not completely clear. In the first place, membership application s are sent only to those who request them--they are not to be sent broadside to all subscribers. Secondly, there are many who are not interested in a Sorority and this is fine. By the same token, there are those who are interested in it who are not necessarily ready for it. Some have poo-pooed its purposes directly to me (Virginia) and others indirectly to others who have relayed it. Let me hasten to say that this neither surprises, hurts nor disappoints me. On the contrary, it is to be expected and only proves the need of the Sorority's existence. Were all TVs true FPs and all on the same level of development like children in a given grade in school, psy- chiatry would long ago have figured out all the answers and we'd all know where we atand. However, there are degrees of development in the field of personality expression as most everywhere else. Here there are two kinds of development--one is the development of growth in understanding and acceptance, the other is simply a dev- elopment of intensity.

Some amongst our group see this development simply as one of degree and postulate stages such as; (1) the locked door, single article, erotic stage; (2) the full wardrobe-once around the block at night stage; (3) the social integration stage of shopping, try- ing on clothes, eating in restaurants, etc., stage; (4) the male escort, dining, dancing and romancing stage, leading rapidly to; (5) the completely "mixed up kid" who wants to go all the way but is inhibited due to ingrained revulsion at the idea of being a homo- sexual and who considers sex-change surgery, but fears that this isn't the answer either, who then decides he had better quit alto- gether but who finds he can't do that either, the stage 5 person therefore, finds himself blocked in all directions and just doesn't know what to do.

These stages are purely arbitrary divisions along a pathway from juvenile eroticism to middle-aged debauchery, insanity due to confusion or suicide due to desperation. They have no reality other than measures of how far one has traveled the road. Fortunately it is not necessary to travel that road to its unfortunate triple des- tination if one can come to some understanding of what is making him travel on this road at all. When this is ascertained he can see himself with some perspective and learn to accept and live with him- self at a reasonable level just the same as civilized men have tc understand and live with a lot of other motivations that, left un- fettered, would destroy him and society alike. Thus it is precisely

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