utes at a time. However, these fleeting minutes are described in sufficient detail to keep heterosexual readers well satisfied.

Long after the reader has become pretty sure of the reason, Dr. Wu solves the mystery of the reluctant bride when she stumbles into a veritable rat's nest of Lesbians (drawn in the ghoulish manner of Charles Addams) and describes the initiation ceremonies of these nasty women. The horrified doctor has to remove several large gold balls from the anatomy of one initiate. After soundly lecturing the errant sisters on their unthinkable. deviation from nature's course, Dr. Wu performs a little simple psychotherapy and, quick as a Bergler, the poor little bride and her chief perverter are cured. After which, Dr. Wu crawls back into bed with her own beautiful, masculine, sympathetic, perfect and adorable, and very hard-up husband.

Oh yes. The description of China a few years back is quite good, and for a little better than the first half, it was a pretty good yarn, though a bit dull in spots.

WE, TOO, MUST LOVE...

By Ann Aldrich, Fawcett

A typical picture of a segment of gay life delightfully vivid. To this reader Ann Aldrich does well as a reporter, but she (if she she is) confines herself to the bars and the "circles", omitting almost entirely the scene of the quiet couple, the suburbanite, the not so gregarious Lesbian. Also, she seems bent on revealing a latent heterosexuality in us all, just as some of us are inclined to discover the latent homosexual on the other side of the fence. To this reader it's a bit tiresome, since the human conditioning must allow for every potential, and the study of humanity is in the hands of the philoso-

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Such entries as ". . . minor tragedies and comedies of the Lesbian.' makes one feel she writes with tongue in cheek. Alas, perhaps it gives her the feeling of being a better writer than she is. or a better Lesbian? Nonetheless, if you enjoy peeking into these “minor tragedies and comedies,” you may enjoy reading this book.

ACR

Letters

Gentlemen:

As a private collector of erotica I am interested in books and films. A fellow collector suggests that you might be a source. My particular fields are Lesbianism and Bestiality. Texts can be English or French, illustrated or not.

Mr. S.

NEW YORK, N. Y.

EDITOR'S REPLY:

Most of the material that would come under the heading of Erotica would not be in our field. We are not in contact with collectors or dealers in such material and so are

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