does not simply lie dormant. rather it "itches" to be used. This itch is not necessarily labeled, that is, one feels unfulfilled and frustrated often not realizing why. When one then engages in an activity utilizing the aptitude, he feels better. Hopefully one eventually puts "two and two together" and structures his life for aptitudinal fulfillment through appropriate vocation and hobbies.

It refuses to be ignored. O'Conner has found that people with an unusually large number of aptitudes rather than having an easier time in life tend to have much difficulty with school and problems finding jobs where they are both happy and productive.

If one looks beyond the quasi-sexual aspects of TV, the parallel with an "aptitudinal itch" becomes striking. In my own experience, for instance, when my "brother" is working in Europe extensively using his language aptitude, the TV itch is noticeably reduced. Of course I would rather be there but I do not intrude with so much pressure as otherwise.

The "incurable” nature of TV can lead us to wonder if the analyst has observed only the pathology of the individual being treated and not the fulfillment (aptitudinal gratification?) part. The statement that TV's just don't want to be cured suggests the existence of a very appropriate resistance to being "cured of a healthy condition," rather than an impliedly self-destructive holding-on to a neurosis or worse.

The concept of FP as a means of expression of our feminine nature, which we all have per Jung and others, seems to me to fall a bit short of defining the situation. Certainly it's part of the motivation and we love it, but not everyone who has cross-dressed for some reason at some time has become possessed of this passion for the feminine which we feel and express this way.

The apparent absence of an accurately defined childhood experience pattern which leads to continuing TV behavior tends to support the aptitudinal theory and also reminds us of the terrible problem of de- fining terms in this field. Research is frustrated by society's tendency to lump together FP-type TVs, drag queens, HS's in general, TS's and other cross-dressers of radically different motivation. We fight against these over-generalizations and invent useful new terms such as WGF (Whole Girl Fetishist) which may well reflect more fundamental dis- tinctions than the grouping terms in use by professional workers in the field.

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