of law, a la The Wolfenden Report, outlines a complete psychological theory of the cause of homosexuality (confused), and preaches a little sermon titled "The Christian Attitude towards Inverts."

A quotation from this homiletic seems apposite here: "I am sorry to have to state that, from my observation, Christian conversion does not provide the solution to sexual inversion." The good doctor is sorry because he regards homosexuality as wicked. Hear him: "Conversion awakens a man to the evil nature of his practice and gives him the desire to throw them aside . . ." It is difficult to see how a man who belives such an attitude Christian can help either homosexuals to understand and live at peace with themselves, or non-homosexuals to live with them in a spirit of tolerancewhich is the avowed purpose of this booklet.

And just what is it these 50 mensome of whom came to Dr. White voluntarily, some of whom were sent by their attorneys after getting into trouble with the law, some after being dismissed from jobs, some who were otherwise upset-just what had they been up to, what great wickedness? Mutual masturbation. Oh, seven had practised sodomy, seven more sodomy and mutual masturbation, one liked to spice things up with a little flagellation but twentyfive of the fifty practiced only mutual masturbation. Two particulars make the foregoing figures amusing. Nine of his patients told the good doctor that their homosexuality was strictly mental. And only two admitted fellatio. And Dr. White believed them allado

To be fair, it is possible that many of the men the good doctor interviewed were not homosexual at all. He mentions that he suspects this, that some were merely late maturers

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and could be expected to move on to heterosexual adjustments as they grew older. But the fact remains that the title of this pamphlet is The Homosexual Condition, and that it presents us with fifty cases implicitly homosexual. And if we accept them as such, we are forced to conclude that British homosexuals (these fifty came from all walks of life, the doctor tells us) are different from U. S. homosexuals, or that these interviewees, all but three of whom were above average in intelligence, detected Dr. White's religious bias against them, as well as his touching naivete, and confessed only to the least naughty homosexual behavior, the most winningly boyish, even schoolboyish, they could get away with.

This is not a long book, nor a good one, though its gentleness dilutes its noxiousness, and it does not deserve a long review. But it does provoke long thoughts. The reader reflects on the number of books and articles. good, bad, indifferent, he has read on this subject. He reflects on his own history and the histories of those he has loved for an hour, for a lifetime. And two emotions rise in him. One is a feeling of contempt for the presumptious ignorance of professional men like this Dr. White who. one understands from the very first sentence of his book, has not the remotest idea of what he is writing about. The second is a feeling of assurance that only by quizzing every one of the millions of homosexuals in the world could a truly fair sample be taken.

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As a homosexual, I know that not one of the case histories I have heard and read is like my own. Not in full. In some particulars, yes. In many more particulars, no. You know this too. All of us homosexuals know this. To generalize about homosexual behavior from a sample that included

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