blackmail being used in our national security program. Let it also be noted that nowhere is the victim given a trial of any kind whatever in TV or government. This issue ends with a rehash of Bill Tilden's private life.

SIR!

A MAGAZINE

FOR MALES

SIR! in its May issue takes the traditional whack at the Jorgensen case with a jolly mass of misinformation and misplaced sympathy. It is another staggering situation in which one's allies do more harm than good. But this issue is most notable for "The Effeminate Killers" or "Are Bullfighters Homosexuals? The Truth Will Shock You!" Again we see facts treated in such a way as to make the ordinary into something incredible. The writer can't get over the fact that a man can be strong, courageous and talented as well as homosexual. He repeatedly implies that cowardice is feminine as he gulps hard trying to swallow the "contradiction" in homosexual bravery. He ends up sounding, as most of these writers do, smutty and naive. The same issue reprints pages from the encyclopedia on eunuchism and heads the article with "The world's most hideous crime is still being perpetrated in parts of the world today" having apparently forgotten its highly favorable treatment of the Danish surgery a few pages before. The article, though filled with horror similar to that quoted above, states than many famous warriors, statesmen and scholars were eunuchs. It fails to point out that all male characteristics do not derive of the testes nor does it remind its readers that the actual amount of castrates in society is unknown and possibly much higher than we guess.

Bare

BARE, a monthly which offers its readers "The Naked Truth," should be required by law to admit that its contents are of, by and for subnormals. The May issue brimmed with exciting articles: Quickie Motels (Some Tourist Cabins Are Nothing Better Than Dens of Iniquity), Lowdown on Hollywood Sin, Reports of Sex Crimes, Pitfalls of a Model, Christine Mr. and Miss? and

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