deeply buried unconscious inclinations toward members of the same sex as a result of the bisexual structure of their personalities. The sight of someone who openly expresses these inclinations arouses a secret anxiety lest what the individual restrains might escape his control. The hatred and anger arise out of hostility toward that which makes us uncomfortable and also serve as a strong open objection to the attraction which we dare not admit to ourselves.

The validity of the bisexual hypothesis is tacitly accepted by many experts in the field. The mere fact that an individual can be made a homosexual or a heterosexual by his environment is proof that every person is potentially either or both.

Thus it is obvious that "homosexuality (existing in all men and women) varies in degree," says A. J. Rosanoff.

There are two major theories concerning the origin of homosexuality. In simple terms, the theories may be called "hereditary" and "environmental." The latter is held to be more sound, however a combination of both would seem more valid in many cases.

One author believes that "the preference for objects of the same sex is really based on a distaste for objects of the opposite sex. Some emotional obstacle prevents the person from feeling a sexual interest in members of the opposite sex." This explanation is considerably inadequate and misleading. It could be an easy explanation for neurotic and psychotic forms of homo-

sexuality. It does not explain the healthy well-adjusted homosexual or bisexual individual, and it completely ignores the counterpart abnormality of compulsive heterosexual behavior.

Freud's more realistic and unbiased approach comes nearer to a comprehensive theory of origin: He says that a certain amount of homosexuality is active but more or less concealed in the soul of almost every person, and that as soon as the appropriate conditions are given it may accede to manifest activity.

To understand that potential homosexual tendencies are inherent is to realize that adult homosexual behavior is-like other behavior-learned. It is therefore false to assume that homosexuality is automatically wrong or "contrary to nature" because it does not result in procreation. This is completely a cultural judgment of what should constitute "normality.'

It is only with a liberal attitude of "sexual freedom" that one can bring any order from the chaos of varying patterns of sexual behavior. Social ostracism and prudish denial of the problem have not solved it. The only intelligent course of action left seems to be acceptance of deviation.

A recent magazine article was singularly progressive in its approach to what should be the "cure" of homosexuality. The writer quotes from Dr. Eric Berne's The Mind in Action. Of homosexuals he says in his book,

Their lives are difficult enough as it is, and punishment is not indicated.

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