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the mere putting on of a female dress brings pleasurable sensations, often accompanied by erection and ejaculation, without any active masturbation. Wilson's transvestite (101, 102) stated, "I always masturbated in these clothes" (i.e. in the clothes of his sister and mother), and added "I had associated my desire to be feminine with masturbation Such statements and observations led Karpman to the conclu- sion that transvestism was often a form of stimulation in heterosexually inadequate individuals, to obtain a fuller gratification during masturbation. A similar view was expressed by Dukor.....

The hetero-sexual type. The study of literature leaves the impression that most transvestites in the Western type of culture belong to this group. Benjamin also thinks that, "Transvestites...are in the majority heterosexual." Yet Hirschfeld, an authority on this subject, gives the following approximate distribution of the sexual expression among male transvestites: "about 35%..are homosexual and an equal percentage heterosexual, while about 15 are bisex- ual. The remaining 15% are mostly automonosexual and a small proportion of asexuals." Hamburger's figures are very similar (3% hetero-, 40% homo-, (19% latent and 21% overt) and 21% bi, auto-, and a-sexual.

(((ED NOTE: Such statements I find very rediculous and exasperating. If one wished to say that of ALL homo or hetero sexual individuals "x"% of them indulged in cross-dressing it would make sense since it would be like saying "63% of all women smoke"--meaning that 63% of a certain type of human being engaged in the special form of behavior called smoking. But to me Transvesism is an entity in itself (and we had better call it Eonism to get a specific name for it since transvestism is only a latin way of saying cross-dressing. I feel that Eonism should be a term defining a specific and single form of behaviour engaged in by otherwise normal people. Then there would be no such thing as a "homosexual Eonist" be- cause the individual primarily differs from so-called "normals" by being homosexual. Such a homosexual person might indulge in cross-dressing but would not be an Eorist for doing so. Such a distinction would clarify things.)))