Now when you get right down to it, this is a very smutty state of affairs. To repeat an old chestnut, only a sex-starved nation would be so occupied with the function. Naked girls on billboards do not stimulate a "healthy, normal, natural" reaction. A man who whistles at every woman he sees on a calendar, should either see a doctor or find out if there isn't a rabbit somewhere on his family tree. It is also outrageously trite to point out that there are literally hundreds of thousands of lasting, firm and productive relationships in which neither party has ever thought of having sex or tortured nightmares with naughty symbols rampant.

Yet in spite of being aware of such a bearded truism, the average neighbor looks on two women or two men living together, and spontaneously combusts into lewd guesses. They behold two men in an orgy of housecleaning or laundry and leap to lurid conclusions of their own invention. This is the whole point: homosexuals are not condemned for what they are seen doing but what their audiences imagine them doing. Homosexuals generally behave much better than heterosexuals. They do not publicly make physical love such as you can see by heteros any hour of day or night in the most incongruous places. The homo conducts himself with weary care especially if he wants to go on living in that neighborhood and who wants to move all the time? The average homo has many mental samplers on the wall that read, "Are The Shades Down, Stupid?" and "Did You HAVE To Say That So Loudly?” and “Never, Never, Never Have An Affectionate Impulse!" There are dozens more because he has to behave himself like a puritan eunuch to survive.

So it's not what the neighbors see. It's what they imagine and they have violently active imaginations. Having been taught from earliest childhood that all who live together love together, they're outraged at what simply must go on behind those closed doors, drawn shades and in the pitch dark of that unnatural house! They see little or no sexual intercourse between homosexuals during their lives (unless keyholing or participating "just this once") yet they know those two school teachers are Lesbians and no one's going to tell them different! Ask them how the tailored suit of one hurts the neighborhood or how a boyish haircut affects the gardens of the community and you'll get squinted at. Maybe you'll get shouted at: "Do you mean to stand there and say it doesn't matter if those two unnatural women have sex together?" If you're foolish, you'll shout back, "But how do you know! Have you seen them?" The answering scream will end the whole scientific discussion: "Naturally not! I'm not a Peeping Tom but I KNOW because one wears a tailored suit and just look at the other one's haircut!" At this point you know you were licked before you started. A fool with no evidence whatsoever has come to the correct conclusion and you can only stand there looking dyspeptic.

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