"Whenever I wear panties I feel very feminine and become extremely bi curious. Is that normal?"
It's not unusual. I think it's common for us to look at our sexuality in a different light when we are less inhibited.
What I mean is that when we allow ourselves to BE who we are (often by wearing what we wish), we are more open to different possibilities. Wearing what we want, especially when it's considered crossdressing, tends to make us feel a little more vulnerable, and oftentimes a little more honest with ourselves. Maybe not everything, including our sexuality, is as black and white as we thought.
I also think that when we FEEL feminine (and that's pretty normal when we wear panties), we realize we LOVE feeling feminine. Annnnd feeling femme can be, well, intoxicating. We fall in love with the feeling. I don't want to say that it's addicting, but for many of us when we feel feminine, and when we love how we feel, we want to feel MORE feminine. For some, panties lead to bras, and then to stockings, and then to high heels and so on... constantly expanding our wardrobe to include new items that increase that feeling of femininity.
And for some of us, we want to, well, for lack of a better phrase, "be THE girl". This isn't necessarily about transitioning, but some of us have a fantasy of wearing beautiful lingerie during intimate moments, and that can include being with someone sexually who treats us as feminine. Our imagination can drift towards being with a man in these moments. We may daydream about being with a man because he may increase our own feeling of femininity. In some daydreams, it's not necessarily about being with a man, but rather being in a moment, being with someone, that increases how we want to feel.
Wearing panties or anything else does not change your sexuality, in my opinion. I don't think our sexual preferences shift when we wear panties compared to when we wear, well, anything else. I feel we are more open to other things when we are feeling vulnerable, happier, and less inhibited and lingerie can very easily do that.
Love, Hannah
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