must call upon all the sciences to alleviate this problem This mobilization must systematically exclude politicians, witch-doctors and quacks."

Could these be the instructions of a Louis XIV to his "Chambre Ardente?"

Señor d'Oc admits that such a program would be expensive, but he reasons that a country which can spend billions in an attempt to reach the moon-only no doubt to spread homosexuality over its now innocent face can well afford such a program. He does admit that there might be some difficulty in finding enough analysts, psychiatrists, and hypnotists to treat the twenty million people.

In the last analysis, say Señor d'Oc and Dr. Torrents the easiest and most spontaneous cure for homosexuality would be abstention and sublimation. "Those who are not interested in or who are afraid of the opposite sex should not because of this take refuge in homosexuality. Abstention and, if there is no other way, masturbation are easier, less complicated, and less compromising routes than sexual inversion.

Most of the second portion of this book purports to be an objective and scientific discussion of homosexuality with a consideration of its causes, descriptions of homosexual types, treatment and cure, etc. While I am by no means an authority on the literature of homosexuality, I seem to have read all of this before. Although Señor d'Oc claims to have interviewed and studied hundreds of homosexuals, and, presumably, Dr. Torrents has also, their examples of homosexual types are classic, being drawn from other writers. Kraft-Ebbing, et al. But the authors cannot long refrain from moralizing. Thus in their chapter on "Homosexual Love": "Homosexuals do a great deal of talking about this love for each

other. They confuse love with desire. Between persons of the same sex there cannot exist that undefinable feeling of complimenting each other, of uniting to form a single being which we call love, the material and tangible result of which is children." "Between two individuals of the same sex love is impossible, because love is a natural feeling and homosexuality is not natural. A normal feeling cannot be formed of an abnormal impulse."

If what I have already written has left any doubt as to a complete lack of the objectivity and scientific detachment which the authors profess, let me point out that their very language would quickly remove the last shred. As frequently as not any mention of the words "homosexual" or "homosexuality" is preceded (or followed) by those adjectives most likely to arouse a feeling of revulsion in any reader: abominable, filthy, execrable, repulsive, detestable, hateful, unnatural, vicious a veritable glossary of derogation. References to or descriptions of the mechanics of homosexual relations stripped of some semblance of scientific verbiage would be unprintable here; and to the point of monotony do these gentlemen seek to establish some analogy between homosexuality and coprof-

agy.

The last two chapters of this book are, however, interesting and amusing as a "tour de force" if nothing else. I wish it were possible to reproduce them in their entirety, but their length as well as the copyright make this impossible. The first of these two chapters is entitled "How Homosexuals Would Like To Be Considered And Treated." Here are some excerpts:

"How do homosexuals wish to be treated? . . . The majority wish to be treated as normal persons despite the fact that they are not. They say that