Playing dress-up won’t change your sexuality

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Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I want to surprise my wife with a New Year’s Eve present she will never expect. She has always dared me to dress up like a frilly French maid and wait on her, and I’m going to do it at midnight. Of course, I will need a lot of champagne in me, but I have worries — do you think it’s a mistake? It’s something she’s wanted and it’s taken me a long time to get the guts to do it, but I think I’m ready to try it. I bought the costume and it fits.

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Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I want to surprise my wife with a New Year’s Eve present she will never expect. She has always dared me to dress up like a frilly French maid and wait on her, and I’m going to do it at midnight. Of course, I will need a lot of champagne in me, but I have worries — do you think it’s a mistake? It’s something she’s wanted and it’s taken me a long time to get the guts to do it, but I think I’m ready to try it. I bought the costume and it fits.

Am I an idiot? Will I end up being permanently weird?

— Adventure Guy, South End

 

Dear Adventure Guy: The key word is costume. If you don’t want to turn into a female French maid, but only want to amuse and titillate your girlfriend, you haven’t wasted your money. If you have a wish deep down to become a cross dresser or transgender woman, then you are opening a crack in a door you might have opened further down the road anyway — or not at all. But, if this is just playtime and a silly experiment, I doubt it will change you in any way.

Be prepared for it not to work if you can’t keep a straight face, and it may end up in a giggle-fest. Both of you should then be ready to laugh and throw the costume idea out and move on to your next adventure. There are so many available.

 

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Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I want to surprise my wife with a New Year’s Eve present she will never expect. She has always dared me to dress up like a frilly French maid and wait on her, and I’m going to do it at midnight. Of course, I will need a lot of champagne in me, but I have worries — do you think it’s a mistake? It’s something she’s wanted and it’s taken me a long time to get the guts to do it, but I think I’m ready to try it. I bought the costume and it fits.

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