerie, Shoes, Body Accessories, Cosmetics, Lifestyle, Outfits, Mental, Cyber, Public, Social, Toys, Masturbation, Sex
  • Medical: only category is Permanent and includes permanent cosmetics and fillers, hormones, breast and butt augmentation, and genital modifications

reddit sissy subcultures

Since the 2019 Tumblr porn purge and the decline of websites, blogs, and standalone forums, reddit has become an important place for sissy subcultures. The relational map below shows the general shape of the community on reddit and the different approximate clusters of interest in the community.

General

Training and tasks

Chastity and submission

Consent

Eroticizing black men

Eroticizing gender diverse femininity

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References

Kosse, M., & Hall, K. (2025). Sissy hypno in a trans-affirming register. In Sex Work and Language (pp. 156–187). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003397250-8

Feller, S. S. (2024). Sissy the Archive: Ambivalent Intimacies between “Sissy” and “Trans” in Trans* Archives and Contemporary Fiction. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 52(3–4), 135–151. https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2024.a941690

Mackay, James; Mackay, Polina (2 January 2023). “Hypnosis and Pornography: A Cultural History”. Porn Studies. 10 (1): 82–98. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F23268743.2021.1978312

Lischinsky, Alon; Gupta, Kat (2023). Erotic representations of gender diversity: A computer-assisted linguistic analysis of online erotica. In Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights. ISBN 9781003278405

Dawson, Brit (February 2022). The Controversial World of ‘Sissy Recovery’ Groups. MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/sissy-recovery-groups-feminization-recovery-industry

Peters, Torrey (2021). Detransition, Baby. One World, ISBN 978-0593133378

Gilbert, Aster (1 May 2020). “Sissy Remixed: Trans* Porno Remix and Constructing the Trans* Subject”. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 7 (2): 222–236. https://doi.org/10.1215%2F23289252-8143379

Newman, Eric (October 29, 2019). Andrea Long Chu on Desire, Weak Love, and Modern Trans Identity. Literary Hub https://lithub.com/andrea-long-chu-on-desire-weak-love-and-modern-trans-identity/

Burt, Stephanie (November 2019). Ways of Being. The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/transgender-narratives/598354/

White, Byrony (7 November 2019). ‘Everyone is Female and Everyone Hates It’: Andrea Long Chu’s Theory of Desire. Frieze Magazine https://frieze.com/article/everyone-female-and-everyone-hates-it-andrea-long-chus-theory-desire

Lorusso, Melissa (30 October 2019). In ‘Females,’ The State Is Less A Biological Condition Than An Existential One. NPR https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774365692/in-females-the-state-is-less-a-biological-condition-than-an-existential-one

Gabriel, Kay (25 November 2019). The Limits of the Bit. Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-limits-of-the-bit/

Chu, Andrea Long (2019). Females: A Concern. Verso, ISBN 9781788737371

Riedel, Samantha (December 14, 2018). RIP My Sissy Porn Tumblr, and the Self-Discovery That Came With It. them. https://www.them.us/story/tumblr-adult-content

Chu, Andrea Long (2018). “Did Sissy Porn Make Me Trans?” Queer Disruptions 2, Columbia University, New York, NY, March 1–2, 2018. [pdf]

Chu, Andrea Long (2018). “Pornographic Spectatorship, or, Did Sissy Porn Make Me Trans?” 2018 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, March 29–April 1, 2018.

Sofia, Río (2017) Forced Womanhood! https://www.riosofia.com/forced-womanhood

Hester, Helen; Jones, Bethan; Taylor-Harman, Sarah (October 2, 2015). Giffing a fuck: non-narrative pleasures in participatory porn cultures and female fandom Porn Studies. 2 (4): 356–366. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2015.1083883

Anti-trans coverage

Clark, Malcolm (March 30, 2025). The White Lotus exposes a dark truth about trans. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/30/the-white-lotus-exposes-a-dark-truth-about-trans/

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley, Sasha Ayad, and Shane Cole (August 23, 2024). 179 – Healing From Sissy Porn and Gender Dysphoria with Shane Cole. https://www.widerlenspod.com/p/episode-179

Becker, Laura (October 6, 2023). Fetishistic Transition: A Detransitioned Man’s Case Study. Genspect https://genspect.org/fetishistic-transition-a-detransitioned-mans-case-study/

Vadapalli, Sundara Kashyap; Kuss, Daria J. (July 6, 2023). Sissy Hypno: Conceptualisation of Autogynephilic Persuasive Pornography (AGPP) and an Investigative Exploration of the Experiences of its Consumers. Sexuality & Culture. 28: 243–269. https://doi.org/110.1007/s12119-023-10113-y. ISSN 1936-4822

Smith, Lauren (May 19, 2023). A pornified view of womanhood. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/05/19/a-pornified-view-of-womanhood/

The Michael Knowles Show with Michael Knowles and Genevieve Gluck (May 6, 2023). Hypno Porn: DANGEROUS New Trend Turns Men Trans | Genevieve Gluck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLmz_xfBLR0

The Dr. Debra Soh podcast with Debra Soh (June 12, 2022). 46. Autogynephilia, Sissy Hypnosis, Cross-Dressing, and Narcissism (Solo Episode). https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-dr-debra-soh-podcast-3687310/episodes/46-autogynephilia-sissy-hypnos-141776080

Wild Woman Writing Club (). Open Letter to The Women’s Prize. https://wildwomanwritingclub.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/open-letter-to-the-womens-prize

Johanssen, J. (2021). Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003031581

Whose Body Is It with Isabella Malbin and Genevieve Gluck (March 26, 2021). 14. The TRUTH about Sissy Hypno Porn with Genevieve Gluck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpeHOHe6yT0

Perry, Louise (January 2020) Sissy porn and trans dirty laundry [review of Andrea Long Chu’s book Females: A Concern]. The Critic https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/january-2020/sissy-porn-and-trans-dirty-laundry/

Wilson, Gary (2014). Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction. Commonwealth Publishing, ASIN B00N2AH8NW [PDF]

Resources

note: links are not endorsements and may contain adult content.

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Sexual Health Alliance (sexualhealthalliance.com)

Amazon (amazon.com)

Sissy Factory (sissyfactory.blogspot.com)

Club Sissy (clubsissy.com)

Warp My Mind (warpmymind.com)

Hypnotube (hypnotube.com)

Sissy University (sissy-university.com)

Fictionmania (fictionmania.tv)

Ultimate Sissy (ultimatesissy.com)

The Sissy Store (thesissystore.com)

Sissy Lover (sissylover.com)

Sissy Social (sissy.social)

Novagirl (novagirl.net)

Sissy Kiss (sissykiss.com)

Sissy24 (sissy24.com)

iamsissy.com (iamsissy.com)

Sissy Things (sissythings.com)

Miss Vera’s School (missvera.com)

Colores Academy (coloresacademy.com)

Historic resources

The Goddess Summer (summerschoolforsissies.wordpress.com) [archive]

Pink Kizzes (pinkkizzes.com) [archive]

Sissy Training Videos (sissytrainingvideos.com) [archive]

Feminization Station (feminizationstation.blogspot.co.uk) [archive]