LETTERS

Gentlemen:

Kindly let me know whether it is possible for you to send to me ONE for the year 1955.

By an accident I've read two copies (March and April '55) and I was very astonished about the scientific way in which your articles have been written. Seldom, I've been so impressed by the frankness in which were written the "taboos and secrets" of the human society. Thank you!

I'm studying psychology at the Free University in Berlin-West and I think it is necessary to know something about the facts and problems of homosexual being.

I hope to receive a favorable answer from you and I remain,

Dear Monolithic Bastards:

MR. L.

BERLIN, GERMANY

Here is ONE who doesn't want the "chance to support what YOU believe in" and states that unless my name is removed from your mailing list the Post Office department will be given a chance to operate on you.

It is inconceivable to the writer that because of an inquiry of mine regarding available art models, I am to suffer repeated onslaughts from an amoral publication, this bolstering considerable critical opinion that the sale of nude model portraits in itself raises the moral question.

Boys, go back to your petticoats.

are

The views expressed here those of the writers. ONE's readers cover a wide range of geographical, economic, age, and educational status. This department aims to express this diversity.

This opinion is moreover held by many of the eminent clergymen, scientists, lawyers, writers and others of high standing who read ONE. We seem unable to discover your name among those of professional or intellectual distinction. If this is mistaken, please correct us.

Your extreme disturbance at receiving an artistic and interesting Christmas mailing folder, which could easily have been consigned to the wastebasket, if unwanted, brings up an interesting point. In "Society and the Homosexual," Gordon Westwood (Dutton, 1952), the author states, "Hundreds of thousands of men have marked homosexual tendencies in their make-up. The violence of their denunciation represents a desperate repudiation of their own homosexual tendencies. Moralistic indignation and an urge to punish are signs of a projected homosexual tendency."

If you find yourself troubled with a desire for wearing "petticoats" or other feminine apparel, a competent psychiatrist or psychologist might prove of assistance. This particular desire is one which the members of ONE's staff view with sympathetic detachment and a complete absence of personal interest. We are, however, always ready to be of such assistance as we may to those experiencing this urge.

MARVIN CUTLER, SECRETARY BUREAU OF PUBLIC INFORMATION

MR. E ROME, N. Y.

Dear Mr. E.

Your interesting letter received. Why do you not take up the matter with the "Post Office department" as you rather confusedly term it? We feel sure that thereby your education in law and other matters might be distinctly furthered.

As to your terming ONE "an amoral publication," this is entirely subjective. We unhesitatingly term it, on the other hand, a severely moral publication, one upholding the highest standards of ethical judgment.

one

Dear A.C.R.:

Received the attractive November issue the other day and have been thinking ever since about the anti-intellectual tendency in so many of the letters you printed. It is discouraging and depressing when so many people, not only homosexuals, but people in every category all over the country, seem to want everything brought down to a lowestcommon-denominator level and show no impulse to reach upward and outward towards greater understanding. This mental and moral flaccidity, this resistance to everything. which is in the least difficult, this tendency to