there is.

Of all religions the Catholic religion pays the most homage and respect to a feminine deity. This means that Catholics are more able to relate beauty, femininity and divinity to each other than are members of other religious groups. Thus the urge to express some of this grace and beauty has an easier route because psycholo- gically femininity too is divine. Guilt is probably somewhat less because the robes, stoles, surplices, and other accutrement of the Pope, the cardinals, the bishops, etc. are of themselves of a more feminine cut, design and beauty. The idea of male persons attiring themselves in gowns, satins, lace, brilliant colors, etc. is part of their experience since early childhood and would appear to make the contrast between masculine and feminine clothing less stark. Thus I would expect that it would be somewhat easier for a Catholic boy to cross the line and become a TV than for those of various pro- testant sects. The difference between 28 and 33% is not great but I feel that it is significant and would be born out in a larger sam- ple. There was no way in which any section of the country or grour of TVs was favored in this poll. I just took the first 100 return - ed questionnaires.

On the other side is the somewhat lower percentage of Jewish TVs than the population. In the Jewish faith there are many things that the young Jewish boy must do in the course of the family rit- uals and ceremonies that a daughter cannot do. He becomes there- fore to have greater regard for masculinity because it is importar r in a religious way, For those who do not know, it takes 10 Jews tc form a Synagogue, but all 10 must be males, females do not count. At the same time when the young Jewish boy reaches the age of 13 he goes through the ceremony of Bar Mitzvah which is the ceremony celebrating his arrival at the age of responsibility and of relig- ious obligations. Since these obligations and duties in rituals are only carried on by males, the Bar Mitzvah is more or less equiv-

alent to the boy's admission into manhood. It serves, in a sense,

as a graduation ceremony from childhood and society awards him a figurative diploma certifying that he is now a man. Thus even a boy who has difficulties in role identification in his own mind, would in effect be certified by society as being a man. This relat- ively greater importance and responsibility of the male and the re- latively secondary position of the female combine, I believe, to diminish the motivations leading to TVism in other groups and acc- ounts for the lower incidence of the phenomenon in the Jewish com- munity.

The survey shows 23% as having attended college, the census 55.