(B) The efficacy

of

practicing the prophetic

exhortation

"The man who would become a miss,

His elbows he must learn to kiss."

is still moot. However, ridiculous as it seems, it appears that there is truth in the superstition. It may be even more potent, as it appears from this study that even the attempt to kiss the elbow works a subtle gender change. Seemingly the harder one tries and the longer one tries to achieve this objective, the more change becomes evident. It is unknown if a complete gender change, as per subject, would occur through unremitting attempts to kiss the elbow. It has not been determined if these changes are irre- versible; however, the change in subject has been so complete as to be considered irrevocable.

(C) The physical act of kissing does not cause a sex change, nor does the act necessarily cause a gender change. The idea and desire for realization of the prophecy probably con- tributes to, and may even cause some or all of the feminization which occurs. The relationship between sex and gender still re- mains inconclusive. Additional studies are needed to resolve this relationship or lack thereof.

I returned this interesting article with thanks to the gentle- man who had loaned it to me, and while we were discussing sev- eral of the points covered he mentioned to me that in conversation with some of his colleagues, he had learned of the existence of another such study which had been prepared and published under the aegis of the 'Cite University,' Paris, some years ago. He sug- gested that I check this source; an idea with which I acquiesced thoroughly.

A few days after my arrival in Paris, I telephoned the Cite University and made my request to the Assistant Director of Archives. He promptly asked asked if my interest was profes- sional or personal; I unblushingly replied that it was professional and gave other untrue credentials. He agreed to attempt to search out the article, although he stated that he could hold out little hope for its discovery as the University's archives had been badly

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