RANSVESTIA

"sweet innocence." Take another look at the picture of the front cover of Femme Mirror for last May: could anything be more wholesome than this gathering of the girls of Sigma chapter in Denver, Colorado? Why, that photograph positively reeks of cleanliness; and you, Virginia, are the well-spring of it all!

Those girls are happy, and to count myself as a member of the same Society gives me everything, including pleasure.

Yours, with esteem and regard,

Erika FCO-3-L

Dear Virginia:

I have to start by saying thank you for saying all of the things that I have been thinking and feeling for over 20 years, for freeing me of the guilt and fear, and for putting my transvestism (FP from now on) into perfect perspective. As you can tell I just finished reading Understanding Cross Dressing.

I can't add much to what you have said. I understand so much more now. Although I wish I had discovered the book before, I am just so relieved that I found it now. I am 33 years old and first remember cross dressing at ten or eleven, although I remember being dressed by my sister a couple of times at a very early age. I have no regrets there either. I am married with two wonderful dughters (four years old and four months old). My wife is so wonderful and I am so in love with her. We have a lot going for us.

My wife knows that I am an FP but I kept in on a very limited scale and related it to her strictly on a sex level. We would work it in occasionally when we were having sex because I thought she could accept that (guilt and fear). Then I would save more complete dressing for the three or four times a year that I could be alone for five or six hours. We are very close and opportunity was difficult to achieve.

We have talked about it recently in a much more open way. I leveled with her about what I had been doing and I told her that I had to find out more and had to communicate with her more about

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