Much more study is needed, and in a less repressed atmosphere than now obtains. It is of course incumbent on the homosexual (and the repressed homosexual) to make a greater effort to know himself. Society can hardly judge homosexuals fairly until it has given them some sort of chance to prove themselves in the open. Were it to be proved that all homosexuals in present society are sick, it would not indicate that they could not be quite healthy in a more healthy society. It may well be that society will find that it has an absolute need for its repressions, but we can never know that until we have tried, at least on an experimental scale, to live without some of them.

If society permits, the matter may find some natural solution, (hardly possible now). And in so doing, society might discover it has released a great energy pentup in its soul.

the homosexual in France

By Prof. André Baudry

(The following is a transliteration of Prof. Baudry's article rather than a literal English translation of the French manuscript. We felt confident our readers would prefer this version, which we assure you takes no liberties with the writer's opinions, instead of a more exact but less idiomatic translation.-Eds).

A subject as vast as that suggested by the title can hardly be dealt with in an article as brief as space limitations require. I shall have to limit myself to comments on a few manifestations of our times which everywhere claim liberty and dignity for everyone but the homosexual. ONE in America and ARCADIE in France have great tasks but a future of immense potentiality.

French law does not punish homosexual acts. Since the adoption of the Napoleonic Code homosexuality has been permitted among adults of both sexes, adulthood being defined as eighteen years.

Under Petain, however (the socalled French State, 1940-1944), the age of homosexual adulthood was increased to twenty-one years. The

governments which followed did not alter this provision, a flagrant injustice and denial of human liberty, since HETEROSEXUAL acts are sanctioned at the age of eighteen.

This is a clear attempt to reduce the number of homosexuals through legislation. It assumes that homosexuals are not as capable of love nor as able to lead their lives intelligently as are heterosexuals. It assumes that an eighteen-year-old boy is not capable of deciding which form of love suits him-unless he happens to select the heterosexual form! This legislation further implies that adults between eighteen and twenty must be protected from homosexuals who are, implicitly, regarded as contemptible. We must oppose this injustice!