by Virginia

It is sometimes hard for your Editor and for those who have been subscribing to the magazine for a long time, to remember that we have a great many readers who have joined our ranks in the last couple of years. We "oldies" tend to use terms whose definitions and derivations were explained in the older issues of the magazine which new readers probably haven't seen. It seems appropriate therefore to define some of the terms and explain their origin briefly for the benefit of our more recently joined sisters.

"TV" and "TVia": Both of these are probably obvious but are included for the sake of completeness and clarity. Naturally "TV" is short for Transvestite. It is handy to use when talking among "squares" since they generally would not get the meaning. "TVia" is just an abbreviation for the magazine name, "TRANVESTIA" saves space.

"F.P." "Femme Personator" and "Femmiphile". The initials "F.P." are an abbreviation of the other two words. These two words (spelled just as shown) were coined in an attempt to escape from the word transvestite since it is all too frequently used to refer to homosexuals or transsexuals that affect feminine attire. Literally Femme Personator was devised originally as "one who personates, or gives life to his own inner feminine self". Femmiphile means "lover of the feminine" for an individual and "Femmiphillia" would be the name of the condition such as Transvestism or Eonism (the latter, incidently, is the name given the behavior pattern by Havelock Ellis, The great English Sexologist. Transvestism was coined by Magnus

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