ANS. THIS IS AN UNFORTUNATE CONDITION AS HOMOSEXUALISM IS AN INBORN TRAIT BROUGHT ABOUT BY MALADJUSTMENT OF GLANDS. SOMETIMES AN ADJUSTMENT COMES ABOUT NATURALLY AND SOMETIMES AN OPERATION IS SUCCESSFULLY RESORTED TO HOWEVER, WE HAVE ON HAND REPORTS OF HEAVY PHYSICAL EXERCISE GIVING THE SUBJECT MORE MASCULINE TENDENCIES. IT WOULD BE WORTH YOUR WHILE TO EARNESTLY APPLY YOURSELF TO HEAVYWEIGHT TRAINING.

Considering the circulation of these muscle magazines and their evident influence on the youngsters (?) who avidly follow them, they cannot be casually dismissed. For instance, in the same issue, an inquiry deals with the use of potassium nitrate (saltpeter) to attain "temporary sexual impotence." The "Doctor" in his answer remarks that it is "often used to repress sexual excesses" but should be used in small quantities "in coffee or tea" (those two evil stimulants advocated in a health magazine?) or can be used on foods "just like ordinary table salt." There are three idiocies contained in the "Doctor's" answer: (1) the actual diagnosis of potassium nitrate which has highly controversial effects on the human metabolism, (2) the use of the terms "repress sexual excesses" in view of the extreme variation of frequency among individuals, is to promulgate a dangerous ignorance; the "Doctor" seems to leave it up to the confused and unhappy reader to determine whether his needs are in excess of an average "proper" sexual frequency. The acutely strange reasoning here seems to be that the proper young man prior to marriage has only a moderate nocturnal emission rate if at all and certainly does not practice "selfabuse," but AFTER marriage he is expected to suddenly undergo a tremendous glandular and ethical change in which the highest frequency of intercourse is most laudable because now he's got procreation firmly in mind when he retires each night. This sudden change and the strict social requirements for it present a dilemma to the individual which may very well have an intimate connection with homosexuality; and (3) the most telling facet of the "Doctor's" answer is his agreement that only marital and heterosexual intercourse are proper and anything before, after or different from should be tended to by means of a drug inducing "temporary sexual impotence." His belief that all males worthy of Heaven should be sterile and impotent prior to marriage is explicit in every word and an assumption on which he writes his brief, frightening reply: "yes, illegal erections are bad use potassium nitrate like table salt." The advice is as brutally stupid as the answer to the boy who is homosexual: "Earnestly apply yourself to heavyweight training." Incredible! Is this the answer to give to thousands of young men and boys who ask help in a social situation perhaps as painful as any that the individual can experience!? Is this Science showing the way to strength and health? And what is the reaction of the tormented writer?

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