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Homosexuality & the sex variant: what anthropology, economics, medicine, psychology, sociology and other sciences say. Original articles and reprints or abstracts from material published elsewhere. ONE regards this department as a continuing seminar in the field of socio-sexual research and holds no brief for or against the views expressed by various scientific workers. Readers, as "students", are urged to pursue their own further study.

LIITIK

SEX

IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW

by george weaver

This article originally appeared in Progressive World magazine, and reprints of the article can be obtained for ten cents from Progressive World, Box 27, Clifton, New Jersey. George Weaver has edited two forthcoming books, The Sexual Problem and The Courtesan in Modern Life, which contains selections from the untranslated volumes of Guyon's Studies in Sexual Ethics.

It is an amazing story that I have to tell. A story that will remind you of the curious case of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace, who quite independently formulated the theory of evolution by natural selection, in almost identical terms, Darwin in England and Wallace in a tropical outpost on the other side of the world. It is a story that will remind you, from another viewpoint, of the case of Gregor Mendel, whose researches in heredity, destined to be the very foundation of the future science of Genetics, remained unknown to the leading biologists for many years after their publication.

For eight years, a biological expert named Alfred Charles Kinsey traveled through

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certain sections of the United States, interviewing thousands of Americans of various ages concerning the details of their actual sexual behavior. For thirty years, a legislative expert named René Charles Guyon, during travels throughout Europe and Asia and Oceania, observed and questioned people of all races and various ages concerning the details of their sexual behavior. In 1947, in an American college town, when he was 53 years of age, Dr. Kinsey completed the first volume of a projected ninevolume work on human sex relations. In 1928, in far-off Siam, when he was 52 years of age, Dr. Guyon completed the first volume of a nine-volume work on human sex relations.