Transvestia

dressed himself in one of her skirts and blouses. She found him improper and crazy. And he did not bring up the subject again. When they married, he threw away his feminine clothes and hoped that the desire to dress would disappear. Three months later it was back again: "Our sexual intercourse did not give outlet to my feminine side, to the girl within," he told me.

Together with Eva.

When I talk with TVs it is striking how often they talk about "the girl within." They see themselves as two - a masculine and a feminine person. Some of them speak about their "brother” and "sister." They say, "Tonight I am out with Eva" when they are going to dress in feminine clothes. As a matter of fact only a few dare go out among people dressed as a woman. Behind such behavior is at least one hour's work just as the makeup of an actress. To be "completely dressed" with coat and hat and able to pass as a woman in a restaurant, is a stage not reached by many. Most of them stay at home dressed in more simple clothes. For Bengt as for most other heterosexual TVs his deviation eventually became a hard problem of secrecy. He found it unthinkable to tell his wife. Each time they took a holiday a mysterious box was in the car · Bengt's feminine clothes and as soon as he was alone he changed to his feminine clothes.

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Exposed.

Once he was stopped by a traffic control and asked for his driver's license. "But it is not you," the police said. Bengt took out his medical certificate. The police read it, saluted and let him go without comments. The correct conduct of the Police in this case and in others is very satisfying to see, says Bengt. It shows an understanding which is not common everywhere in the society.

Bengt's secret was exposed to his wife a year ago. It was caused by an unforseen situation. How did she react? "First I thought all my life was spoiled. To whom had I been married? A man? A woman? A homosexual? I did not know anything about TVism. But on the other hand we had always been wonderfully happy together. I also thought of that," she explained. Inga succeeded in overcoming the shock mainly because of three factors: the constant emotional relation to Bengt, a book about the TV and his wife written by the prominent leader of the American TVs,