And finally knowledge of these manifestations needs to be supplemented by knowledge of yet other ways in which the libido seeks satisfaction, consciously or unconsciously, so that in the end homosexuality is seen as but one sector, somewhat arbitrarily marked out and quite irrationally stigmatised, of the continuum of sexual life, on which, after all, culture, civilisation, happiness, life itself depend. Even a disappointing production like the new anthology of Dr. Berg's* might be seen as an effort along these lines.

It does not follow that homosexuality is not an undesirable condition. Like all neuroses it is most likely to

* HOMOSEXUALITY. Edited by Dr. Charles Berg. (Allen and Unwin, 30s.)

lead to unhappiness, and any progress made in the way of remedial treatment (like that so encouragingly reported on by the Portman Clinic) must be welcome. But this in turn means that any attempt to add to the existing load of unhappiness, either through the direct action of the law or through the the indirect encouragement given by the law to blackmail and persecution, is to be deplored. Homosexuality is sometimes said to be a 'delicate' matter. What a strange word to apply to something which causes harsh misery and unhappiness to large numbers of people, and on which the opinions of so many of the rest are as irrefragable and as ugly as those concrete lamposts which are now so liberally scattered across our finest cities and countryside!

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