The salutation is difficult so I'll skip it. Until I received my first copy of ONE, I thought I had problems. After reading it, I don't know how to describe myself because that slim line, the norm, has disappeared. I must add, however, that I am married and have 4 children. I have never had any conscious biological inclinations toward sex deviation, but I have always held strong sympathies toward those who do. In trying to learn the facts behind it, I have found that people look upon you with distaste and suspicion for asking such nasty questions. I would still like to know if this is a psychological or biological problem. And if not . . . what? I was pleased to learn that these people have united to do something about it, but highly disturbed to gather that they would change the entire code of mores. This, to me, is as dangerous and disturbing as the problem itself. At any rate, best of luck to ONE... believe me, you have my sympathy and complete understanding.

Unerotically, * Disturbed

*Erotically speaking, ONE does not recommend, advocate or champion any particular form of sexual behavior. Although the subject of sex immediately connotes the erotic, ONE's prime concern is with the civil rights, study and social conduct of this minority and has no interest in the intimate pursuits of any individual or group. Two among its reasons are the facts that it's no one's business what you do privately as long as no one else is injured and, secondly, all "unnatural" acts, as well as inciting them, are almost universally illegal. ONE is concerned with populations rather than pairs but appreciates sympathy and understanding however disturbed.

ONE is a non-profit California corporation formed, "to publish and disseminate a magazine dealing primarily with homosexuality from the scientific, historical and critical point of view, and to aid in the social integration and rehabilitation of the sexual variant." It is also "concerned wtih medical social, pathological, psychological and therapeutic research of every kind and description pertaining to socio-sexual behavior," and aims "to promote among the general public an interest, knowledge and understanding of the problems of such persons."

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