Yes, Porn Can Cause AGP

 

AGP is not an innate sexual orientation. AGP is a sexual paraphilia, and all sexual paraphilias are caused the same way: emotional attachments to something that has the potential to become eroticised.

Here's a real life example of how a paraphilia is formed: an insecure boyfriend finds out his girlfriend has had a lot more sexual partners than he has. Now, all he can think about is his girlfriend having sex with other men and this makes him feel intense jealousy. He loses trust for his girlfriend and eventually it leads to a breakup because he keeps accusing her of cheating. Well, it's around this time that he realizes that when he thinks about his girlfriend having sex with other men, it makes him incredibly horny. He develops a cuckolding fetish: now he wants his girlfriend to cheat on him because it turns him on so much. It is actually the jealousy that is so arousing for him.

When we experience emotions it causes physiological arousal, which is very similar to sexual arousal. Negative emotional attachments to something adjacent to sexual arousal - in this case, imagining his GF having sex with other men - eventually leads to the negative emotions being processed via sexual arousal. The brain does this because it is easier to process the negative emotions this way. That's how kinks, fetishes, and paraphilias are made (note: podophilia [foot fetishism] may be an exception to this rule).

Paraphilias are more arousing than the arousal from our innate sexual orientations because paraphilic arousal is emotional arousal + sexual arousal (which makes it more intense).

From this framework we can understand how trauma can cause AGP and also how pornography can cause AGP. This is also why paraphilias cluster: the arousing emotional attachment (e.g. humiliation) can be created using other adjacent paraphilic stimuli (e.g. sissy baby fetish).

In the majority of cases, the cause of AGP is the emotional attachments to the childhood desire to be a girl. These emotional attachments are typically jealousy (feelings of jealousy towards the opposite sex), shame (shame in response to being a boy who would rather be a girl), and distress/anxiety (another response to being a boy who would rather be a girl).

Jealousy: AGPs who masturbate to the thought of being the women in their lives, are actually getting off on the jealousy they feel towards these women.

Shame: Shame could potentially be the source of the arousal derived from forced feminization fantasies.

Distress/Anxiety: To steal a line from u/wxhluyp (the founder of the now defunct r/MEFetishism subreddit), the arousal from AGP fantasies is derived from the following thought: "As a man, it is distressing for this to be happening to me".

u/wxhluyp also used this idea to support the argument that AGP is a "masochistic emasculation fetish". I tend to disagree because I am of the opinion that AGP becomes masochistic when humiliation and/or embarrassment is the primary emotional attachment to the desire to be a woman/feminized. This occurs when AGP is caused by childhood emasculation trauma. That being said, I am also of the opinion that all AGPs are masochists; some are sexual masochists, while others are social masochists.

Jealousy, shame and distress are also the source of AGP-induced gender dysphoria. Perhaps gender dysphoria is AGP, only without the horniness.