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those whose sexual orientation and activity is heterosexual and who enjoy TVism as an end in itself and not just a means to something else, as sexual deviants or variants, because the sexual orientation and performance do not deviate or vary from the accepted normal. He replied, "There can be not one reason why a man should want to wear female garments in our modern society. To doo is simply abnormal, surely we can't argue on this point. Now is this abnormality of a sexual significance? Yes, of course it is, it must be. TVism can only be explained as a sexual expression."

Now I wish to challenge this in the following way: by attempting to show that there IS one good reason why a man should want to wear female attire and while admitting that it is abnormal in a purely statistical sense, to give argu- ments that it is not primarily a sexual expression. a) It is generally recognized that all members of both sex- es have character and personality traits that are more gen- erally assigned by society to the realm of the opposite sex. b) Any person, male or female, will be happier, healthier and more at peace with the world the fewer frustrations he has to contend wit.. and the more fully he can express all his abilities, interests, and personality characteristics. c) That the development of a situation wherein a person can escape, even temporarily, from a series of inhibitions and frustrations of some deep and important desires will provide intense satisfaction. d) Society permits the fe- male much greater freedom of expression than it does the male. Thus the female does not so frequently find herself turned back from expressing herself fully, from driving a truck in blue jeans and boots to being a dainty, fragile thing of beauty in a frilly, low-cut evening dress. In short she can invade the male realm almost as deeply as she pleases and still enjoy the advantages of her own realm. e) The male is severely limited in the degree to which he can travel in a female-ward direction. As a result he has unfulfilled desires, unutilizable talents, and unexpress- ible interests--in short strong frustrations of deep per- sonality needs which causes fear, guilt and unhappiness. f) When these repressed drives find an outlet in assuming