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stopped as for those who have bought a number of issues and who are continuing members of the Sorority. Those who did not continue were looking for something other than what TRANSVESTIA offered them.

I began this magazine to serve a cause; I suffered consider- able embarrassment, and financial loss for a cause; have made a large personal sacrifice for a cause and spent an enormous amount of time for this cause. I have done so because I believe that

this cause needs to be served. Just what is this cause? It is that of building up knowledge, understanding, and, in small ways with individual people, acceptance of the behavior pattern common- ly called Transvestism, and dignity, acceptance and self respect among the people who practice it. These people, their wives, par- ents, and friends are the audience--the targets at which this mag- azine is directed. It is not directed at nor intended for homo- sexuals, bondage enthusiasts, domination addicts, masochists of other types, fetishists, exhibitionists or any of a variety of other kinds of people. Subscribers to the magazine may be intereste in one or more of these other fields, and may find the contents of TVia interesting as well, but the magazine itself will not be aimed at any of these fields. If, then, the magazine is designed only transvestites, it is necessary to define the term at least for the purposes of the magazine.

The persons towards which this magazine is aimed are those whose sexual interest is oriented toward the female but who never- theless find great peace, comfort, relaxation and inner satisfact- ion from the expression of the feminine part of their personalities through the medium of the wearing of feminine attire and symbol- ically becoming women. Other persons may adopt feminine attire for various other reasons, and may be said to be "transvesting" or cro58 dressing when they do, but they are not TRANSVESTITES as such unless they are heterosexual in orientation and their principle and proba- bly sole digression from the ordinary lies in their desire to ex- press their feminine self.

If the target of the efforts of Transvestia is this type of person, it is desirable to devise a terminology which will be de- scriptive of this type and not of others. At the same time, it is very much in order to refrain from the use of terminology which