LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Ed Darling:

From now on you are our favorite "pin-up Girl". Just to think of the vast amount of work entailed in It the publication of a magazine makes me shudder. takes real devotion to a cause to launch a project such as TRANSVESTIA. I wish more of us girls would set aside a few hours to write down bits of informa-

tion which might be helpful to you. What helps you helps all of us.

For a first issue the contents and format are more than adequate to satisfy our common hunger for information. The proposed layout seems varied and ample enough to contain just about the entire kaleido- scope of the TV world. I'm just dying to see the day when TRANSVESTIA will carry our photographs. I wonder how many of us girls will feel courageous enough to have our pix in print.

I feel that the proposed theoretical section will turn out to be the most interesting of all. It might even become a valuable source of information for those who are doing scientific research on Transvestism and other phases of "different" behaviour. As a disting- uished sexologist once told me; "It is very difficult for those of us who wish to do research on TV to gather enough case histories and self-analysis material. The immense majority of TVs remain hidden and anonymous throughout their lives and extremely few of them ever approach a doctor or psychiatrist to help them find out the true nature of their peculiarity."

The truth of the matter is that very few Drs. or psychiatrists have enough knowledge about transvest- ism to be of any help. Moreover, I've yet to find one TV who'd like to be deprived of his inclination. We don't seem to wish or desire any "help". We should however, through a publication such as TRANSVESTIA supply as much information about our cases aɛ possible thus helping to increase the understanding and knowled- ge of TVism not only among scientists but among the rest of society as well.

S.V--New York