some more or less similar statements. .

In the House of Commons on May 28th, Mr. Desmond Donnelly (associated with the HOMOSEXUAL LAW REFORM SOCIETY) and 2 other M.P.s asked Home Secretary R. A. Butler when and if the government intended to permit discussion by the House of the Wolfenden proposals. RAB dodged adroitly (the Tory and Labour leadership outdo one another in skill at dodging this issue) and passed the buck to the opposition.

ROUNDELAY

That eminent contemporary theolegian, Billy Graham, told a Cow Palace audience, during his recent slam-bang crusade to save San Francisco from sin, that sensual love is lust. A few nights earlier he'd praised "the sack" dress for sexlessness. God gave sex for four reasons, Billy explained, extrapolating quite rashly, for a Fundamentalist, from Bible doctrine: "to love properly, to set up a home, bring children and supply creative energy." He went on to condemn the salesmen of "immoral literature," who he said, do more harm to the nation than Communism. When asked a few days later by a Calif. Assembly subcommittee to appear as an expert witness to testify on immoral literature and its influence on youth, Billy was reported by some papers as saying he was too busy to appear, by other papers as saying he'd be glad to . . . At any rate, papers agreed on his bland admission that he'd never laid eyes on any "immoral literature." Which makes him a real expert witness. The subcommittee had earlier called for a formal protest with the Mexican government about alleged quantities of pornography being

carried across the border into California.

The committee didn't bother to call as experts the team of Brown Univ. psychologists who that same day reported their findings that reading smutty books does not make the reader more likely to commit sex crimes. In fact, they said, "There is some evidence that delinquent behavior is actually lessened by 'bad reading." Drs. Levy, Lipsitt and Rosenblith said blaming lewd literature is a form of scapegoatism and could lead to very

severe consequences.

Dr. Lydia Sicher, billed as successor to Vienna's Dr. Alfred Adler, says all males are afraid of women -even their own wives. "Men have always feared women, but in our Western culture, the problem is more acute. Here the male feels he must constantly prove himself adequate as a man... It is a tragedy for men as well as women that our culture stresses the positive, masculine aspects of living."

Robert Schoonmaker, Jr., in INSPECTION NEWS, house organ of Retail Credit Company, discussing "Underwriting Moral Aspects": "An applicant with a good business reputation and normal family and social relationships will usually be a desirable accident and sickness risk. Any mark of deviation will usually indicate a questionable or uninsurable individual. We are not censors of morals, we are appraisers of longevity and mortality. . There are really two aspects of the sex problem-extramarital entanglements of the 'normal' individual, and sex deviates . . . With respect to sex deviation, this subject comes in for very little mention because of its nature. While today we are more realistic than we used to be and are ready and willing to discuss conditions as they are and not as we

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