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the role of the woman by way of her clothes, mannerisms and perquisites, in short by "becoming" a woman and there- fore being relieved of the limitations and repressions acting on him as a man, the satisfaction and pleasure is of such a magnitude as to trigger the "deep satisfaction reaction" referred to in Part I, i.e. erection. This is,

of course, aided and abetted by the fact that the purely male part of the individual is in close psychological as well as physical contact with a portion of the female world which in itself tends to trigger the same reaction. g) Once the sex reflex is aroused, the male is not comfort- able until the tension is released, and this accounts for the contention that TVism is primarily and generally a sexual phenomenon. h) This development is not the same as fetishism as some would contend. There is a big difference between doing something for the purpose of arousing a sex- ual reaction that perhaps could not be roused without this aid, and having the sexual reaction aroused as a result of doing something. The former is fetishism pure and simple, the latter simply an overflow of deep emotional satisfac- tion into the channels in which intense feelings are usually expressed. This explanation tends to be substantiated by the degree to which sexual response falls off as the TV has more frequent, continuous or uninhibited access and op- portunity for dressing in feminine attire. It should be stated again that this explanation applies to the True TV but not necessarily or necessarily completely to those in whom cross-dressing is incidental to some other kind of motivation or behavious such as masochism, sadism, homo- sexuality, fetishism, infantilism, etc.

I hope that those who read this will see my points in these two apparently unrelated developments: (A) TVism is not a deviation of sexual expression, and (B) it is not even primarily a sexual expression at all, being more properly a drive of the personality towards a more femin- ine and therefore more ego-satisfying (and socially perm- issable) expression. In a completely equalitarian society where males and females were entirely equal and free to express all aspects of personality, TVism would disappear. Sincerely, VIRGINIA