Did everyone see the cartoon on page 233 of the October PLAYBOY? And how about the BREAKING POINT SHOW on ABC. And the snappy quote from our Quarterly in the October SEXOLOGY.

Some comment must be made on a recent Mary Haworth column concerning a mother's letter asking how to inform a bachelor friend that she won't let her son go with him on a weekend camping trip-no joke intended. It seems that she has learned that the guy is homosexual because of information given her by a security officer in a government department. The children just adore the man. Mary Haworth said in reply to just tell the bachelor that the trip is off and if he is a sex deviate that he would understand. Miss Haworth, even in her usual lack of insight on such matters, did spot certain flaws in the letter. She noted that most children do not "just adore" mixed up people, but why does Miss Haworth think homosexuals are mixed-up? She also noted that some people ask such questions out of a morbid desire to talk about sex. What Miss Haworth should have worried about is how information which is supposed to be secret, and which was given by men and women in strict confidence in the assurance that it would be shown to no one, was given to some housewife just because she wanted to know something about the individual because she knew him. This question may come up a lot in the future, since Senator Dodd has questioned the right of the government to fire a man just because he gave out secret information. Some people insist that all information is public, even VD records. A final note to the mother and Miss Haworth is that they both may be

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underestimating the knowledge of the boy. He may be interested in the man as a friend and knows how to refuse to have any sexual acts, or he may be gay himself and this man is a confidant who helps the boy maintain mental health in a hostile society. Read again the case history in the November issue. Judges have found that more often than not it is the young person who seduces the older person, whether the act is heterosexual or homosexual.

NEWS FROM ENGLAND

The NEWS OF THE WORLD REPORTER writes about his own special fairy land. He finds it in Wimbledon Common, and he reports (it's easier reporting than stories worthwhile) that at night, in the bushes, it is the "secret" meeting place "of the misguided collection of misfits known as The Queers." The maneuvers that the queers go through or at least the reporter thinks they go through sound like what most of us "played" as children, what with secret codes, signals, spies, etc.

According to Angus Macpherson in the DAILY MAIL, only married men are now to be used as Service attaches in "certain foreign capitals." It seems that despite Profumo, and statistics which prove unquestionably that heterosexuals are more often convicted of treason and other blackmail offenses than are homosexuals, homosexuals are still scapegoats for the ills of society. As Peter Black reports in the same paper, "If anyone wished to devise a school for secret agents, the way Britain treats homosexuals could hardly be improved upon . . . The point is that though homosexuals are no more inclined to treachery than you are, the law as it stands gives

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