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I find it admirable that you are seeking understanding of AGP, since most who have it don't want to understand it as being AGP. Since reading Anne Lawrence's book this past May, I've done a deep dive into the sexology on this and can suggest some reading material. If you have the money for the hard copies of these books, I highly recommend obtaining them because taking notes in a physical book is a much better way of learning and engaging with a text. This is an orientation that can drastically alter your life trajectory, so it is worthwhile to take the study of it seriously so that you may make truly informed decisions. The three books I will be recommending are listed in order from best through third-best. They are all excellent and important for different reasons.

Men Trapped in Men's Bodies, by Anne Lawrence

https://surveyanon.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/men-trapped-in-mens-bodies_book.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Trapped-Mens-Bodies-Autogynephilic-Transsexualism/dp/1461451817

Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress, by Magnus Hirschfeld . Translated by Michael Lombardi-Nash

https://www.amazon.com/Transvestites-New-Concepts-Human-Sexuality/dp/0879756659

Transvestites and Transsexuals: Toward a Theory of Cross-Gender Behavior, by Richard F. Docter

https://www.amazon.com/Transvestites-Transsexuals-Cross-Gender-Perspectives-Sexuality/dp/0306428784

The first two books listed above give the best overview of the phenomenon and contain plentiful first-person narratives that impart the flavor and texture of the orientation. I found it particularly interesting to see how AGP played out in a different cultural context(100 years ago) by reading Hirschfeld's book. The men fetishize different things because of their cultural context, but the general phenomenon is the same. The third book goes into detail about identity, cross-sex identity formation, and the different stages in the process of MtF spectrum phenomena. This book is particularly useful if you want an understanding of how engaging with different types of behaviors over time can lead to different outcomes. In particular, it stresses the correlation between engaging in interpersonal aspects of the orientation such as using a feminine name or presenting as fully female in social situations and the subsequent development of a feminine gender identity and increased dysphoria. Based on what I've learned from these books, I have decided to preferentially engage with primarily transvestic AGP and secondarily behavioral AGP with the goal of taking it slow and hopefully never developing a cross-sex GI as well as minimizing dysphoria. I am avoiding anatomical and physiologic imaginations, which is easy as I lack much imagination. This is to mitigate body-based dysphoria and hopefully avoid HRT. Above all, I am avoiding the interpersonal aspects of AGP because the evidence suggests that being treated as a woman socially through a feminine name and full feminine presentation is the fast-track to having the feminine identity gain control over the identity system. I am trying to stay a transvestite and identify as such, since transitioning will hurt my dating chances with women, make me physically weaker, and I will never(ever) pass since I'm currently a 6'4" broad-shouldered muscular man. I feel safer physically having muscles, and I do not want to give up the benefits of being treated as male. My situation aside, I want to also mention a couple studies by Kevin Hsu which I found highly informative.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266581880_The_Psychometric_Structure_of_Items_Assessing_Autogynephilia

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308036975_Sexual_Arousal_Patterns_of_Autogynephilic_Male_Cross-Dressers

The first one is fantastic, I wish there were more like it. You can answer the survey questions in the appendix and compare yourself to the study cohort to see where you rank in comparison. This study also shows the correlations between different types of AGP and gender dysphoria, among other things. They found that Interpersonal AGP was most highly correlated with gender dysphoria, which is in alignment with Docter's 1988 book which I linked above. Overall, they found that it is the total level of AGP that often matters more than which subtypes of AGP a person exhibits.

I hope someone finds this post informative or helpful. I have a wish to make all this information more accessible and digestible to fellow AGP males who are trying to understand who they are and what is the best course of action for them to take. Since AGP makes one's place on the MtF spectrum constantly subject to change, its important to know what actions, behaviors, and decisions are correlated with what types of outcomes. The science is still in its infancy, but we have some strong clues to go off of.

The one case subject, whose proclivities towards a gender transition evaporated on the advent of anticonvulsants, seems to be of interest on askAGP.

The case subject in question, G, appears in chapter eleven of the 2016 book, The Transsexual Delusion, available on lulu.com. The book is a revised version, edition number 1.44, of my 2008 book, (Un)Acceptable Losses, available on amazon.com. I published a second version of the book simply due to the fact that I liked the title, The Transsexual Delusion, more than the original name. I apologize for the fact that material on the case subject. is not available online You can access the two books at the following URLs. The book, The Transsexual Delusion, is the more advanced of the two, and includes more case studies of people admittedly having autogynephilic addiction.

https://www.amazon.ca/acceptable-Losses-G-Eugene-Pichler/dp/0557042941

http://www.lulu.com/ca/en/shop/g-eugene-pichler/the-transsexual-delusion/paperback/product-22782280.html

Regarding the case subject, himself, if you have any questions you wish to pose to the individual, I can forward these questions on as I am still in touch with the individual.

G Eugene