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VIRGIN VIEWS--by Virginia *****

I have two problems to discuss this time. One is the matter of sex and Transvestism, and the other is a reply to a long distance discussion I have been carrying on with one of our readers on the subject of whether TVism is a "sexual deviation". These two subjects seem to me to be related and I will try to show how, but it requires making several aparently unrelated points first.

Part I. a) after hunger and self preservation the sexual instinct is the next strongest drive in animals and man. Fut another way, the need for the female is the greatest need of the heterosexual male after the needs for food and self preservation. b) The most intense emotional feel- ings are attached to the most fundemental instinctive drives so that for the male anything related to the female is di- rectly connected to a source of basic and primative emotion- al energy. Whether this energy is released or not depends on circumstances, but the potential is there. c) In the male, nature has so arranged it that the automatic physio- logical response to the release of this emotional energy is erection. were it not so the human and other species would have died out long ago. d) Circumstances which provide sufficiently intense emotional pleasure and satisfaction will provoke a sexual response since this is the instinc- tive and automatic response to a strong enough stimuli. Thus there are cases where the viewing or experiencing of some especially beautiful or poignant scene such as an extremely unusual sunset is accompanied by erection and in some cases orgasm. Extreme excitement can do the same thing--certain individuals experiencing such a response while watching a large fire etc. e) The conclusion of this section is that when emotional satisfaction is deep enough its intensity is of the same order as the male-fe- male attraction and therefore keys in to the same reflex response, namely erection.

Part II. I took the position with my correspondent that it was not correct to refer to what I term True TVs, i.e.