to listings of the same book under other subject headings are given, this is a hard thing to avoid in cataloguing sex scenes. Voyeurism and masturbation and a few other varieties of activity are likely to take place almost simultaneously in many such episodes, and the bibliographer must decide which act is central and work from there.

It probably would have been better had Mr. Reisner omitted the short story from consideration. Since he does make mention of "Just Boys" by James T. Farrell, why then leave out "Baby Face"? Since he mentions "The Knife of the Times" by William Carlos Williams, a fine Lesbian story, why does he omit "The Sailor's Son," an equally masterful story of homosexuality (male)?

I have only one other complaint. Since Mr. Reisner's general attitude toward the infinite variety of sexual

expression found in the books he has examined for us is good humored and grown up, I am at a loss to understand his repeated use of the derogatory word "perverted" instead of the scientific and detached "deviant." This is made more absurd by the fact that some 22 of his 33 general subject headings need one or the other word to describe them. Or do they? If deviant expressions of sex so far outnumber "normal" expressions of sex, haven't we got the Orwellian 1984 attitude already with us: War is Peace and Peace is War-Deviant is Normal and Normal is Deviant?

Ah, well. This is a good and useful book. And the fact that it is filled with laughs and has a wonderfully healthy attitude toward the side of life that interests most of us most makes it worth having done, despite its inevitable deficiencies.

James Colton

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