How about exclusive heterosexuals, then? Are they necessarily

perverted or neurotic? Technically, yes. If by exclusive heterosexual we mean an individual who exclusively desires sex relations with members of the other sex; who under no circumstances, even if he were marooned on a desert island with only members of his own sex for a long period of time, could achieve sex satisfaction and orgasm through homosexual or other sex outlets; and who is utterly afraid of trying all non-heterosexual outlets and is compulsively tied to heterosexual ones; then that individual is indubitably neurotic or perverted. By unequivocally stating this in "The American Sexual Tragedy" and several of my scientific papers on human sexuality, I have drawn upon my head the wrath of numerous professional and lay readers. But I unhesitatingly say so again, and shall continue to say so until someone proves otherwise. What is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. And if exclusive homosexual desire is perverted and neurotic-which it most certainly seems to bethen exclusive heterosexual desire may be just as perverted and just as neurotic.

Otherwise stated: any individual who can only, under all circumstances, enjoy one specialized form of sexual (or non-sexual) activity; anyone who is compulsively or obsessively fixated on one single mode of sexual (or non-sexual) behavior; anyone who is fearfully and rigidly bound to any exclusive form of sexual (or non-sexual) participation;—that individual is unquestionably a pervert and a neurotic. What is more, all such individuals—and I mean all-can undoubtedly be cured of their neuroses or perversions, in the sense that they can be helped to find satisfaction in other sex acts than the one to which they are fetichistically fixated, if they really want to be cured and will work, in a psychotherapeutic relationship, for such a cure. This I have proven over and over again with homosexual patients (and other sex perverts) who come to see me with a genuine desire to gain heterosexual satisfactions.

To state or imply, then, as Freeman and Rezak distinctly state and imply, that homosexuals, by which they apparently mean exclusive or near-exclusive homosexuals, are neurotic only because "their neuroses generally spring from their homosexuality in a heterosexual world," and that they can easily "live proudly and happily with their homosexuality" is to state dangerous nonsense. It is certainly true that our heterosexual world unfairly persecutes homosexuals and makes them considerably more neurotic than they might otherwise be. It is also true that some homosexuals can "adjust" to their homosexuality in the sense of losing their guilt about it, and that they consequently can live more proudly and happily with their homosexuality than if they did not "adjust" to it. But an adjusted neurotic is still a neurotic-and often a much more serious neurotic than an "unadjusted" one: since the unadjusted neurotic at least admits how disturbed he is, and may possibly eventually go for treatment. But an "adjusted" neurotic-as shown by literally millions of our citizens who are much too inhibited truly to enjoy life, but who keep insisting