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abnormal woman who is rare, it is the so-called normal. Normality is merely a statistical average, 80 we all de- part from this average in some way or other. Some women are more philosophical about the relations between the sexes and are therefore able to see TVism as a manifest- ation of a personality drive in their husband (one which is not without advantages incidentally) not as a threat.)) You ask for comments on "Virgin Views" in TVia #7. That is an amazing article, most thought provoking and extremely constructive. But just what I do think of it I honestly don't know. Have read it carefully two times, with an interval in between, and I still don't know. At moments it seems to sparkle, in other spots it leaves me puzzled or grasping for something that isn't quite there. When I said "thought provoking" I said so with sincerity. Perhaps an article that makes one really think and puzzle is best after all--that one surely does so,

But Virginia, it seems to me you missed one point that I consider vital. Narcissus, if I remember my Myth- ology, fell in love with his own image--that is, of himself as he actually was. So a true definition of Narcissism would, if we follow mythology, be a person completely self- centered. Your "Femiphile" is not in the least interested in his image as he actually is, but rather in his image as an entirely different person--so different as to be a men- ber of the other sex. He is that woman--there she stands before him in the mirror--but at the same time he remains himself. When he is young he has vigorous erotic feelings toward that woman. As he ages, like any married couple, that vigor is no longer physically possible and so he lives with that woman on a basis of mutual understanding. But the elemental sexual desire for that woman is present, no mafter how diluted by passing years. By any standards the one common denominator in your "Femiphile" is that sexual attraction toward the woman that the Femiphile becomes.

((Again I beg leave to point something out--it is true that sexual attraction underlies all other relationships between the sexes. Because the Femiphile likes and wishes