Part-Time Sissy Vs Lifestyle Sissy — Whats the Difference
Exploring a more practically way to categorise sissies and identifying which category do I fit into and which one do I aim to go in and then working accordingly.
Disclaimer: This document is for recreational purposes. Always practice safe, sane, and consensual play, both with yourself and with others. If you are undergoing a serious identity crisis, you should refer to a trained psychologist.
I have encountered many posts and articles of people trying to categorise, or define the different types of sissies. Some use their fantasy role as in Bimbo, Maid, Pornstar etc while some use sexual and/or romantic orientations like Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian etc to categorise sissies. However, in my opinion, all these methods of classification don’t really hold up practically since a sissy can have a changing personality and an evolving sexuality or a personal preference.
In my so many years of being a sissy and being a part of the sissy culture, I have come to the conclusion that there are basically two categories of sissies — Part-Time sissy and Lifestyle sissy.
Difference Between Part-Time And Lifestyle Sissies?
A Part-Time sissy, is that person who feels their sissyness is just temporary, or engages it in only for certain, short periods of time, maybe when extremely horny, but don’t want to make it a permanent thing in their life. Their sissy expression is limited to a portion of time during sex and does not bleed over into their daily lives. They will eventually get back into Man-Mode and live their normal, regular cis-male life.
These sissies in my observation, might be more porn induced, or experimental. For them, horniness plays a major role in maintaining their sissy status, and after orgasm, they tend to lose their sissy desires rather urgently.
Part-Time sissies, although sissies too, see their desires as more of a fetish, a kink, or a hobby. They often have two strictly defined personas, one of which is a sissy side and the other which is more conventionally masculine or feminine. This is by far the most common type of sissy.
While in contrast, a Lifestyle sissy is a person who takes their sissyness seriously. For them their desires are not just a fetish or something temporary, but an ingrained nature, or a passion or a calling. They see it as a personality trait, sexual orientation, role, nature or maybe even their gender. In their ideal world, they would openly express themselves as a sissy much or all of the time.
Lifestyle sissies have realised that their sissyness was not induced in them through porn or something sexual, but it was always a part of them, since they were born. They always had these tendencies and might even be able to quote you examples from their childhood that point out to this. They may be highly sexual beings, or they may enjoy elements of sissyhood that aren’t explicitly sexual such as hyper femininity.
If they have two personas, their sissy side is particularly strong and their other side is highly compatible with it. Lifestyle sissies keep coming back to being a sissy no matter how hard they try to get rid of it. Being a man just does not suit them or make them internally happy, and feminity always ends up pulling them back in.
Lifestyle sissies are dedicated to being a sissy and micro manage everything in their to be as feminine as possible. They may have sissy life goals such as to be in permanent chastity, to get breast implants, or to have a live-in relationship with a dominant.
Lifestyle Sissies can be trans, but they don’t have to be — many may be queer, non-binary, cis, some other identity, or defy categorisation entirely. Likewise, being trans and having sissy desires does not necessarily mean you are a Lifestyle Sissy, if you don’t want to be.
Below I highlight the differences between a fetish sissy and a lifestyle in more objective points:
It must be said, that no type of sissy is less that the other. A Part-Time sissy is as much of a sissy as a Lifestyle sissy.
This classification helps a sissy better understand themselves and then work on themselves accordingly within their own defined limits, as well as gives the dominant an idea of the scope they can work in with that sissy.
After reading this, every sissy should go back and re-evaluate themselves and see whether they are a lifestyle sissy or a part-time sissy and then work and set their sissy goals accordingly.
It gives them a realistic understanding of who they are and what direction they want to head in.
Crossing Borders
The boundaries in the sissy world are very minimal, if not none.
There is no restriction from a once part-time sissy to change their goal and become more committed to a lifestyle sissy, and a once lifestyle sissy to realise they want to go back to being a fetish sissy only.
We all have our own preferences and desires. Don’t be pressured into doing things you don’t want to live up to an arbitrary standard. One should do only what they feel works for them and they desire. Express yourself genuinely and do whatever makes you feel comfortable. The sissy world is a very accepting and judgment-free zone.
But at the same time, it is important to look deep within to see who you are and what you really want for yourself from being a sissy. This classification method is just a tool to help you identify and know yourself better. If changing from one type of sissy to another, it is important to understand what changed and what makes you turned on and whether you want to go that way or not.
Especially if one is going from Part-Time to Lifestyle, one should know that some changes might take a permanent effect on them, reversing which would be very difficult if not impossible, and should consider the same very carefully.
State Of Mind
Being a Fetish Sissy or Lifestyle Sissy is more of a **state of mind** than something you actively do.
One might have tendency or desire to be a Lifestyle sissy but external factors can force them to behave like a Part-Time sissy only. That doesn’t make you any less of a Lifestyle sissy, you just have certain boundaries you can work within and not cross.
Or in the opposite case, you might the freedom and opportunity to be more of a lifestyle sissy, but you just don’t feel that desire within you, and choose to express yourself more masculinely in regular life, acting like a Part-Time sissy.
Both are okay and both make you a valid sissy of your choosing!
Writing To Identify And Understand Yourself Better
Writing always gives more clarity on who we are and what it is we desire. For a sissy, it is the ultimate tool in identifying oneself and accepting our feelings.
If you do identify yourself as a sissy, it is very important to know which category do you currently fit in as a sissy, and which category do you eventually aim to go in, the category that will truly help you accept yourself and your desires.
After reading this post I highly advice all sissies to introspect by writing in their sissy journals, of what kind of a sissy they are and what kind they want to be in life. It will help give them the clarity they feel they are lacking.
After identifying this, the sissy will have to create a manifesto about the rules that are set in stone for them, the rules they will follow always, as well as define their limits. More on this in my next post!
