Book Review

by Sheila (30-B-2) FPE

SEX LIFE OF A TRANSVESTITE, by Larry Maddock, Century Book #003, K.D.S. Publishing Co., 157 pp. Hollywood, California, Paperback, 75¢, 1964.

The public confusion surrounding the TV world will be, at best, only a little cleared by this pseudo-scien- tific book, despite it's pretense at being authoritative. The author, according to Doris 32-G-4, is a bearded non-TV. He seems to have approached Chevalier for in- formation while posing as one of us, however. The re- sulting book is a curious mixture of authentic and very spurious knowledge; it purports to be the transcript of twelve tape recorded interviews with a TV, one of them being with "her", dressed and speaking as the secondary personality. It is evident that these adventures of "Leonard- Connie" are inconsistent, and may well have been patched together from a number of case histories and sensational fantasies. The best parts were probably gleaned from Chevalier.

The central story is that of a transvestite, but of one who is less masculine than we see in most of our friends. He is very prone to sadomasochistic fantasy, bondage style; leads a rather wild life as an artist who is seduced by several of his models, goes through a brief and disastrous marriage, and settles down to life with Connie as a steady arrangement. So far, not bad; but the editorial comments are sadly confused. The "Introduction by Dr. Albert Ellis" promised on the cover never appears; instead, a long quote from his paper in the Journal Of Clinical Psychology is given late in the book, There is a chapter "analysing" TV groups and magazines which makes little or no sense, and other curious inconsistencies.

Personally, I should not care to be regarded in the public eye as being the same as Connie. However, it is at least a lot better than being confused with the denizens of City Of Night", so I can't complain too much.

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