(few were either effeminate or were attracted to men who were).

"But it cannot be assumed that all homosexuals are over-fond of their mother, have poor relations with their father, or come from an unhappy or broken home. In this sample, there are thirty-eight (30%) contacts who came from homes where both parents were present, whose parents' marital relations were average or better, who got on well with their fathers, whose mothers were not possessive, and who described their childhood as happy. Even when we subtract the number of contacts who were only children, we still have thirty-two (25%) contacts who seemed to have enjoyed a happy, secure, unemotional home life as a child."

Interestingly the book offers the first explanation this reviewer has seen for two other factors commonly reported among homosexuals, by noting that in most families, children who do not get married find it difficult to leave the family home. Thus many homosexuals end up caring for their mother late in life not because of any exceptional possessiveness on the part of the mother, but simply due to the fact that other brothers and sisters married and moved away, and they were stuck. Similarly the large percentage of homosexuals who move to large cities also stems from the fact that families tend to keep unmarried children at home. If a son is to get free from his family at all, he generally has to find a job in another city.

The survey also found homosexuals to be much more steady at their jobs, and more satisfied with them, than is often supposed to be the case.

This is undoubtedly one of the best books of its type currently available in the field. Unlike Mr. Westwood's earlier Society and the Homosexual, New York, 1952, the present work is

primarily composed of case reports, data, and statistics. As a result its style does not have the easy readability of the earlier book, but it more than makes up for this in its wealth of documentation.

Lyn Pedersen

SEX OFFENSES, Law and Contemporary Problems, School of Law, Duke University, Vol. XXV, No. 2, Spring, 1960, $2.50.

This impressive volume comprises one hundred and sixty pages of as comprehensive, yet concise treatment of sex offenses as is known to this reviewer. The nine papers range in theme from Judge Morris Ploscowe's, "Sex Offenses: The American Legal Context," through a masterly presentation by Professor Clellan S. Ford, of Yale University of "An Anthropological Perspective," to Rev. Joseph Fletcher's "An Ethical View." These are followed by Stanton Wheeler's "A Sociological Critique," Dr. Bernard Glueck, Sr.'s "A Clinical Approach," "The Medical and Legal Implications of Sex Variations," by Professor Karl M. Bowman and Bernice Engle, a paper on adolescents, another on the British experience and one on the Scandinavian experience.

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The richness of material assembled furnishes the student with a dazzling cross-section of modern liberal thinking, in line with American Law Instirecommendations concerning sexual "offenses." As a sourcebook for argument and for examples to be used in combatting current repressive statutes and the uninformed attitudes which uphold them, a better text could hardly be devised. For instance, Rev. Fletcher writes, "In pleading for the separation of sins and crimes, this article asserts quite simply that it is not the business of law to punish