Transvestia

Type 1. I would list these as the true deviates and homosexuals. They are the men who wear rouge and lipstick, pluck their eyebrows and simulate women only in a very superficial way.. enough to in- dicate to their homosexual friends that they prefer the passive role in their relations. This group includes the exhibitionists and other low deviates. These men merely assume a superficial feminine role in order to satisfy their physical sexual desires. In their hearts there is no real desire to be women. They want to be men only they are happier to achieve their sexual satisfaction in an unnatural feminine manner and through association with other men and not women.

Type 2. In this class we find the professional female impersonators, the men who are so skilled at simulating all the feminine mannerisms and outward appearances that they are able to make a living in the theatrical world through this skill. There is a considerable over-lapping in this as well as in all of the classes I describe. Many of the members of type 2, I am sure, have drifted into this category through chance, although they are really true members of type 1. They have found that it pays them to assume such a remarkably close resemblance to women in dress and actions. But the strong desires to be a genuine member of the female sex in not there. As we approach type 3, we find that there is an over- lapping in this direction also by the members of type 2.

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Type 3. I describe this division as the 'period- ic femme-male'. In other words there are times when they have a heart rending desire to be completely and truly women. Outwardly completely normal and leading a man's life in every way, they still main- tain a secret feminine wardrobe in which they can dress themselves when the overpowering urge to be a woman strikes them. This drive, it seems, corresponds closely to a woman's menstrual cycle. There are periods of approximately a week's duration occurring

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