YOUR

LETTERS

The following letters are just a few of the many letters that your busy Editor receives in her office each week.

Dear Carol: Transvestia No. 105 was the first issue of TVIA that I had seen for awhile and it is obvious why you are getting so many compliments on the ap- pearance and content.

The article by Paula Ho- ward shows a pretty keen insight about crossdressing and I was amused by her remark that if women stood in corners like umbrellas, that crossdressers would do the same. One excep- tion, however, and that is if they ever start wearing those ugly, low-heeled shoes again, this girl just isn't going alone. Janice (TX-10-M)

Dear Carol: Have just read the latest issue of Transvestia and, as usual, enjoyed it thoroughly. I've found that it makes good reading while eating breakfast at 5:30 A.M.. Toast, coffee and Transvestia make a good com- bination to start the day.

I was particularly impressed with the recent cover issue on Paula Howard. She not only presents a very graceful, feminine image, but she also wrote a very cheerful, witty story. Linda (VA-12-C)

Dear Carol:I understand that you are part of an organization that delas with men who wear girl's

clothing it being as a natural "twist" of women in pants. Having been treated as every- thing from a homosexual to a "pansy," I was extremely glad to hear about you.

I was punished as a boy and forced to wear dresses and pinafores and crinolines to my school for infractions at home. But the punishment back-fired and now I can't get enough of skirts and dresses. Like other men I stare at girls as they walk by, but unlike most men, I'm admiring their pretty clothes, their shoes and hairdos, and not drooling over their sexy bodies. Dianne, Findlay, Ohio.

Dear Carol: Recently my lover confessed to me that he enjoys dressing in women's clothes. We had just read an article in Forum on crossdressing and Tony asked how I felt about it. Since I wasn't negative about crossdressing he told me about his unusual behavior. I was quite surprised although not re- pelled or shocked. Since that time we have read quite a bit about crossdressing. I work in a medical school and have read medical texts dealing with the subject, but there really isn't much there na dmost of it is too clincal. We have exhausted

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the public library of its few books.

I've been helping Tony dress up and we have incor- porated this in our love-making. It has helped both of us work out some problems in that area, as occasionally we switch roles,

too.

We're lucky in that Tony can wear most of my clothes and makeup is no big deal with us. We are both in the theater and know how to apply it. But he tends to look too matronly when he is dressed. Can you help us make him look younger? I can't blame him for wanting to look exciting and sexy as a woman. We live with another couple and between us we have six children so we have confined our "games" to bedroom after hours. Tony is getting anxious to get out, even just to drive around the block while dressed. Charlene, Pasa- dena, Tx