zine. The authors have made a rather complete survey of the history of crime and selected out those particular crimes which seem to have some sexual motivation or at least a sexual component. The account is one of unmitigated horror. It is conceivable that a criminologist might find a specialty in such an area, but why a general reader could find satisfaction in it is unthinkable. It is too popular in style for a scientific treatise and offers nothing in the way of social or individual interpretation or handling of the subject. This reviewer is not unfamiliar with the doctrine of catharsis, but it is inconceivable that the reading of this book would deter anyone from a morbid tendency he might have. The satisfaction of a morbid curiosity would seem to be the only motive generally applicable.

One of the greatest of all obstacles to a rational view of sex has been the inclusion of homosexuality under the categories of crime, psychopathology, and perversion. The authors of the book under consideration are very particular to exclude homosexuals and others who might be deemed harmless deviates from their discussion. In fact they say explicitly: "To confuse such persons with the dangerous criminals we are about to describe is both stupid and unjust." And yet one wonders how many people will read the book without asking why homosexuals are not included. Is anything really gained by emphasizing and making a strong point of the sexual component in particularly obnoxious crimes? We are all too familiar with the cry that goes up when a notable crime involving sex is committed that all deviates should be rounded up and segregated as if they were somehow responsible for what one of their number does. To whom would it ever occur to say that a certain murder was committed by a person, sexually heterosex-

ual, even when the victim happens to be the wife of the murderer, as sometimes happens? That sexual deviates are more prone to crime and revolting behavior than so-called normal people is far from proved and probably is not true. Progress toward rationality in the sex field does make some advance, but there is still a long way to go and over-emphasis upon the morbid factors would not seem to make a helpful contribution. T. M. M.

THE HOMOSEXUAL CONDITION: A STUDY OF FIFTY CASES IN MEN by Ernest White, M.B., B.S., Peter Smith, Derby, England, 1963, 41 pp.

Alfred Kinsey and his assistants were widely criticized, at the time of the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, for the smallness of the sample they used as a basis for their generalizations. If 2000 was not a large enough sample for the doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists at whom the Kinsey report was directed, are we the general public supposed to be enlightened by Dr. White's conclusions from a study of fifty men?

Granted this is merely a booklet, it is still astonishing that the publisher can have believed its release could really materially assist lay readers in understanding homosexuals and homosexual behavior. In fewer than 11,000 words Dr. White, seemingly a gentle, well-intentioned soul, briefs for us three or four case histories, attacks the Freudian motherfixation theory, discusses the feasibility of cures for homosexuality (the revulsion cure, which involves chemically induced vomiting after the subject has looked at photographs of homosexual acts, he frowns upon but admits has not yet had sufficient trial), plumps for the liberalization

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