Ransvestia

Dear Virginia

I am enjoying your publications. I didn't know that you or TVia existed until a month or so ago, and I've been a TV (actually an FP) for 40 plus years!

From my limited reading on the subject, I've come to the conclusion I'm probably a typical FP case, and I'm sure my cross-dressing inclinations were inborn. My earliest recollection of childhood was at age five or six, when I swiped my sister's panties and was discovered wearing them by my kindergarten classmates.

I have always been fascinated by lingerie and longed to wear feminine clothes, but kept these desires pretty much in the background thru childhood, college, military duty, and the early part of my marriage.

Shortly after marrying, I began to buy lingerie items in quantity. Also, when my wife wasn't around, I liked to dress in her clothes. Fortunately she was about the same size. Periodically I would feel guilty about this, believing I was some kind of weirdo, and dispose of my purchases. The desire always came back within a month, however, and I would find myself again in a lingerie department. I must have bought and later discarded well over 500 pairs of panties, dozens of slips, nighties, bras, girdles, etc., over the past 20 years. My wife never discovered this, although there were numerous close calls.

A little over a year ago, she bought me The Joy of Sex. She figured it was time to jazz up our sex life a little. There is a very brief mention in this book on how some women and men like to dress the man in feminine clothes for lovemaking. When we both finished the book, she asked me what "new thing" I wanted to try out. There were many times during our marriage that I wanted to tell her of my desires but never had the courage. Now, however, I was determined to put an end to my secrecy, and the book gave me an opening. I told her that the only item in the book that appealed to me would be to make love to her while dressed in her clothes.

Her reaction was completely unexpected, because she said she also read this and thought that it might be exciting! (Sometime later I began thinking about her reaction and wondered whether she knew of my habit but never let on.)

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