breviated form, some of the major facts that have led me to make the preceding statements. With all the information I have gathered as the result of intensive reasearch in the fields of anthropology, biology, metaphysics, psychology, sociology and allied fields, I could write books on the subject of social adjustments, and it has been a real task to try to crystallize my findings into the scope of this article without leaving out any key factors.

Part II. Types of Homosexuality

Dr. Harry Benjamin has confirmed my findings to the effect that there are several kinds of so-called homosexuals, which I classify as follows: The partial or complete physical hermaphrodite (see ONE, March 1959, p. 20), whose sex has been wrongly classified at birth, or who is an equal combination of both sexes; the partial or complete psychic hermaphrodite who, apparently possessing the clearly distinct body of one sex, actually has the psychic make-up of the opposite sexman in a woman's body and vice versa; and the psychological hermaphrodite, commonly known as the homophile or homosexual, who although originally of the sex assigned to him or her at birth, both physically and psychically, has been so conditioned as to prefer the love of his own sex to that of the opposite sex.

It will take years of research before doctors can grasp the above and learn to distinguish between the three types, and to prescribe the appropriate remedy. For the first two it is surgical operation and/or hormone therapy. It is only logical to operate to correct such defects, just as it is to operate to separate Siamese twins or to remedy a congenital harelip or other "mistake of Nature," yet, so illogical is NorthAmerican and European thinking in this matter that unfortunates who undertake such operations are condemned and ostracized, despite the

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fact that after operation several are able to procreate children! For the third the remedy would be psychological reconditioning, as yet a very imperfect and incomplete science.

Part III. Similarities Between Minority Groups

This article deals only with the psychological aspects of homosexuality. To take the homosexual and the child molester as two examples of the similarities that exist between diffierent kinds of social misfits, both have a need to love and be loved, and a desire for some kind of sexual outlet. In most people there is some degree of conscious or unconscious love for and physical attraction towards members of the same sex as well as of the opposite sex, and there is also some degree of love for and physical attraction towards younger people as well as those of other ages.

Many psychologists reason that the difference between a "normal" person and an "abnormal" person is one of degree; a normal person retains control and balance, whereas an abnormal person "goes overboard" for any number of reasons, the chief one apparently being lack of love in childhood and adolescence, which would naturally lead to a state of emotional starvation, just as a normal human being who has been starved becomes obsessed by an overwhelming desire for food and overpowered by the compulsion to eat, to the exclusion of all else. Condemning homosexuals and other victims of emotional starvation is the same as condemning a starving man who wolves his food and insists that his behavior is natural.

To give two examples of the difference between a normal person and an abnormal one according to the foregoing definition: a. everyone is usually much more attracted to shiny objects than to dull ones in recognition of which fact, Ajax cleanser, Dial soap and other products now come in

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