Dear Editor:

** LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

I would like to present some thoughts on the subject that concerns all of us, namely what has caus- ed my intense desire to wear feminine clothes. I have been cross-dressing completely for seven years at every opportun- ity I get. One year prior to that I destroyed all my own shorts and began wearing panties which I have done ever since. I will explain how this came about.

My wife and I dressed as nearly alike as possible while going together. We exchanged gifts of slacks, shirts, and jackets alike. I love her dearly and so shortly after we were married, I suggested that we also wear matching panties I also pointed out that I thought it would be assurance for her of my faithfulness. She said she thought the sugges- tion was wonderful and so from that day on we wore matching panties also, I so enjoyed buying and giving my wife all items of apparel. We often shopped together and on one oc- casion when my wife was buying a skirt I asked her if she would get one for me too. She did this and seemed delight- ed in doing so. That was the beginning of my cross-dress- ing. This was not the cause or reason though as I had the secret desire to do so for many years.

I recall in my early teen years of having a fantasy of a young boy being raised as a girl. I will pause here to say that five years ago I visited a psychiatrist whom I felt would be sympathetic as he was fighting a proppsed ord- inance n Denver to forbid cross dressing. In our short visit he said that this fantasy of mine could be the reason for my desire. He further said that if I did not want to refrain from my desire that there would be no point in spend- ing a lot of money with him and that I should not supress the desire as he knew of a suicide because of suppression

I have read many case histories where the transvestite claims to have been kept in dresses to a late age and that this caused the desire, I can well believe that this could happen, but in my case I have asked my mother and she tells me I was not kept in dresses I also asked her if I had