RANSVESTIA

Now let's back up a bit to where the individual is in the early stages of dressing. We have already noted that most boys masturbate anyway but those who do it while dressed have simply found that there are a lot of ways of increasing sexual excitement. One can flip the pages of Playboy, go to a so-called "dirty" movie (or watch a reel of sexy movies at home), or peek into a girl's bedroom watching her dress or undress or finally to handle and wear those items of attire which are, so to speak, saturated with femininity. The most common items as mentioned above are those items of clothing that are MOST unlike anything a boy or man would wear. High heels, panties, bras, girdles or even lipstick are very unmasculine and therefore carry a high feminine "charge" and add markedly to the level or erotic excitement. Dresses on the other hand, being circular garments are not too different from an overcoat or bathrobe worn by men; a skirt is pretty much the same thing as a bathtowel worn around the waist at the beach or swimming pool; a blouse is just a pretty shirt with the buttons on the other side, etc. So it shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone, the TV, his wife or his favorite shrink that these highly erotically charged items add to the males' sexual excitement. So, since we have seen that masturbation is well nigh universal among young males anyway, TVs or FPs whould have no reason to feel unusual, bad, sinful, guilty or whatever, that they are sexually aroused by feminine apparel. There are very few who have not been.

Finally comes the relationship between sex, cross dressing and a female partner. There is a big conflict here usually and largely due to misunderstanding and insecurity on the wife's part (or girl friend's). She tends to think of the femininely dressed (wholly or partly) male as being homosexual or mentally ill and thus rejecting his desires. Or conversely, they may feel that he is competing with them and stealing their thunder; or that they are not enough of a stimulus them- elves and he is having to supplement it with the clothing, or finally that is makes them "feel like a lesbian." All such attitudes on the females' part are based (a) on ignorance or misinformation and (b) on a lack of concern for the husband's pleasure.

The inconsistency of calling a man a homosexual because he wants to have penile-vaginal intercourse with a female while he is wearing a nightgown and a bra for example is lost on them entirely. Fears of competition or of being inadequate themselves are wrong because they just don't see what the male is actually trying to do, namely

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