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considered to be an aspect of "Nature". The value of a given article to a fetishist is, I am certain, dependent on events in his past that served to attach libidinous value to some otherwise inert and to him useless article. Thus it is absurd and below wasting time and space on to assert the fact that a man is sexually aroused by, and possibly impotent without, a pair of lace panties, as being due to a pre-natal condition of any kind. How do molecules of hormones and brain cells know when nylon or rayon began to be worn in order to switch the individual's attraction to it instead of to long cotton drawers which used to be worn?

6) I don't claim any personal knowledge of the elec- troencephalogram but I have talked to some who do and that is what I based my comment on. I don't know what Gisele brought back but I'm so bold as to say that Sheila's assertion that they "have 'the girl' quite definitely located in the right temperal lobe" is a lot of balony and wishful thinking on her part. Since one cannot describe or really know what "the girl" is how can they locate "her". Because one in- vents a name for something as an aid to communication as Susanna did when she coined the phrase, "the girl within", it does not simultaneously create a physical reality. Whatever pattern Gisele came up with is characteristic of Gisele and for the moment nothing more. If they ever do become substantiated the pat- terns will measure some generalized quality or abil- ity, certainly nothing specific. TVism is an answer to a need, a discovery of a lost part of the self. It is, so to speak, a symptom of something more basic not the thing itself and it is time we stopped con- cerning ourselves with the surface symptoms and got down to a study of the underlying and basic factors involved in TVism.

7) & 8) Here the two points of view begin to merge. I say "begin" because it is only a tendency not an accomplishment. Where Sheila uses the match, the draught and the forest fire, I have often used the

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