understanding homosexuality is to clarify our knowledge of the nature of our own sexuality. It is regrettable that all too many people think of sex in terms of an absolute maleness or femaleness. Yet it takes very little observation to perceive that every person is a mixture of these two components.

Dr. Baker's secretary, who has long been associated with her therapeutic groups, brought out the need for teenage guidance. It has been her experience, in working with educational groups in her community, to become increasingly aware of the need for parental education on sex to guide their teen-agers. To quote, "One parent mother complained bitterly in a panel discussion, that her daughter was receiving torrid letters from her boy friend at age 13! She did not believe this should continue and she would like the comments of other parents." It was brought out that should she pry into her daughter's confidences and threaten the correspondence, because it was wrong in her eyes, she would dissolve any confidential relationship between her daughter and herself, thus heaping much hostility upon herself eventually, as a parent who lacks understanding, which is in-

dicative of the new attitudes on the part of parents, toward juvenile adventures with love.

A Psycho-Analyst from Hawaii, who was present at the Institute discussion contributed the following as a father of teen-age boys and leader of a therapeutic group: He explained that his home is a mecca for friends of his boys who frequently say, to quote, "Dad is always listening to other people's problems, you can tell him anything!" He further indicated that as a result of these discussions, we would be amazed at the information and misinformation on sex that these boys bring out openly. They speculate more about it than their parents would dare believe!

The discussion took a different turn when a young woman present asked questions about the role of reincarnation in connection with homosexuality, stating that she had become aware that the poetry she wrote closely resembled that of a male, French poet. Dr. Baker was familiar with such experiences, and referred to Gina Cerminara's books, namely, Many Mansions, and The World Within, which reports clinical studies and research in this field.

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