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results ran from 17 to 47% on various articles of at- aire) I thought this would be a good distinguishing question and it was. Not only the denial but the con- siderable emotion with which the whole idea was dis- missed was very revealing.

Here are the questions asked and the results:

1. How often do you dress?

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Ans. From 2 to 12 times per year, always for parties. What do you wear underneath the dress?

Ans. Shorts-13; Panties-1; Nothing-1.

Do you enjoy being dressed when by yourself? Ans. Yes-2; No-13.

Would you enjoy being mistaken for a woman by a man? Ans. Yes-6; No-8; No ans.-1.

Do you go out as a woman?

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No-14; Occasionally-1.

Do you get any sexual thrill from dressing? Ans. No-15.

Which developed first, being gay or dressing? Ans. Being gay-12; Dressing-2; Same time-1. Do you try to be feminine in all ways or just as to appearance? Ans. All ways-6; Appearance-9. Would you like to live all time as a woman even without men? Yes-1: No-14. (The yes vote was from same one that said she wore panties beneath) 10. Do you ever have any sex experiences while in fem- ine attire: Yes-0; No-15.

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I said I questioned 16 persons and the above re- sults only show a total of 15. The reason for this is that one of those I talked to gave all the "wrong" an- swers. By the time I had asked the first 6 questions and gotten uniformly opposite answers to the others I stopped and told this person, "I've got news for you! You are not homosexual!" She looked rather surprised and said some thing like, "well, I'm not sure, I don't know." I went on to tell her that she was probably under the impression that any man who had feminine interests must be homosexual a that the only place she could find any understandi of her interests was

in gay circles. She nodded as nt to this and I con- tinued to tell her that there w re thousands of per-

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