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in one degree or another. Only 22 (221%) were completely an- tagonistic (14 or 14.3% were not reported upon) These figures are very interesting and should give some encouragement to those TVs who are not married but are hopeful of finding a woman who will understand. I expect it is largely a matter of how it is presented to her that determines her attitude.

No less than 76 or 54 2% of those reporting venture out in public on their own I did not break it down as to frequency.

As a final measure of the masculinity present in TVs and something else to confuse the "experts" is the fact that only 30 or 21.5% of us would undergo a sex change operation under any of a variety of conditions while 96 or 681% flatly stated that they would not. This again emphasizes the clinical ident ity of TVism as distinct from homosexuality and transexualism. The group presently subscribing to TVia and returning their questionaires would appear to be reasonably homogeneous since only 17% have experienced bondage and only 12% domination and even with these it can not necessarily be deduced that their main interest is masochism

Lastly just out of curiosity I listed the girl names chosen to see if there were any particular names that appeal ed over a large group. With the exception of Betty with 5; Barbara with 4, and Alice, Carol, Helen, and Joan with 3 each the choice spreads all over the field.

So what conclusions can be drawn from these results?

I believe that they clearly support two important contentions regarding TVism (1) The low incidence of childhood experience usually considered to be the formative time, and the high inci- dence of first TVistic experience from the age of 10 on--even after adolescence tend to show that the generally accepted ex- planations probably are not generally applicable and that the real root causes will be found elsewhere. My personal feelings are that they will be found to be psycho-social in nature (2) The relatively lower admission of homosexual activities than in the general population combined with the high evalua- tion of the self as heterosexual and with a high marriage and parenthood rate to support it, plus the small number who have (Continued on page 76)