those who will consider this very self-centered and conceited--and such charges have been made in one way or another--but it isn't. It's just that I've been along this road, I know the landmarks and the sharp curves, the view from the highland as well as the gloom from the depths. I feel capable of providing some gui- dance and understanding to those who are like myself and it is for you that I write. Others may buy and en- joy the magazine and they will certainly not be turned away, but the heart of the thing, the idea behind all the activities I have initiated remains the same. Find them in their loneliness, free them from their guilt, guide them toward self-acceptance and release them to enjoy a fuller awareness of the totality of being a hu-

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I am convinced that there are thousands more like you who read these lines who have not yet been found and there always will be, for the motives behind this behaviour pattern are far more fundamental things in modern culture than the "authorities" realize and they are gradually being found through other programs and researches not even remotely related to TVism as such. So my efforts will continue to be aimed exclusively at trying to promote the understanding of this phenomenon both by its participants and by professional groups and to try to relate our position to the findings of others who are also concerned with the study of gender roles in our society. I believe that there is something deep and important underlying this pattern which is far more natural and reasonable than generally thought, so I cannot give up space to those who cry "sick, sick"; who consider TV a perversion or who think of us as "latent" homosexuals.

In some quarters this is considered to be an arbi- trary attitude on my part, of thinking that I am right and being unwilling to listen to other points of view. In fact one of our long time readers, who has a decid- edly different point of view from mine, indicated very strongly in a recent letter that my unwillingness to devote space in TVia to such divergent opinions was a measure of the insubstantial and probably erroneous nature of my position since I was not willing to expose my readers to other points of view. I think that this

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