something more solid on this subject in a future colum.

Right now however I am thinking of the pleasures that come our way when we form TV friendships. There is so much freedom to be oneself and talk frankly and openly, to say nothing of the fascinating bits of information we uncover. Just the other day a new TV dropped in to see me. Eva is engaged in the fantastic task of creating a life-like form padding for hips and upper thighs. The way she describes her research efforts up to the present put a gleam in any TV's eyes. The job is not yet completed, but she says it will look and feel like real flesh, none of this foam rubber mess we are all stuck with. I promise to let you all know how it comes out when (and if) it is completed. Eva however impresses me as the kind of person who will finish the job. She is a true perfection- ist.

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I imagine most of you gals have read Dr. Iris' article in TVia 23 entitled 'The Making of a TV." If you have a nasty little mind (like mine ) you'll think how on earth did Virginia let such a subject be printed" ..but after you read the article you realize that the title had. another meaning. All kidding aside, Dr I ris has come. up with some very stimulating thoughts... and if she does not mind I'd like to enter here my disagreements as well as my congratulations. I heartly endorse the last stage which she describes as the Creative Stage" in the life of a TV. That's great. But I could not disagree more violently with her first" Sexual Stage". I feel that this is a attempt to over-simplify a very complex subject and to skip a fundamental mystery which still awaits for a firm answer.

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Dr. Iris says that at some point in his life the potent- ial TV makes his acquaintance with female clothing, usually underwear." The trick here is in the word "potent- ial". What makes some boys potential TV's ? What

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is absent from those who are not "potential"? We all know that the immense majority of boys make this acquaint- ance quite early in life. They see their female relatives around the house, they comtemplate lingerie hanging in the bathroom, and quite a few of them in games, at Hallo- ween, or just for the devil of it, don a dress or skirt.

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