Those Mad Magazines

jurors who were impressed with Lawton's degree. Maybe they'll remember this the next time they sit in judgment on one of these here abnormals: "No. Dr. Kinsey has shown that some one third of all men have had homosexual experiences at some time, and most medical authorities indicate that the percentage among women is even higher." Of course, Kinsey didn't indicate anything of the sort about women; it is unfortunate that the former data might be invalidated to the average reader by the inaccuracy of the latter. The doctor goes on to say that "pansies" can't always be spotted: "May are rugged he-man types and others are normal looking, average men with nothing in their conduct or appearance to suggest homosexuality." This is all to the goodalthough pulp "authorities" often seem to have gotten their degrees from alphabet soup.

One of the things that the prosecutor hits edly read by many jurors and prospective hardest in a vag lewd trial is the asserted fact that the defendant “made a gesture that no normal person would make even once." The reasoning seems to imply that a gay person need only sleep once with the opposite sex to become heterosexual. This view wouldn't last long before a jury but the gesture-that-no-normal-person would -makeeven-once seems to impress them, and the prosecutor pounds away at it as if he were teaching school. He usually gets his way. But it is encouraging to note that here and there popular magazines are questioning this even once idea. They do not always seem conscious that they are challenging a law and whole mode of social thinking, but they do it nevertheless. In MEN, May 1953, a Dr. Shailer Upton Lawton answers fifty sex questions and among them is: "Does one homosexual experience for a man, or one Lesbian experience for a woman, indicate homosexuality?" The answer was undoubt-

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