BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS
Notices and reviews of books, articles, plays and poetry dealing with homosexuality and the sex variant. Readers are invited to send in reviews or printed matter for review.
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VARIATIONS IN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR by Frank 5. Caprio, Citadel.....
.. 5.00 The latest study by the widely acclaimed author of THE POWER OF SEX, THE SEXUALLY ADEQUATE, FEMALE HOMOSEXUALITY-in which the author makes liberal use of pornography as scientific investigation interspersed with quotations from One magazine. If your like dirty stories, this is a must.
THE OTHER MAN by Donald J. West, Morrow..
.. 4.00
A study of the Social, Legal, and Clinical Aspects of homosexuality. About the best thing on the subject to date.
ALL THE SEXES by George W. Henry, Rinehart...
7.50
The sage of Cayuga dishes up some of his oldest (and moldiest) platitudes, newly spiced with the language of bebop and trade. O science, what crimes are committed in thy name! Then again, you might be just perverse enough to enjoy this unique serving.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by Tennessee Williams, New Directions......
3.00
In his explosive Pulitzer Prize play Mr. Williams explores a dying marriage in the light of a doubtful masculinity. Possibly his best play.
GAME OF FOOLS by James Barr Fugate, ONE Inc........
A forceful new play by the author of the very popular QUATREFOIL and DERRICKS.
4.50
Remittance must accompany all orders. Add 20 cents for shipping costs, tax in California. Address ONE Inc., Book Dept., 232 So. Hill Street, Los Angeles 12, California.
THE NEUROTIC: HIS INNER AND OUTER WORLDS Joseph B. Furst, M.D.
The Citadel Press 1954
Dr. Furst rejects Freud, the Life Instinct and the Death Instinct indeed, he rejects the whole concept of instinct and all psychology based upon it. He also rejects the "anti-instinctivists" such as Fromm and Horney who believe that neuroses are products of culture. Not that Dr. Furst does not also believe neuroses are products of culture; he does, but he defines culture differently than they.
He rejects the currently popular "cultural" theories of human motivation, because he says they are all sham. He denies, for example, that toilet training methods for children or various habits of eating or techniques of weaning are at all basic to a culture. What is eaten, what is produced and who owns it are, according to Furst, infinitely more vital to an individual's social orientation. The question is a provocative one, because it would seem extremely difficult to show that the methods of weaning and toilet training were not of considerably greater importance to the infant (and, therefore, to his social adjustment) than
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