I do think it would be interesting to know the differences between how cis women feel and how transmen feel, it would definitely answer some questions that have been raised here as far as rather or not things are natural or normal.
At the same time though the fact is that some of the things that have been said do not sound like a phantom limb issue at all. It's not a dismissal of people's feelings, it's merely looking at it in a logical way. It is a physical response from a portion of the body that is essentially the same in both genders when it comes down to the basics. Both get hard, both twitch or move on their own, both get sensation from extreme blood flow, etc. In essence the clit and the penis are the same thing, that is why the clit is exactly what becomes the penis in the uterus.
Who doesn't want to say that yes there is something so male about us on the inside that we even FEEL male on the outside and it feels natural and right to us? We are all here because we identify as trans to some degree or another, it is only logical to follow that sometimes we can convince ourselves that something which is completely natural and normal for someone with our physical body is really a beautiful in-depth thing that displays to us and to the world that our bodies just aren't as they were meant to be.
We can do all of the physical studies everyone has mentioned but it won't change the hundreds of psychological studies that have been done showing that it is more likely that we WANT to have this sensation, we WANT to feel this way and so when it is brought up by another person we do. It's a natural human reaction, when you hear what you WANT to hear it becomes what you WANT it to be and means what you WANT it to mean. It's desire, it's normal, it's natural and every single person has done it at some point or another. It's not some kind of phenomenon, it's a psychological reaction that has been studied, documented and proven right over and over and over and over again. It's called PSYCHOSOMATICS. With the appropriate suggestion we can all actually feel something.
Once again, I am not saying that any particular people here are crazy or making it up or whatever. I'm not dismissing that MANY of us could have a phantom penis. I'm merely pointing out that not all of these things sound like a phantom limb and that perhaps there is some band wagon jumping going on in this thread. Honestly if there wasn't any band wagon jumping going on that would be a much larger phenomenon than the phantom penis.
