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BOOK REVIEWS

Apart from one or two novels on tranvestism (“I Want What I Want“ etc.) it is difficult to find novels or stories written by those outside the transvestite world which deal with the subject in a balanced manner. Transvestism receives a certain amount of attention in thrillers where the hero must be disguised for a certain period or occasion. Or a popular theme is for the main characters to meet in a night club where, inevitably, the main floor show is a female impersonator.

It was a pleasant surprise to find (strangely enough by accident) a rather luridly titled and covered book called THE RAVISHERS by Merle Ellen Browne, published by the New English Library. (This is a hardback version.)

Briefly the novel concerns the adventures of four heterosexual athletes whose love (or sex) life has become somewhat jaded. To liven it up they agree by means of a substantial wager to carry out some rather bizarre situations. In substance the object is to bed a girl within a short period in a number of unusual (and unlikely) places. These include the President's bed in the White House, the passenger section of an airliner in flight and (the main interest in the book) in the women's waiting room of New York's Grand Central Station.

The main interest to me at least, lies in the third story, almost com- pletely transvestite in both technique and content and concerns the ploys used by our hero(ine) to breach the female bastion of a women's waiting room. This finishes with a happy ending from our point of view. Although the story is written by a woman (a New York model) she has certainly experienced or has had help with the transvestite portions of the book and it is certainly worth obtaining.

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