sumé, but without originality, of the theories of transvestism and its relations to sexual inversion.

4. J. Kepner, Jr., "An Examination of the Sexual Theories of Albert Ellis, Ph.D." (Spring, 1959). Under this modest title one finds a thorough effort made to derive, in the face of the unstable theories of Dr. Ellis, a celebrated American psychotherapist, a coherent sexological doctrine wherein homosexuality and its diverse manifestations will find their place. Mr. Kepner has a sound grasp of his subject and refers to a rather full bibliography (entirely American however:* such eminent sexologists as René Guyon, Dr. Vachet, Professor Jean Vague, not to include our friend Lucien Farre, are not even mentioned). On the whole this article is one of those which best fulfills the intentions of the ONE Institute and

*Fourteen American works are cited, one Canadian, one British.

which should have most favorable influence.

SOCIOLOGY

1. Dr. Evelyn Hooker, "A Preliminary Analysis of Group Behavior of Homosexuals" (Winter, 1959). Dr. Hooker, of the University of California, has chosen as a field of research an area of commanding interest and until now unexplored: the study of the behavior of homosexuals not only as isolated individuals but also as members of "groups" (clubs, circles, coteries, etc.) each having its own mentality, rites, and language. With perhaps too much systemization, Dr. Hooker likens these "groups" of homosexuals to "minority groups" which modern sociology knows so well; it is not unlikely that these researches, pursued systematically, thanks to the support granted by the University, will be of considerable utility to the homosexuals, who, for the first time are admitted to be not only individual beings, but also members of a social group within which is found their physiological and psychological balance and the keystone to their well-being.

How much, faced with the studies of Dr. Hooker, the lively debate with Dr. Ellis, with Dr. Blanche Baker (one of the writers in ONE), the syntheses of Mr. Kepner, can one help once more deploring the lamentable indifference of the University and the French public to sexology? Here we do not even have the theories of Dr. Ellis to criticize. Would that there were a Dr. Ellis to criticise . . . But here no one writes on these subjects (except the specialists, whose works the public never sees), so that the books of Paul Rebox, written more than thirty years ago, remain the avant-garde of audacity for France.

Fortunately Homophile Studies, like Arcadie, is bringing its stones to assist in building the noble edifice of the future!

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