guess would be that if anything there would be a lower incidence, since (1) it happend to all little boys and (2) that it puts off till a relatively late age any op- portunity for the boy to be jealous of his sister or to feel that she had any edge on him clothes-wise.)))

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On the whole, the attitude towards transvestism is more permissive in the non-Western cultures. For example Ford and Beach found among 49 out of the 76 societies un- der survey, that some form of transvestism is there "con- sidered normal and socially acceptable for certain members of the community." (((ED.NOTE: This brings up a very in- teresting thought. TVism and other forms of behavior are called "sexual deviations", and "perversions" by the medical profession in the same way as they refer to home- sexuality, bestiality etc. Yet whereas the last two can be considered as biological variations or deviations be- cause they go against the obvious biological purpose of sex, TVism, voyeurism, exhibitionism etc. are only cultur al deviations. It would be very gratuitous of a West- ern psychiatrist to visit one of the cultures mentioned above where TVism is considered "normal and socially ac- ceptable" and call it a sexual deviation. Thus medicine should distinguish between behaviors which are in oppos- ition to fund emental biology and those which are merely in opposition to the established cultural pattern of the time and place in which they occur. To put it another way, TVism as an "illness" could be cured by society's suddenly saying it was 8.K. for men to dress as women-- the problem would disappear over night, but even though society said that homosexual activities were 0.K. it would not"cure" this "illness" because it is not cult- ural in nature.)))

Transvestism is not related to any social class, though it seems to occur more frequently in children from a brok- en home, as the survey of the social and family background of

Bender and Paster's group of sexually perverted children has shown. (((The frequenty of most other forms of sexual and psychological "mis"-behavior is too.)))