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INITIATION FANTASIES, APTLY NAMED BY DR. JUCOVY, are not only of central significance in the fantasy life of this one transvestitic patient, but permeate the collective fantasy life of transvestites. In order to verify the widespread existence of such fantasies among transvestites, one need only glance through the personal columns of any sex newspaper or magazine; many letters from transvestites invite the acquaintance of a woman (or another transvestite) for purposes of instruction in the art of dress: "… novice TV wishes to meet T.V.s, Ts, interested females to dress me, make me up, sincere, go out together," "… wish help of someone to turn me into complete woman…" This theme of initiation may also be masochistically elaborated; for example, "Servant in silks: Teach me, dress me, make me up, scold me, but don't hurt me … my wife has tried but no person could satisfy this need to be totally female. Liberate me…"
The initiation fantasies as they appear in the pornographic literature are not entirely congruent with those of Dr. Jucovy's patient, but they do share one central theme, namely, the induction into the art of cross-dressing by a woman. The following comments on transvestitic pornography are based on two sources: an article by Beigel and Feldman (1963), which analyzes 93 works of transvestite fiction, and an unpublished study by Ovesey and myself, which examines a