[brandygang]

Dark Horseman, I agree. It can be kind of weird to have characters demanding to be changed. My interest in that sort of demand from the transformed is usually out of respect to their continuing relation with their former identity. Since I imagine being Transformed, corrupted or Brainwashed leads to a rather fundamentally differing process. You don't feel quite the same, not really like you. So do things about 'you' that use to apply to 'you' (Your home, interests, old friends and loved ones, ect) still apply?

In a way asking others to critique or even share in their transformation, is a kind of assessing the truth in that. Finding out where 'you' are now, what's there, what's gone, what's unobtainable and what can be redeemed. Refiguring your whole life and Identity. I find the whole exploration of this incredibly erotic.

As much as I think it's a cliche (and thanks to movies like Twilight made pretty horrible and Bella this trope taken to near-parody), this is done a lot with vampires. Especially Vampire ladies and lovers, but for some reason Vampires seem to get more depth and sympathy in this kind of treatment than any other genre monster I know.

@aresx

I can vibe with most of that. Never really got voluntary transformations, unless it's for some kind of Powerplay. Without any tradeoff or compromise of will it just seems like a self-indulgent fantasy, as opposed to one framed as a fetish.

For example there's a lot of Girly and Stereotypical transformations I used to think I'd enjoy, but realized it's actually pretty horrifying without any mental changes. You're stuck in this new body without any sense of what to do with it, your life is made a mess of and everythings chaotic. Maybe it's a humiliation thing? I don't know, but unless I have some sliver of "Identity" or mindset corresponding with the new form I'm in it's too traumatic to think about enjoying. Like if one is suddenly in the body of a near stripper, sure they might cop a feel or tease at first but what than?

Contrary to what most TG fetishes would have you believe, being a girl is not a super sweet sugar rush experience where everything is now sunshine and rainbows. It's periods and a weaker stature and sexism and discrimination, and following that just normal human experience. There's too much more to the reality of it that would follow after the first , like a punch of reality to the gut.

However, if given the identity changes and mental erasure to deal with it, than it's far less of an issue. It's not as jarring if ones lived like that their whole life and just assume it as normal everyday life.

Having to live and think like a Cat has always been a weird interest of mine also. As much as anything else I suppose.