joyable. They are now returned home and I doubt that we will again be able to persuade them to visit us down here.

"As long as this witch hunt is on, I feel our children probably have more to fear and more need for protection from the Orlando Police Dept. than from non-existant child molesters."

Charles A. Bradley

Dr. Howard Jones, Jr., recently reported sharp increase in births of bisexual baby girls since Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital has been treating expectant mothers. with testosterone to prevent miscarriages. Many of these, by outward appearance, could be and are being mistaken for boys and will grow up sexually confused. In 17 cases (at that hospital alone) in the last year, "when there was enough doubt to cause an internal examination to be made'' it was found that despite the presence of external male organs, the babies had all the internal female organs, whereupon corrective surgery was resorted to. Dr. Jones believes the future of these children will be normal. He didn't say how the surgeons decided which set of organs the child had a right to keep -and one wonders if such bisexual individuals need be particularly unhappy in a society with less rigidly either-or attitudes toward sex. He expressed the questionable opinion that there had previously been less than ten such cases in medical history, and warned that testosterone should be used with extreme caution with pregnant women. Who knows what the race might turn out like when we really begin to feel the side effects of all the suppliments, injections, etc., that are being used these days with insufficient testing-but at least they are testing.

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More sobering are UN statistics predicting a staggering world population of six billion by 2,000 A.D. barely 40 years hence. China will then have a population almost equal to the total world population 50 years ago. Even in the U.S., population is expected almost to double. Ditto for Russia. And after that what? Will the explosive increase continue? The graphs show sharper upturn as next century opens. Can even our own economy support such irresponsible growth? Catholic authorities have called these figures alarmist, saying that it's a god-given duty to be fruitful and multiply. "God will provide," they say, but can they really believe God didn't intend man to exercize a little temperance, just as religious authorities urge temperance in eating and drinking, which are also Biblically blessed. The hand of Providence doesn't seem to be feeding the overpopulated countries (including Catholic ones) at present and many of them, with the least stable economies, will triple their populations in next 40 years. In a recent HARPER'S, science writer Arthur Clarke suggests providence maybe had a reason for giving man a variable sexual instinct, and that it might be high time to encourage spread of homosexuality on large scale-before rampant heterosexual over-productiveness swamps us all . . . .

ODDMENTS

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