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individual harbors a yen to cut loose and be "wild", The free wheeling playboy would sometimes rather like to calm down and take it easy but his friends expect him to be what he has a reputation for being and if he is not they think he is slipping or sick. All of us have within us a little yearning to be something other than what we are--at least for a little time. This might well be termed the Cinderella Complex. The repression of this yearning is, I am sure, one of the causes of true schizophrnia--cases of the " Three Faces of Eve" type. People are so bound by social expect- ancy that they cannot let themselves go on a conscious know- ing level and so when the pressure for change becomes too great they make the change on a subconcious level and go into an unreal world of imagination--the withdrawn schizo- phrenic type or into a real but unknown (to the regular self) world of the multiple personality.

The applicability of this to TVs is as said before much the same as escape from masculinity requirements but on the non-gender level--escape from being YOU. When mak- ing an escape the further you can get from the scene of your incarceration the more successful the escape. So how can a human go further than changing sex, age, appearance, habits, mannerisms, interests, activities, as is done when a male person becomes a "feminine" one? This, of course, has two aspects (1) he feels different within himself, and (2) he is aware of a different treatment of "her" by other people Since a large portion of our waking reality in- volves our interpersonal relations, the discovery that others treat you differently, that they look at you with different thoughts in their minds, that they expect diff- erent things of you--all of this provides escape from the social expectancy attached to your everyday self by the acquisition of an entirely different set of social expect- ations for your new self.

So now we have discussed what to me are the five main streams of motivation that underly true transvestism. But the reader may still ask why aren't there more TVs than there are (who knows how many there are-we keep secret and hidden so long and so successfully) and why do the child-