The average person is absolutely convinced that homosexuality is contagious. They superstitiously fear some of it rubbing off on their children and their weak-minded mates. What the actual mechanics of homosexual intercourse are, comprises a terrible mystery to them. If they knew, they'd be upset at how quickly the shock wore off and they'd adjust to it with little effort generally. A helping factor would be the discomforting realization that much of what these perverts do is identical to what many, many heteros enjoy habitually, and that many of the other variations are pathetic substitutions. Were they to study a few clear diagrams, those unknown horrors that go on next door would become pretty dull stuff.

This would leave the die-hards with their bitter-endish last stand which runs something like: "But sex without either pregnancy or the danger of pregnancy in the offing isn't natural!" Some of them could be answered with statistics on the sale of contraceptives (a gigantic business) and a brief description of what the world would be like if nature changed and there was offspring with each of these normal intercourses. Also, if procreation sanctifies sex then there are more abnormal and unnatural heteros than homos because they can conceive and don't more often than not! This is real sinning.

Naturally this idea of perversion is a religious one and will not be whisked away this week or next no matter how deft our reasoning. What can be done about our cultural fixation that sex shouldn't be fun, is a large question. The fact that this conviction has made us childishly dirty-minded as a nation and perhaps more neurotic than any other country in the world, apparently carries no weight with our majority. It seems that we different ones can only educate and wait, protest and behave as best we can. And perhaps one day the homo sons of our hetero friends will enjoy an unlabeled life devoted to productive work rather than furtive sex.

Dorothy Walker

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