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[[Image:Cross-dressing_Example.jpg|thumb|250|an example of cross dressing]]

''Cross-dressing'' is the act of wearing the opposite gender's clothing from underwear to skirts or even socks. While cross-dressing appears in some hentai, there are also examples of characters in anime who regularly dress in the other gender's clothing.

==Cross-dressing in Hentai==
Cross-dressing is popular in shotacon, and appears in many doujins, images, and other forms, but is also sometimes used in lolikon.

===Cross-dressing in Shotakon===
Due to the cuteness factor in shota, small, hairless boys are often cross-dressed. 

Some scenarios include:
*Boys (Traps) wishing to look or "pass" as females, sometimes to lure other boys. 
*Other females/males forcing or encouraging the boy to do it for personal reasons.
*A boy wishing to be closer to a girl he admires, thus wearing her clothes, possibly to masturbate. 

Cross-dressing done by both straight and gay males. Sometimes, however, an artist chooses to portray a character as very masculine, but still puts them in feminine or female clothing.

===Cross-dressing in Lolikon===
Though a girl wearing a male's clothing is much less common, it still occurs in some hentai. Sometimes as a girl wishing to pass as a boy, or just because that's all that fits in a scene where she possibly lost her clothes. It's not uncommon for a girl to be portrayed waking up and throwing on her boyfriends shirt as a nightgown.

==Examples of Cross-dressing Characters==
*Bridget, of the Guilty Gear series