Prosecution and imprisonment do not change the offender. He comes out of prison and goes straight back to repeat his "crime" until caught again. The only difference is that he is now more wary, more desperately determined not to be again found out.

The point is that what Society is stubbornly calling "criminal" behaviour in the belief that the homosexual acts that way out of malice or spite, is the only natural behaviour to him. He was born with blue eyes!

Sex deviates know the harsh punishment that is in store for them if they are detected. They have seen other deviates crucified, ruined socially and financially for following their nature.

So the deviate must lead two lives or do the impossible and stifle his sex urge. If the heterosexual man or woman was ordered by law to give up his sex or her sex urge, the heterosexual would fight to the death to defy that order. Yet Society coolly demands that the homosexual give up one of his strongest instincts with never a protest.

It is a cruel demand and an unfair one. It is an impossible demand. But it is made by law. A savage law. A law which compels thousands of human beings to live in constant terror of discovery and makes them the prize target of blackmailers. For to be even accused, let alone convicted, means utter ruin.

And the unending strain of leading a double life is too much for many individuals. There is grim irony in the fact that the Society whose unrealistic laws drive many sexual deviates to nervous breakdowns, often winds up paying the bill for their treatment in insane asylums for life.

This is what the British Royal Commission has found out and this is what the American Bar Association has echoed. The Royal Commission declared that so long as both parties were of age, both consented and their conduct was private, their conduct was no concern of the police or the courts. The American Bar Association flatly declared that if deviates were harming no one else, they should not be harmed themselves.

once aroused to change the for stealing a loaf of bread.

But both of these authoritative groups except only cases which fall within the above terms. Homosexual attacks on minors or attacks with violence on anyone, must still be punished severely.

In line with this expert opinion FLASH will no longer report court charges or trials where the three elements of age, consent and privacy are present. But this newspaper will go farther than that.

The present sections of the Canadian Criminal Code dealing with sex deviation need revision in the light of modern medical knowledge. Public opinion must be aroused to change these sections as it was laws which imprisoned people for debt or hung them

And so FLASH will campaign for those changes and report what both top authorities and our readers have to say on the subject. For only when those changes are made will thousands of Canadian men and women now living in constant fear of ugly, senseless persecution be relieved. This campaign may not be popular but it will be right. That's good enough for FLASH!