slacks almost always on our off-work hours.

We are comfortable in them and we have no problem adjusting to the stares of the passersby. We consider dresses, high heels and stocking holders the most uncomfortable contraptions men have invented to restrict the movements of women so they cannot walk very far, lift many things, or sit with their legs apart in warm weather."

A.C., New York, N. Y.

Regarding the homosexual-hcmcphile word usage, there is more to it than preference of word there is the matter of repetition and the need for synonyms! Also, new readers may be interested to know that the book referred to above is SEX VARIANT WOMEN IN LITERATURE by Jeannette H. Foster, Vantage Press, New York. ED.

"I was taken up by the intriguing subject as to the natural 'rights' for a person to dress and act in a masculine manner. Now withall, I agree as to the practical reasons why one must not overtly show one's masculine tendencies in public. Avoidance of persecution and ridicule, and holding down a job are not the least of the se reasons. Yet, the argument does hold some loopholes, theoretically interesting if not practiceable in our still prime aval times.

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What scientific basis is there for a society to uphold certain idiosyncrasies of dress and manner and to condemn others? Of all the intellectual rubbish in the history of mankind, none has been more voluminous than the conventions and taboos of dress. And for the awe and superstition and emotionalism attached to such breaches in convention, we're not too far from the age of the nose-ring and filed teeth.

Transvestism is not necessarily coincident with homosexuality. liany transvestites are not homosexuals, and many homosexuals are not transvestites. Moreover, the origins of this complex are as often nonSexual as sexual, coming as they do from security and power motivations, or from faulty education. Crossdressing may be a neurosis, or might be a natural