TRANSVESTIA

If males and females both wore no clothing but a loin cloth but the females used a pink body paint and the males a blue one, you can be sure that there would be some males who wanted to paint themselves pink. That's what I meant by saying "it isn't the clothing itself, it's what it represents," i.e. femininity.

WARNING—

With considerable regularity I have asked in previous issues for more material to be submitted for this magazine. Particularly I need non-fictional items like articles, histories and personal experiences.

I need fiction, too, of course, but you may have noticed that one of our girls is a prolific writer and has provided a lot of the material. Her pen name is Dee Raymond and two of her stories finish in this issue. But neither she nor I want her to be the sole source of fiction pieces so send some of those in, too.

I thought I would have to omit four pages from this issue but I managed to piece it out. Think about this for a minute! Transvestia is not only the oldest and largest magazine in the TV world but the best and cleanest. You wouldn't have to be ashamed of it if someone found it on your coffee table. I know that most of my readers are my readers for precisely that reason. If they want pornography, fetishism, bondage, S & M, homosexuality, etc., it is easily available in stores and by mail. So if you are buying TVia it must be because you like what it provides. If that is so then you are presumably interested in its continuing to do so. And in turn, if you are, you must help make it possible.

I have neither the time nor the desire to "write" the magazine myself. It is your magazine, reflecting your interests and desires. I merely assemble it and make it a total attractive package, but to do so I must have material. So don't pass the buck by saying "my story is like many others." True, there are a lot of points in common to all of us, but each one is different. You have some ideas for an article, some poetry or some personal experience that would interest others. So please, sit down and write them up and send them in. If you don't, TVia will slowly shrivel up from old age and dehydration.

Hopefully,

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Virginia