... men who wear panties in the philippines ... (psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotherapist, counselor, life coach)

one of the subtopics tackled on gma's mel and joey show was on males who cross-dress- transvestites we call them.

"transvestism,"

is defined as the practice of wearing the clothing conventionally associated with the opposite sex. when cross-dressing is associated with sexual arousal, it becomes a fetish called "trasvestic fetisism."

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many years back, as a medical intern at the philippine army hospital (VMMC), one of my routine tasks was to do physical examinations on the soldiers. i was astonished to discover that a number of our soldiers actually wore panties. initially, i couldn't imagine the defenders of our motherland wearing delicate cotton panties with frills and laces. well, not all of them really. some wore tan-colored nylon panties- the type which grandmothers wear.

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out of curiosity, i asked these soldiers why they wore such. for those who wore panties with frills and laces, the common answer i got was that they didn't have money to buy their own underwear so they wore their wive's instead. and for those who wore the tan-colored nylon panties, they explained that at the battlefield, there were no clotheslines to hang up wet clothes, so nylon "wash and wear" panties were the most practical to wear.

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so now you know- it's not because of transvestism or transvestic fetishism that some of our soldiers wear panties. it's for practical reasons! (well, at least that's what they say.)

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with segment producer fortune sarmiento and the gma crew