persons sharing their interests? And what better place for such ads than ONE which exists to serve their needs? If two visitors happen into our office at the same time, courtesy demands an introduction. Why should we deny the same courtesy by mail?

Certain sex acts are, as we know, illegal in these medieval states. For ONE to arrange such acts clearly would be illegal, but running a Pen Pal club need not involve such illegal arrangements.

Those who do not have enough friends and activities to keep them busy should not be curtly answered with vain platitudes about the unsatisfactoriness of mere letters, and the advantage of getting "the real thing -in the flesh." These people don't know where or how to look for kindred spirits. It has been proven over and again that Pen Pals can be the salvation of many such people-even though others can find no real help here.

The strongest legal argument against a homosexual Pen Pal club is that such introductions presumably lead to illegal sex acts-even to blackmail or worse. The latter can be largely avoided by proper management. As for the sex acts, most homosexuals will find those somewhere or other anyhow. What they want from a Pen Pal club is something more than just sex acts. We know that such sex acts are illegal, but they are occurring anyhow, every night, at an unbelievable rate, and a thousand gay Pen Pal clubs won't change the statistics much. We must further insist, with the Church of England, the American Law Institute and others, that the outlawing of such acts is wrong, outdated, and extremely harmful. Finally, we must ask why Pen Pal clubs are legal for heterosexuals (and enough illegal sex acts result from these contacts as well) if not also for homosexuals?

F.E.

SICK

TNT

by William Lambert

"Please send me, airmail-special delivery, the name and address of that gorgeous blond in Norway whose letter you published." So wrote one Magazine reader. Another said, "This letter stood out for some reason... an undertone was entailed. I am forty years old ... raising eight Borzoi."

Other letters came directed to the Gorgeous Blond his photo having been printed alongside his modest few lines. Their tone ran uniformly along