The Answer to Homosexuality

(The following is a resume of research done by the author while a student at a Southland college. The careful footnotes and bibliography in the original have been deleted because of space requirements. All references available upon request from the editors who realize how singular this arrangement is.)

It would be a difficult, even unwise, procedure to separate homosexuality from the other areas of life and consider it wholly in the realm of abnormal psychology. Because of the interplay and influence of religion, law, the social sciences, etc., no activity so integral a part of life can be considered (as too often it is) in a vacuum.

Society itself, and the general tenor of the world today should be understood as a background, and as an active force in perpetuating the problem of homosexuality. No one escapes today's strong religious and social influences. The most open-minded "agnostic free thinker" could not approach such a subject without some preconceived ideas and attitudes. Even the objective scientist has prejudices and preferences-decided in the main for him by his environment.

With the past and present so filled with subjectivity and biased thinking, it is not difficult to understand why the subject is generally avoided. And when it is under scrutiny, it is with a furrowed brow and coupled with inevitable negative moral judgment.

An article appearing in Coronet magazine in September, 1950, will

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serve as an example of the typical approach. It is titled, "New Moral Menace to Our Youth." The article equates homosexuality with robbery and criminal behavior, loss of decency, inevitable mental deterioration, etc.

This not infrequent distortion of the truth and purely emotional approach has done much to perpetuate ignorance, mistrust, and hatred of sex deviation in any form. Because of blind allegiance to an unquestioned but inadequate moral code, and because of the common hysterical frame of mind, the deviant or society seldom questions even blatant lies published about sex deviation.

According to one theory, suggested by Freud, Stekel and others, all persons are bisexual; that is, the norm is a sexual constitution in which the heterosexual and homosexual components are approximately balanced. Accepting this theory, much of the social ostracism of the homosexual could be explained as the result of suppression of "normal" (or "abnormal") desires:

Many men have had homosexual experiences of various kinds before or during adolescence. Many others have

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