RANSVESTIA

About the only thing I haven't got the nerve up to doing is dancing with a man. A few days ago my wife and I, along with a neighbor lady, whom I call "Slim" (due to her shapely figure) went to a cock- tail lounge. I'm not sure whether I looked the part that well or if our gentlemen callers were in a slight degree of intoxication but all of us were asked to dance. One remarked, "I don't know which one to ask, they all look pretty good to me." Flattery will get you nowhere, I thought. And it didn't. I wouldn't get up. As the evening progressed we were approached three more times and I offered three more rejections. A word of caution, don't drink to excess so that you keep your wits about you. It wouldn't do to get stoned and lose your cool, displaying the masculine qualities that you are suppressing while in dress.

On several occasions I have been in the company of people from the town in which I live. They know me very well as a male but haven't the slightest conception of my femme self. They had no reason to suspect that I was anything else other than a new woman being introduced to them for the first time. Of course, dim lights do effect a shrouded atmosphere for such undertakings. I plan to continue my public excursions often as I love being taken for a woman. I do wish all the best to all sisters and their wives and if all people such as my wife and Slim would accept those of us who are different, the world would surely be a better place to live.

Sincerely,

Vikki, IL-40-M

THE SOCIETY FOR THE SECOND SELF

Referred to as TRI-SIGMA for short, this is our sorority for hetero- sexual male cross dressers. You may request a membership appli- cation after having purchased (and read) either 3 issues of TRANS- VESTIA (any three) or the book Understanding Cross Dressing. This requirement is simply to give you a chance to see if this sort of or- ganization is for you. We have members all over the country and pro- vide a correspondence service to enable them to contact each other. The sorority also published a bi-monthly newsletter The Femme Mirror.

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