also some interesting ads, such as the humorous "After Six" one and a not so humorous "Brut' one. This latter ad deserves some thought because its implications are such that moral homosexuals would not like to support such snickery, childish businesses.

The November Ladies Home Journal had two most interesting articles, one on birth control and the poverty question by Marya Mannes, and the other by Pearl Buck on illegitimate children fathered by heterosexual servicemen overseas during the wars and their effect on the moral image of the U.S.

It seems that magazines are having trouble making money. The Saturday Evening Post has printed controversial subjects this past year, but has failed to discuss homosexuality. In an attempt to keep going the Post will print only half the number of issues it had planned in 1965. Show Magazine has been sold; it wasn't making it financially under H. H.

CHURCHES ON CHANGE IN N.Y.

Appearing before a legislative commission considering changes in the penal code on matters of sex, Charles Tobin of the New York Catholic Welfare Society opposed any change that might ease pressures against homosexual activity. He cited the old wive's tale that homosexuals prey on youngsters, and feared that if homosexual acts are permitted the family will be threatened and everyone will become gay. So little faith! However, John V. P. Lassoe, Jr., Director of the Diocesan Dept. of Christian Social Relations, Episcopal, advocated exempting homosexuality. from criminal sanction (that is, between consenting competent adults

in private) and said, "There is no need to restate here the 'modern sociological and psychiatric principles' that led the commission to suggest this change . . . Obviously we accept (these principles) as part of God's continuing and progressive revelation about man's nature, and it is clear that they have done much to reshape a view once held by religious groups."

THE TEST THAT FAILS TO TEST

Dr. Stefan T. Possony of Stanford University's Hoover Institute is an intelligence expert who prepared a report for the House Government Operations Committee. He says in his Report that the lie detector, in use for pre-employment clearance by the CIA and other such agencies, not only fails to detect homosexuals, but actually encourages the hiring of homosexuals. Why? Because, in his opinion, most homosexuals are not ashamed of their sex life, and are proud to answer questions about it and thus have no emotional strain that the machine registers. The homosexual passes while the more "virile" men fail, because they have been reared in the tradition that sex is a private matter and thus are uneasy when talking about it.

HAPPENINGS HERE & THERE

The New York County Bar Association has called for changes in the state laws governing sexual behavior. Revised code would recommend that adultery would no longer be a crime, homosexual acts between consenting adults would not be a crime, the age of consent for women in laws dealing with sex offenses would be lowered from 18 to 16. Basis of the recommendations is "the supposition that sexual behavior of the

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