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And now, an OPEN LETTER to our Editor: Dear Virginia: Our conversation during my recent visit to your place seems so important that I feel it should be put on paper, especially since there has been so much discussion of your article in TVia No. 52. In that issue, you summed up your findings as to who you are, where you're at and where you're going - and seemed rather surprised to find that I agreed with you despite my known bias towards a physical theory of TV. We actually are in much closer agreement than our recent exchange of open letters seemed to indicate, since each of us took a somewhat extremist stance to make our points. You are primarily interested in the environmental effects that cause a TV to develop but grant the need for predisposition along TV lines for these effects to produce our kind. My main interest was, and still is, in the nature of the predisposition. Regardless of that nature, I think we are in good agreement that each male is born with a certain amount of femininity POTENTIAL in him. This would range from 0% in those recently discovered "super-males" with XYY chromosomes, who have about the same outlook as a bull - all aggression and sex drive, which results in their spending most of their time in jails. Most men take one of two courses with their femininty; either they repress it, with resulting ulcers, nightmares etc., or they sublimate it as Brian Moore does into socially acceptable lines. And then there are those who must express it physically . . . For the sake of having numbers, let us assign the fetishists the range 10-30% F. No more on them, but next comes what I call the "All-Girl fetishists", who dress completely but get a thrill out of it which is at least complicated by erotic overtones. Let us call this group 30-50% F - and I can speak freely about them, because I'm their self-appointed representative. Maybe we aren't TVs by Stroller's definition, but we can pass pretty well when we want to which is seldom. Then we have a more strongly motivated group, say 50-70% F, who constitute the main bulk of FPE members, and go out to pass quite often. At the end of the line, we have you and a dozen or so others like you in the real tradition of the Chevalier d'Eon, who tend to stay dressed for long periods. I would put you at 70-80% F. And, confusingly, we have the TVs, at 90-100% F, who seem to be part of us but eventually prove that they are NOT.