IT IS NATURAL

AFTER ALL

By Christopher Wicks

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Christopher Wicks, of New York City, author of the following article has with both hands boldly grasped the nettle from which present-day medical men and psychologists shy away with almost complete unanimity: the possibility of a genetic cause for homosexuality.

His brash courage, unsupported by specific data in this present article, will certainly elicit admiration and pique curiosity, if nothing more. ONE offers the article to its readers in this spirit.

It has always been a paradox that society should be most stupid about its most natural and fundamental urge: sex. Heterosexuals take it for granted: homosexuals distrust it.

More misinformation has been put on paper about homosexuality than any other subject. Every conceivable excuse has been contrived to explain or justify. Even the more recent popular books have been filled with half truths and wishful speculations from Gide's CORYDON to Cory's THE HOMOSEXUAL IN AMERICA. Both volumes share the common fault: they are almost totally unscientific, lacking in fact and reason.

The nature of this brief article makes it impossible for me to be detailed. The substance of what follows fills volumes and will continue to do so. Nor is the essence of this article new, only unknown to the public and unsung by the scientists.

It has been four years since I com-

pleted a year's intense study on the subject of homosexuality. The work was carried on in the company of a psychiatrist, a doctor of endocrinology and a priest who was both a bio-chemist and authority on natural and moral law. Our purpose was to determine in so far as was possible the actual cause of homosexuality. In the course of this study it was necessary to take under advisement all the existing theories and to test them.

Voluminous material was sifted, writings most notable by their prejudice and lack of fact. Finally after months it became evident that all evidence pointed to a single conclusion: HOMOSEXUALITY IS GENETIC!

The idea itself is not new. But only recently has science given serious time and experiment to the study. Actually a perusal of the prominant sexologists including Krafft-Ebing, Hirschfeld, H. Ellis and Kinsey shows that these men all had at last to acknowledge the pos-