LAKE ERIE

10

252

SPRAGUE

WILDWOOD

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HOW TO GET THERE...

From The North:

LAKE

LORAIN ROAD

COLUMBIA ROAD

252

Cleveland-Wildwood Lake is just 22 miles soutwest from downtown. Take I-71 South to Rt 82 and go West to Rt 252 turn right to Wildwood.

From Toledo-Detroit-Chicago

Sandusky

Follow Ohio Turnpike to Exit 10. Go South on I-71 to Rt 82 and go West to Rt 252. Turn right to Wildwood.

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ROAD

CLEVELAND

BAGLEY ROAD

EXIT 10

OHIO TURNPIKE

ROYALTON

From The South-Columbus-

Cincinati-MansfieldDayton-Salem

Take I-71 North to Rt 82 and go West to Rt 252. Turn right to Wildwood Park. From Youngstown-PittsburgErie-Buffalo-Warren

Take Ohio Turnpike to I-71. Go South to Rt 82 then go West to Rt 252. Turn right to Wildwood.

Erie & Buffalo Residents should take I-90 West to I-71 South to Rt 82. Go West to Rt 252 then turn right to Wildwood.

Another of the best chapters is on veneral diseases, featuring the it "top 13" from crabs to warts. is not, however, without some inaccuracies, such as the unqualified statement, "Over 50% of male homosexuals seeking treatment for any variety of VD were found to have rectal VD." Another mistake is the statement that one must wait 30 minutes after probenamid tablets before the penicillin shot for gonorrhea. The wait is unneces-

sary.

"Male Genitalia" is quite long (the chapter, that is). It tells more about the privates than I thought was public. The reader is taken from the Cowper's gland through the epididymis and shot out through the meatus, then given a four-page description of the contents of semen.

The chapter on physical health is poorly organized, and it tells you little you don't already know. Covering the subject in 50 pages is an impossible task, anyhow. Too often, there are vacuous statements, such as, "Few men are delighted by the idea of wearing dentures," or, "Accidents are a major killer of all people."

Chapters on fathering and contraception will offer little to gay men, nor will the disturbing and sweeping digs the author gives health professionals. For example, in a discussion of Nonspecific Urethritis:

another way for

doctors to say 'I don't know' is to call a disorder 'nonspecific'." That sort of opinionated conclusion seems out of place in a liberated, laid-back volume like this. Keep

in mind that the author doesn't know everything, either.

I believe the author when he says he was energized by writing the book; that it has given him joy. But imagine it has also given him money. Save yours. If you're the kind of person who has read this far into a book review, chances are you know all the common-sense stuff about your body, anyhow. The folks who need to read Men's Bodies won't.

The Advocate Guide to Gay Health. David Goodstein, publisher, 1978. 240 pp., $3.95. This close-out price on a book originally offered at $10.95 may be your best bet. After all, it was written with a specifically gay reader in mind.

Several chapters get down to real nitty-gritty facts: "Hazards of Sex" and "Alcohol and Other Drugs" are right to the point on pertinent concerns and dangers.

"Perspectives on Aging" was a weak chapter on a topic that deserves mention, even if no one wants to talk about it.

The last chapter, "Holistic Health," is an exciting report on the increasingly recognized mind-body connection in good health. I was pleased that they agreed that most people don't need vitamin supplements, and that the potential

... that awaits us may never be ours if we choose to be alone." Earlier in the page, they had supported the old U. S. death-rate finding that single people have higher death rates than those who are married. But I doubt those rates ever separate out single people living together as opposed to those truly living alone. Another example of mixing fruits and vegetables.

There is an appendix of 40 pages of gay community services which may now be outdated. A better source for this information comes in the form of a booklet from The National Gay Health Coalition Educationa! Foundation, P. O. Box 677, Old Chelsea Station, New York, New York 10011. For $2.95, they offer

a 52-page booklet that lists gay health care sources in the United States and Canada.

If you have a question you'd like to ask Dr. Thompson, write to him in care of Stonewall Features Syndicate, P. O. Box 222976, Carmel, California 93922, and enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

Stonewall Features Syndicate, 1982

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