RANSVESTIA

describe here but these facts are pretty well substantiated. At the moment this doesn't seem to have much to do with our favorite sub- ject, but wait awhile.

Almost all FPs that you either talk to or read about even in profes- sional reports say that when dressed en femme the person feels much more at ease, relaxed and comfortable and very often enjoys sewing, embroidery, cooking, housekeeping, etc., or other tasks or occupa- tions that they would not enjoy or would avoid when in their mas- culine role. One friend who gave me the key to this unknowingly one day commented that she could enjoy classical music so much more when it was "she" at the concert and not "he." I got to asking myself why and then remembered that music is resident in the right brain. But that is only one-half of the story. The other is that almost all of the qualities that the left brain specializes in are those that our society regards as being masculine. I had already been fascinated with the question as to why this was so since there is no apparent anatomical difference between male and female brains. I came up with an explanation which I have tried out on a couple of experts in this area and they conceeded that it was both reasonable and inter- esting. I'm not going into a long explanation here about it but suffice it to say that it is based on two propositions: 1) that our species has been predominantly right-handed since its beginnings regardless of why, and 2) that our species is the only one in which the female can have and be responsible for a number of immature children that need watching each about a year apart in ages. Thus the females would be totally involved in this task so that it would be the males who had to take up the problem of supplying food. (In other species one year's babies are self-supporting before the next year's arrive, but in humans the babies take so long to become self-sufficient that a mother would probably have infants of several different ages at the same time, all requiring supervision.)

When our ancestors had to become hunters, instead of plucking bananas and berries from the bushes in the forest, it became neces- sary to kill small animals. The most likely way would be to throw a stone at them and a right-handed being would throw with his right hand. Those that were good at integrating the observations of the eye with the movement of the game and the direction and strength of the throw would have some dinner and those that didn't wouldn't. Those that mastered the art would pass it on to their sons, those that couldn't, wouldn't. Thus there would have been selective pressure on males to perfect their skill at throwing. Subsequently, when they

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