OBSERVATIO

by Virginia

THERE IS...

MUCH TO...

BE DONE...

TRANSVESTIA can be either just an information and entertainment type magazine like LIFE or it can be a participation type and spokesman for our group. I don't mean so much that the magazine itself will be spokesman, as I do that it can be the means of gathering information about our field of interest for further dissemination by any appropriate means.

There is much information to be gathered. The questionaire sent out to nearly everybody is a case in point. If you haven't returned one please do as I want to have 500 of these to hit the medical profession with. Maybe that will be a big enough noise.

But apart from the various historical and develope- mental aspects of TVism as covered in the questionaire there is another very important field. The head shrinkers have their own ideas as to WHY we do this and many of their ideas are contradicted by the results of the quest- ionaire. However, destroying their ideas is only half the story, we have to find out for ourselves what the mo- tivations and satisfactions are. This should help us in understanding ourselves, but it will also go hand in hand with the information of the questionaire in helping others to understand us too. I, therefore, elicit your coope- ration. Please do a little introspective thinking and try to come up with what really provides the satisfaction to you in cross dressing. What does the temporary adoption of femme attire really do for you. I emphasize really be- cause I am as aware as you are of all the old simple off- the-top answers about comfort, color, etc. I know there are deeper reasons and I want to find them out, so please help my efforts in this way. Write on a separate sheet Thanks, Virginia

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