I've been reading about sissification and I'm fascinated and horrified in equal measure. I'm a straight man. Does being interested in this mean something about my sexuality?

Sissification involves a dominant partner feminising a male-presenting submissive, often through clothing, role assignment, and language, as an expression of power exchange and submission. The appeal operates in the space of gender play, humiliation, submission, and in some cases femininity as a deliberate inversion of expected masculine dominance.

The relationship between sissification and sexuality is frequently discussed in kink communities, and the consistent observation is that the correlation is not clean. Many men who engage with sissification kink identify as heterosexual outside of it. Some discover that the exploration reveals something about gender identity or attraction they had not previously articulated. Others find it is straightforwardly about submission and gender play with no implication for their everyday identity.

The 'horrified' part of your reaction is worth sitting with. Some of that is likely the cultural weight of feminisation as a form of humiliation, which is a loaded framework in itself. Some may be the anxiety that an interest in this kink means something definitive about your identity that you are not prepared for. Neither the interest nor the anxiety requires an immediate identity conclusion.

Kink interests do not have to resolve into a statement about your sexuality. Many people hold erotic interests that remain in the fantasy or play space without restructuring their broader identity. What you do with the interest, whether you explore it, how, and with whom, is something you can approach slowly and with full attention to your own actual experience rather than external frameworks about what it means.

Curiosity about something is not a commitment.