ple in the matter of the expression of their most personal instincts." By Maurice Parmelee (writing thirty years before Kinsey): "It is to be hoped that before long the criminal laws against fornication and adultery will be stricken forever from our statute books. These invasive laws constitute grave violations of the rights of the individual. While the normal heterosexual relation is doubtless the most desirable, it is wholly indefensible to penalize homosexuality, sexual fetishism, and other variations from the normal. In the future, bigamy, adultery, fornication, concubinage, and prostitution will, of course, disappear as criminal offenses. Indecency, immodesty, and obscenity will be wiped out of the penal code." By Robert Briffault: "Marriage being a private, not a public concern, the State has no right therein except as it may deem it desirable to register the conclusion or the dissolution of the association. Laws which, acting as the secular arm of the Church, enforce Christian tabus and impose Christian marriage coercively are a tyrannous anachronism to be opposed, not in the name of intelligence merely, but in the name of justice and morality. All censorship of so-called public morals, whether in literature, in the theatre, or elsewhere, is the tyrannous imposition by coercion of religious valucs upon the secular community."

Even though the conclusions drawn from the Kinsey Report have been fallaciously arrived at, the conclusions themselves are correct. And the publication of the Kinsey work, and the publicity accorded to it, have been of tremendous importance because they have directed public attention to the inconsistencies, the injustice, the tyranny of our existing sex laws. It is now urgently necessary that both public and expert attention be directed to the fact that the desiderated criticism and revision of our laws, in accordance with modern scientific knowledge, has already been made in René Guyon's monumental and definitive work, Nécessité d'Abolir les Infractions Sexuelles in Droit Penal. The inevitable

next step is for this book to be speedily. translated into English, published in the United States and in England, and used as the basis for all future discussion.

Meanwhile, the most important news for the American reading public since the appearance of the Kinsey Report is that The Ethics of Sexual Acts, by René Guyon, has been reprinted in a new edition, and is currently available at all bookstores. Less expensive and far more readable than the Kinsey Report, and beginning, one might say, where the Kinsey Report left off, this book seems destined at last to become the best-seller that it should have been on its first appearance. Certainly every person who has read either the Kinsey book, or any of the popular books of commentary and explanation of the Kinsey Report, will want to read The Ethics of Sexual Acts. The work of Kinsey and the work of Guyon are, in fact, inseparable.

In his introduction to this new edition, Dr. Harry Benjamin has written: "There is hardly an author anywhere with qualifications comparable to those of Guyon, who not only writes from a vast personal experience but is also a philosopher, a world traveler, and a student of human behavior, fully familiar with the main roads and the by-ways of passion. It is not unreasonable to assume that in a future society, less benighted by the shadow of past ages, Guyon will rank among the immortal emancipators of the human race. His valiant efforts may eventually accomplish in the sphere of sex what the advanced thinkers of Voltaire's day achieved in the realm of political freedom. The present volume contains many building stones upon which to rear a happier world, the world of tomorrow, although it may take generations before the edifice is completed."

It should be added that Guyon's Sexual Freedom has also now been published in the United States, and translations of his other volumes are planned for the coming years.

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