Then to sum it up: science, 1955, permits reply to the question posed in 1889 by Sandor to the jurists, the psychologists and pathologists:-No, gentlemen. It's not homosexuality that's the "vice".

1. Quite apart from the pathological conditions so frequently bunched with it, homosexuality is neither repugnant, an accident of nature, or socially deleterious.

2. Subordination of the procreative instinct is not peculiar to homosexuality. It is an elemental characteristic of all human love.

3. The fact that 2% of the population is exclusively homosexual can be construed solely as a biological, sociological, or psychological necessity. (According to the Kinsey-Pomeroy studies, 1948 and 1954, this figure is 4% for U. S. males, somewhat less for females-trans.).

4. Homosexuality has a distinct biological connection consider the close

chemical interrelationship of the three major hormonal groups-condemnation of homosexuality on "moral" grounds has no justification in fact.

5. To the Sociologist, damning of homosexuality appears as a manifestation of vestigial taboo from earlier, discredited "patrist" societies.

6. Psychology explains homosexuality by the fact that humans are "split double", masculine and feminine. The type our culture condones that person whose makeup solely is capable of interest in the opposite sex-is as exceptional, basically, as is the exclusively homosexual type.

This is an age of freedom of thought. The time has come for us to claim an even more important freedom: the freedom of love and its expression, of unabashed feeling, hewing true to the marrow of sentiment; for our feelings are far more ourselves than are our ideas.

Originally appearing in <<< ARCADIE >>

There is a school of thought that believes that every important problem faced by mankind will vanish the day men learn to use words properly; that is, the day when thoughts are expressed and understood with absolute precision. Perhaps this represents an extreme point of view, but no thinking person can deny that words improperly used or, what amounts to the same thing, improperly understood, often lead to confusion and worse.

Here is a list of words that could stand some examination: abnormal, deviation, homosexual, illness, invert, masculine and feminine, perversion, and unnatural. Let us look at them closely.

ABNORMAL

DEVIATION

ILLNESS

HOMOSEXUAL

INVERT

watch your language!

by anthony sande

ABNORMAL — This is a very tricky word guaranteed to catch the unwary, for it subtly assumes that normal, or the norm, is defined with some precision. Of course, most people will say: "But we all know what normal means, particularly in sexual matters!" Is this statement correct? Do we really know exactly what normal sexuality is? Let whoever answers "yes" re-read the Kinsey Report, carefully and with an open mind, and then try to establish just what the sexual norm of present-day Americans is! And do not forget to check with a reliable book on statistics as to the precise meaning of the word norm.

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