tied in with the sexual process that the individual is either impotent without his fetish or, at a minimum, its presence though perhaps not essential greatly increases the satisfactions obtained.
Others out of curiosity, interest or whatever gradually add other pieces of clothing until they find their full satisfaction in wearing every- thing from hair to heels. Yet the experience is essentially only an erotic one even though the erotic aspects may become less evident as time goes on. Such persons have been termed "Whole girl fetishits" meaning that the complete feminine costume is necessary for greatest pleasure. This class of cross dresser generally has no particular feelings of femi- ninity; he doesn't feel himself when dressed to be very different from what he usually is, and his general behavior bears this out. That is, he makes no particular effort to act in a feminine way or to present him- self as anything other than a male in dresses, makeup and wig. If he smokes cigars or a pipe as a man he is likely to want to do so as a "girl" and he will talk about the same things and in the same way as he would in pants and jacket. He sits with legs apart and walks in heels just the way he would walk as a man. In short he is wearing the clothing and giving the outward appearance of a woman but he has no real sense of having left his masculine self in any other way and has no great inner feeling of expressing a new, different, feminine part of himself.
The others, and I think this is the largest group, have something else in common but vary widely in its intensity and development. I refer to feelings of femininity above and beyond the merely visual and tactile satisfactions of wearing the clothes. It might be termed the psychological level as opposed to the physical and erotic level. I don't mean to imply that this different level of feminine feeling supercedes and replaces the erotic aspects. It does not, because the erotic feelings are there and probably will be there although in declining intensity until the indi- vidual is “over the hill" sexually in his older years. The more psychic feminine feelings begin in a very small way and at various times de- pending on the individual's circumstances. Those that look well enough to begin to go out in public or at least to be seen by other people while dressed, at parties, in the home, or wherever, will, of necessity begin to have some sort of interpersonal interaction with other people. As this continues and increases quantitatively (frequency) and qualitatively (intensity) the individual more and more becomes aware of herself as being in some way and to some degree different from himself. The clothing, makeup, hairdo, etc. are a sort of catalyst that make it possible for the individual to begin slowly to circumvent and escape from the stereotypic masculine feeling and behavior patterns. It becomes gradu-
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