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And why, in our stories, is the person doing the dominating always a woman? Becuase we are heterosexual that's why! Whether or not there is any sex in these stories, there is always the subtle implication of it. If for no other reason than the dominant/submissive roles. A dominant male by implication would be able to take advantage of the situation, and we are not interested in that sort of thing, but a female!, well that's a different fashion show.

As far as stories regarding Astrology and Reincarnation, my exper- ience is rather limited in that regard. I just haven't encountered any so I can only hypothesize. At one time I made quite a comprehensive study of Astrology. I have not done much with it lately but during my period of attention there were a number of things that were too coincidental to be a result of chance but there was no other way to explain it. Be that as it may, never in my studies have there been any indication that a person should have been born a woman instead of a man, at least as far as the stars are concerned. There is nothing in Astrology that says a person should be born one sex or the other. I know because I once read a book.

Reincarnation is something else. I have no intimate knowledge of the subject. I have some friends that are very much believers and I argue a lot without specific knowledge. My one thesis against Reincarnation is that about half of the people ever born are alive today. Do souls multiply at the same rate as the population? Regardless of its rationality I can imagine some very good potentialities in a story on this subject. It could make a very good psychological type mind twister. Unfortunately, most of the authors I have encountered writing transvestite stories are quite incapable of doing justice to a story that would be this involved.

After all is said and done, there is no harm for most of us to read stories of punishment, "forced feminization" or any other subject as long as we realize that it is only fiction. The extreme personality type that may be effected by this type of literature is probably imbalanaced in any event.

The thing I do object to is the quality of the literature. I as well as most of us have read these stories at various times. Invariably I am dis- appointed in the lack of grammar, rationality and characterization. I am not expecting a classic in literature or a "book of the month" club selec- tion on this subject. However, I would like to find something that is not an insult to my intelligence.

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