RANSVESTIA

by anything having to do with the female from erotic thoughts to a pair of pink, lacy feminine panties is neither abnormal nor surprising. He has merely learned to extract stimuli from his environment and use them for erotic purposes. That this is so becomes immediately apparent if you can see the absurdity of handing a pair of such panties to an Eskimo or an African bushman who has never seen such an item and doesn't know what it is for and expecting him to become aroused. In sort, the arousal is not inherent in that garment or material nor in any other. It resides solely in the head of the male and is there only because the item is intimately associated with females in our culture.

TVs who are aroused by feminine garments (and very few are not at one time or another) need not berate themselves nor think that there is something wrong or abnormal about themselves. They are behaving in predictable ways and have LOTS of company. Those who carry the early experience over into marriage are not very unusual either. Practically no married male much as he may love his wife, fails to utilize masturbation as a means of sexual release when deprived of the company of his wife (or other females) for a couple of weeks or more. That is the earlier pattern remains available and usable all the time, it is merely superceded by the greater pleasures of a sexual experience with another person. Since females from animals through humans are basically in the receptive role, that is they don't have to do anything but be available and permit pene- tration, they are not as easily aroused by external sfimuli. Only in the last few years have we discovered that females can learn to be aroused by pictures, scenes and fantasies. But because of their long history of passive receptivity they don't understand the arousal phenomenon and because of their social conditioning regard the world as sexually black and white with no overlap. Everyone is either a male or female and thus masculine or feminine, and behavior-wise, is either hetero or homo sexual.

Then, when hubby wants to come to bed in a feminine nightgown he trips over both of these misconceptions. (1) he, as a man, is doing a feminine thing and (2) if he appears as a woman to any degree that makes him a female (since woman and female are considered synonymous) and that in turn makes the relationship one of female homosexuality, i.e. lesbian, and that upsets the wife. This is a very primitive and erroneous way of looking at the whole matter of sex, gender and sexual interaction, but it is what the culture teaches and

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