bosom? And is it surprising that a country lacking in human maturity and unsure of itself, teeming with racial prejudice, whose inhabitants spend four million dollars every day on movie tickets, and who, while making up only seven percent of the world's population yet have fifty-four percent of all the telephones in the world and ninety-two percent of all the bathtubs, whose inhabitants change automobiles every year, country where pornography in the form of lascivious movies, filthy postcards (I have always felt that filthy postcards were rather closely associated with a certain Latin country), and nude chorus girls is rampantis it in any way surprising that such a country should have twenty million homosexuals among its citizens?

Señor d'Oc believes that all homosexuality is a form of neurosis created by environment, education and behavior: the United States, as exemplified by all the things enumerated above, is a country of neurotics-its stubborn refusal to abandon an antiquated and impractical system of weights and measures in favor of the more efficient metric system is but an example of a neurotic complexand consequently is working overtime, with all the touted efficiency of its industrial system, to turn out a nation of homosexuals.

If homosexuality is a neurosis by specific factors these authors say it can be cured by hypnotism if by no other means (Señor d'Oc, as already noted is a hypnotist and as such has an ax to grind, but it must, in all fairness, be pointed out that he does not labor this point). The greatest crime of the United States against itself as a nation and against its people as a society is its failure to recognize that homosexuality can be cured and to force its deviates to be cured. Penal legislation as a corrective measure has proved a failure,

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they admit, but they would make it even more oppressive. It is, in their opinion, a crime to be content with merely giving homosexuals in the armed services a dishonorable discharge, or dismissing homosexual employees from government service, and leave them free to corrupt their associates and spread contagion, for Señor d'Oc considers every homosexual either as a kind of "typhoid Mary" unconsciously infecting everyone with whom he comes in contact. or as a veritable disciple of the devil sworn to seduce, corrupt and induct into his abominable fraternity as many of God's creatures as he possibly can in one lifetime. Every homosexual should, then, be isolated from any contact with his fellowmen, incarcerated and forced to undergo treatment. The law, at least as it is written now, and even the church have failed to extirpate this blight on humanity; now we must turn to science:

"What is the solution? There is one and only one, and this is my word of encouragement. It matters little whether we believe in the effectiveness of psychoanalysis, nor need we have any confidence in hypnotism; shock treatment may be ineffective as may be endocrinology. Where one branch of science fails another will succeed. In saying that science must come to the aid of the wretched people of the United States it is not our desire to single out one profession nor one group of specialists as being uniquely effective. We must begin in the home and then in the schools, sweep out the streets, and the public squares, clean up the movies, the stage and all publications, purge the army and the navy, disinfect government offices and penetrate even into private enterprise.... We will need doctors, psychologists, sociologists, pedagogues, statisticians, chemists, sexologists. . . . In other terms we