have enjoyed or have been tormented by desires for their own sex. To set them aside in ever-changing categories of frequency (those who once did, now don't; those who didn't, now do), would require a nonsensically gigantic research which would never end. The actual problem is to eradicate the view that those of such impulses and experience are actually different, are few and to be segregated in any way.

Homosexuals are not merely certain people. Homosexuality, in one degree or another, is common to all. It calls for neither fear nor pride, and will require attention only so long as there is legal and religious prejudice against it. Homosexuality is today's great irrelevancy.

Tentatively agreeing that those of homosexual experience do not comprise a minority, this search-for-an-ethic takes on a different light. We ask: Who is doing the searching? Surely not the big quarterback who has a young wife and child. His homosexual experience is not a harrowing vocation. To him it is more of an unimportant, accidental pleasure which happens now and then-like a bender-and is sort of remembered and sort of forgotten. He feels absolutely nothing in common with "fairies", does not consider himself one and physically resents those who do. Nor is the search conducted by the bisexual who urgently wants things to remain just as they are, prejudices and all, that he may separate his two sex lives as clearly as possible. Our society's contradictions are his shield and refuge, his greatest ally. And naturally it is not the exclusively heterosexual; he is often convinced that liquidation not ethic is the solution to "perversion". This leaves the exclusively homosexual who is not only abnormal but in a distinctly small minority. Were such a publication as this for him alone, its circulation would be small indeed and its life short. But he wants an ethic, is being heard and must be considered, for in our treatment of him lies one of society's greatest flaws.

An ethic is the folkway of a people, its particular rules for dealing with their particular problems. Ethics vary in time and space, change constantly: An ethic is not manufactured, not imposed, not does it imply social good and bad except to those who practice it. Such mores are the over-all behavior of a particular group regardless of what an observer might criticize or applaud. Seeking to form an ethic is to say, "Let's think up a custom." For a minority to formulate one is to dream of changing the many to suit the few or, worse, to demand a cultural isolation. And right at the start the exclusively homosexual can lay claim to no particular cultural heritage or trait. How many vocations, arts or professions are exclusively homosexual other than one form of male prostitution and female impersonation? A book or painting cannot purport to spring from homosexuality merely because it deals with the subject. Can you tell the sexual inclinations of

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