expression). Only 6% would enjoy domination by another person and only 1% enjoyed bondage.

It is interesting that fully 3/4 of the respondents reported that they did not just feel like themselves dressed up while wearing feminine clothing but rather as a different personality. Over half the group stated that they liked their feminine self better than their masculine side only 1/4 preferred their masculine self. Thus therapists dealing with the problem are, in most cases, trying to persuade the patient, in one way or another to accept the least satisfactory self concept simply because it conforms to social expectations and to reject the more satisfactory one. This is hardly an optimistic base for therapy. The therapist would do better to help the individual to accept his feminine side and to integrate "her" into his total life.

Since the TV himself is aware of the general social attitude toward males who adopt feminine attire, he leads a very isolated, lonely life, swamped in fears, shame, self doubt, and guilt. Most of us have a long history of broken promises to ourselves that we would stop the ridiculous practice. It is characteristic to have periodic paroxysms of guilt which we call "purges" in which we give away or destroy all the clothing and swear to ourselves we'll never do it again. But who can the TV talk to? Certainly not parents, siblings, teachers, ministers or other counsellors. The majority of these people being generally even more ignorant of the true facts than the TV himself would in many cases actually push him further into isolation and withdrawal by their failure to understand and/or their expressed of implied accusation of homosecuality.

The only other possible person to turn to is a doctor, especially a psychiatrist. Unfortunately in a great many cases he is of no more and often less help than lay people. If he really understands he can of course reassure the patient and help him adjust to the problem. But if he doesn't his official position and supposedly great knowledge give so much weight to his opinion that it is accepted as correct even if it isn't. My own first marriage was destroyed because a psychiatrist told my wife that I undoubtedly was a homosexual and that she had best get a divorce I have never had a homosexual experience either then nor in the 15 years since. I had previously been to 6 different psychiatrists