became a prize pupil, as I can see now, looking back over the introductory schooling. In later years as I read and studied the books of Caprio, Chideckel, Henry, and a score of well-posted writers, showing how widespread homosexuality and lesbianism has so truly always been, and remains today, I am still of the mental view I had strongly implanted in my mind during the first ten years of my youth, especially during my youthful marriage to a magnificent person, a confirmed lesbian since her seduction as a schoolgirl of seventeen by her thirty-one year old sister-in-law, who had started her interests while at college under the guidance of an older roommate.

All this experience seemed to fall into place as naturally and as matter-of-factly as any other social activity with never moment's hesitation, so far as I can recall, as being off-color or unnatural.

My wife seemed to attract women and to be sought after as a choice morsel from the day she came out and learned properly to evaluate her body. I have read numerous case histories and medical reports on lesbianism and they seem inclined to look for and seek a hidden cause for the girl strolling down strange sex paths, but I have never been able to see more in the inclinations than a perfectly natural urge to find out what makes the body react to the touch of hands and fingers.

You have no idea how plainly the enormous lesbian family in U. S. is seeking an outlet and a contact. College girls are so uninhibited in their search for the female body-beautiful and for books dealing with unlimited lesbianism that were this type of book to be openly marketed a million copies of some books on female homosexuality could be sold. I had long thought that the Homo World bought all such matter but am now convinced that the lowly female today outbids the male in her search for sex literature and for books using four-letter words freely.

Mr. D. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

into a female body in the next life, and vice-versa.

Keep up the good work and let the people think. That is what assists in progress.

Dear ONE:

Miss S.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

One of the main reasons for the existence of ONE is the education of the public in the hope of the eventual acceptance of our group. Therefore, why shouldn't we be shown as we really are? If it is possible to write Ladies Home Journal stories about us, so much the better. Such stories would indicate that we are not sex maniacs prowling the streets for victims, but that we love just as heterosexuals do. It is not our love that is different, it is the object of our love. For the most part we crave security and the knowledge that we are especially loved by a particular person. This does not sound like degeneracy or perversion to me. It sounds like what any red-blooded American wants, or says he wants.

A straight person said to me after reading The Well of Loneliness, "What a nice story. You could almost imagine that Stephen was a man." When I heard that I rejoiced that Radclyffe Hall had taken the subject out of the realm of sensationalism, where it too often dwells, and brought it within the scope of the ordinary man's understanding.

The main thing to be shown is that the attraction one homosexual feels for another is based on a harmless natural urge and not one which is criminal or perverted, and that therefore we are entitled to the protection under the law vouchsafed to other citizens of the republic.

So let's have an occasional bit of romantic fluff. Escape literature is good for us, because our lives hold too much excitement as it is. And the public needs to know that we are not two headed monsters, to say the least. I rest my case.

Miss J. NEW YORK, N.Y.

Dear Sirs:

Your August ONE was very good but I wish to dispute the article about Homosexuality and Lesbianism being hereditary. I know you have heard of my own theory a thousand or more times, but I wish to get this statement off my chest now that the opportunity presents itself. I think reincarnation is about the best explanation that suits yours truly. It is the transition period of leaving a male body in one life and coming

jone

Dear Mr. Slater:

We thank you for your kind letter and are pleased to inform you that we have formed a cultural organization which we hope will be able to affiliate with ONE in America. This organization will be on a fraternal-social basis. Membership will be free and open to homophile men and women and sympathizers. The objects of the association will be to organize regular meetings and social gatherings (picnics, hiking

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