exclusion of sheer lust which is itself more often an excuse than a cause. The prevalence of bisexuality points to the possibility that it is the norm with exclusive heterosexuality and exclusive homosexuality the abnormal extremes. Considering the infinite variation and subtlety of homosexual impulses and experience, those who deny the omnipresence of bisexuality are victims of either despotic shame or poor memories.

It must be noted that the actual mechanics of the sex act in all it myriad forms defy categorization. Were our culture mature enough to discuss them openly without revulsion or ribaldry, we would see that most "normal" couples perform acts as a matter of course which are supposed to be exclusively homosexual. This general need for variation effectively challenges the popular idea that deviates must settle for a pathetic substitute and cannot enjoy the "real thing". It can be safely stated that here is no typically homosexual form of intercourse. The sexual act and all its variations belongs to everyone.

As to the extremes on either side of bisexuality, we should consider the suggestion that any exclusiveness implies fixity. This itself indicates an end of the natural state of flux that is growth and the characteristic of growth behavior which is experimentation. Any extreme in selection is abnormal. This is not to say that those exclusively homoor heterosexual belong in straitjackets, but that neither category is fulfilling a perhaps rewarding natural capacity. When the former claim that everyone is potentially homosexual, they forget that the reverse is also true: everyone is certainly potentially heterosexual, too. Of course, the limitation of one's own experience must be left to the individual's own conditioned choice but only until it impinges upon living efficiency with emotional disturbance and upon the comfort of those about us. To threaten both of these extreme types with the horrors of repression is foolishness. However the fact remains that much imbalance develops in those of narrowly limited outlet, and, in the heterosexual especially, expresses itself finally in crimes of violence when the contradiction of two "opposed" desires becomes too great. It should be noted that such crimes seldom occur in those exclusively homosexual; their ultimate despair more often turns in upon themselves to result in self-destruction.

The hypothesis that bisexuality is the norm might indicate that we are wrestling mightily with a problem that doesn't exist while a far greater one, cultural hypocricy, stands by unseen, smirking at our mutual destruction. For if more people have some homosexual experience than there are those who have exclusively homosexual experience, where is the minority? Are those who drink coffee a minority? If we do not ask how much coffee, once a day or once a life, we are forced to admit that the coffee-drinkers are a majority of the population and as such cannot constitute a "problem". We cannot seek to ferret out all who

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