Subject: Re: Cross-dressers
From: burhans@mizar.usc.edu (Mustang Sally)
Date: 1991-02-01, 11:12
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Feb1.160659.7541@watserv1.waterloo.edu> alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins) writes:
> >Thanks for the following: 
> >...
>> >>If Denise is like my friend, then "relaxed" just means that the tension
>> >>between feeling feminine and having to act masculine (including attire)
>> >>is releaved when he can put on the dress and release those feelings.  He
>> >>may very well "put his panties on one leg at a time" and remain
>> >>heterosexually oriented.  Most cross-dressers are.
>> >>

For the edification of Denise (and James) fans from DR. JOYCE BROTHERS 2/1
Column in the LATimes:

Dear Dr. Brothers: When my next door neighbor and I were doing laundry
recently, she confessed to me that her husband (who's the most macho guy
one could imagine) likes to wear women's nighties and under things. My mouth
fell to the floor and I couldn't disguise my shock. They seem to be a nice,
normal, happy couple, but what does this mean? D.W.

Dear D.W.: This kind of cross dressing or clothes fetish usually originates
early in a child's life when he has some erotic unconscious experience
with silky lingerie. According to Dr. Eugene E. Levitt of the Indiana
University School of Medicine, clinical investigations have revealed that 
parents of many heterosexual transvestites had deliberately prolonged
the babyhood period in which males and femmales are dressed much the same, or
they've actually dressed a boy in feminine fashions up to the age of 4, 5,
or even older. Cross dressers are overwhelmingly heterosexual and most are
happily married men with families and children. These men, who usually
appear very macho, have no desire for  divorce or sexual change. They tend
to be conventional and conservative in most other ways.
Washington D.D., therapist Karen Shanor conducted a study of a number of
relatively successful, middle class males and when they were asked if they'd
ever wanted to wear women's clothing, 40% answered in the affirmative.


-- Jackie Burhans (burhans@usc.edu) Data Stylist, USC Student Affairs