Letters

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AGE OF CONSENT Sirs:

A point that I think should be clarified is the so-called "age of consent." I personally do not favor an age barrier in the field of homosexual relations. Granted, I would not approve of any legal age" person from accosting a younger one. However, we have an assault and battery law to cover that case. Nor do I favor those queers who make a blackmail game by getting an older person in a ticklish situation.

However, just because males in this State are supposed to somehow magically become adults upon reaching twenty-one (when some never are adult, even at ninety-one) does not say the argument is valid. Around my neighborhood there are a group of boys from fifteen to twenty who enjoy their relations with each other, but when they see an older male who they have an urge for they approach him and when accepted have a thoroughly enjoyable time.

This is merely to show you that some so-called minors are committing a crime which would bring punishment upon the adult, whereas when they screw around among themselves if they were discovered they would merely be punished by their parents or the juvenile authorities. So long as the younger male of fifteen to twenty is so inclined and knows what he is doing, I see no reason for him not to follow his natural inclinations. After all, it's better than raping a girl and thus making her have an unwanted child.

You one time published a questionnaire asking about sports participation. As a viewer I like college wrestling, ice hockey, college and pro football, and swimming. I firmly believe that those who participate in body-contact sports do so because it gives them a recognized and accepted way in which they

work out their frustrated homosexual urges without being censured.

Mr. F.

San Francisco, California

Dear Joe Aaron:

I am interested in this business of Homosexuality and don't know for sure whether I should be classed as one or not. I just don't seem to have any desire for women, but I do for some younger men or boys. I am an old bachelor of sixty-one.

I got into a bit of a mixup with a young guy by writing him a letter. His sister got hold of it and sent an officer down to check up on me. They don't give me any credit at all for all the things I've done to try to help. this nineteen year old boy with, as the cops. say, a mental capacity of fifteen years.

His family don't seem to give a damn for him until he gets into mixups from drinking, and then they raise hell. This poor boy has never had a father really and is very unhappy and upset, a real mystery boy, but the most likeable and attractive kid you would ever want to meet. I'm afraid I "love" this boy, not only for the sexual attraction, but because I know he needs some kind of help. That's what I've been trying to give him, but he seems to think he's OK and resents anything I try to do for him.

Mr. H.

Toronto, Ontario

POSTOFFICE SUBVERSIVE CONDUCT

Let me congratulate and thank you for the excellent reminders (August, 1961) that "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Bouquets to Del McIntire for his up-to-date words for the wise, and the not-so-wise, in "Tangents", and to Robert Gregory for his reminder about the continual obnoxious snooping and tampering with our mail by the Postoffice.

I fully agree with the closing question in one letter "When will we queers stop crying about our woes and start doing something?" Your readers perhaps need reminding that the American Civil Liberties Union is interested particularly in homosexuals be-

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