a photographer, a bank clerk or a lumberjack unless they intrude the information into their work? They merely take pictures, cash some checks and fell trees; it's a job and that's that. Craftsmanship may be influenced by sexual predilection but it doesn't necessarily reveal it. If it did there would not be the futile, agelong debates on whether many historical figures were or weren't. There is no evidence of a homosexual culture.

If we consider the term "ethic" to mean "ethical" we have something entirely different. Here such a search is a worthy project that demands acclaim and active aid. In spite of the fact that the exclusively homosexual has every reason to be anti-social, wholly irresponsible and lyrically dishonest, the indication that he is dissatisfied with not only his persecution but himself claims the alertest of

attention.

We may smile at his insistence upon some sort of marriage pattern as inept and incongruous. But in doing so, we find ourselves obliged to laugh at the heterosexual marriage pattern as callow coercion. It may well be that ideas of Romance and Living-Happily-Ever-After are only social insurance for maintaining the family unit. As such, any similar pattern would not be consistent with the exclusively homosexual: there is no family unit, as we know it, to maintain. If children from birth had real social security, marriage and divorce laws as well as ideas of promiscuity would relax noticibly. Nor would this necessarily mean degeneration. There would come into being a concept of love and affection as an art. The desire for affection with love, for respect with passion, is common to all except the bitterly conditioned. Only the frustrated do not know that promiscuity is the very essence of futility. The exclusively homosexual, often with promiscuity of the basest kind forced upon him, knows its despair and now vigorously protests against it.

And why does he want to ape the often inadequate convention of marriage when it basically does not apply to him? Because he wants to belong. His earnest, almost frantic attempts to belong may make him do pathetic things but the wish is there. In our often inconsistent society, the principle way of belonging is to have a family or a person in a lasting relationship. Having no substitute nor alternative for these ideas, the exclusively homosexual are forced to aspire to. these same domestic situations. Such an aspiration is analagous to an urban dweller passionately wanting a horse. Bisexuals look for nothing binding or poetically romantic in their homosexual contacts. They want enjoyment only and perhaps they are wise in this particular society. But when they smile at the sentimental homosexual, they forget that he has no outlet for affection which is the daily pleasure of every "normal" person with a wife, husband or child. Mere sex does not provide this; in fact, sex and affection are often antipodal emotions

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