feminine attire, and 6% were kept longer in curls. That individuals treated in any or all of these ways do occur and that they show up in the clinicians office is not to be denied, but such persons are more likely, it would seem, to have additional emotional troubles which help to bring them to the therapists couch. It is not good science or sense to project the causative factors found in such persons to everyone else with the same behaviour pattern, yet this is what is to be found repeatedly in the literature.

The age of first TV experience also provides some illuminating results. The literature uniformly points to the origin of TVism in early childhoods. In our study 14% reported starting before 5 years, 40% between 5 and 10; 37% between 10 and 18 years and 8% after 18. While it is undeniable that many TVs do have their beginnings when very small, the fact that 45% or almost half had their first experience after the age of 10, makes it evident that whatever may be claimed to be the primal cause of the TV urge, it is certainly something capable of occurring at almost any age.

Considering the small number beginning before 5 years; the small group reporting the specific conditioning factors reported in the literature; the relatively small number reporting divorce, poor father images or dominant mothers during their childhood, it becomes obvious that the etiologic ideas advanced in the literature are very largely wrong. Much more research needs to be done with a clear and open mind without preconceived theories. There are many psycho-social influences that come to bear on males, increasingly at adolescense and after, which may have a hand in bringing about transvestism. These have been given but slight consideration in the literature of the subject.

Cross dressing is practiced to one degree or another by several other different types of persons. To indicate that the group under investigation was a rather highly "purified" sample of "true" transvestites, that is heterosexual transvestites without many other conflicting patterns; only 2% classed themselves as homosexual (9% said they were bisexual). Only 14% said that they would seriously consider sex change surgery at the present time (and many of these are not really trans-sexuals but misguided TVs who for lack of adequate counselling feel that that is the only path to free and unrestricted feminine