or a somebody-to-look-down-on hiereach case history the author indicates archy.

Seeing this sumptuous album, I album, I wistfully thought of Shaw's "Youth is such a wonderful thing, what a pity to waste it on children." A similar album of mature males has, alas, never been done, the closest thing being the modest volumes by Der Kreis.

Of importance is the fact that probably ten years ago nobody would have dared to publish this book. Of course, it is done now only with camouflage, but only the over-sublimated will miss all those bare bottoms and the significance of beginning the preface with a line on youth by Lord Byron—especially if one has read Knight's Lord Byron's Marriage, which contains a frank explanation of a main attraction (tightness) this particular segment of our world holds for some men, particularly bisexuals.

K. O. N.

SEX BEHAVIOR OF THE HOMOSEXUAL, Lucius B. Steiner, Gavell Corp., Hollywood, 75c. The author begins this paperback with a preface that appears to be objective. He seems sincere in an attempt to enlighten the reader. And on the surface this seems like good journalism. However, the reader begins to wonder what is in store for him, at the first sentence of the introduction: "The homosexual population is increasing with alarming rapidity. . . ." Later, on the first page, leaders of the homophile movement are called vociferous and demanding. Very soon, the reader realizes this is a book dedicated to gossip and distortion, a reiteration of well-worn accusations made by a self-appointed champion of social morality.

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The book is arranged like a scholarly case study manuscript. Each chapter presents a case history and after

his complete ignorance not only of psychoanalytic terminology but of the latest concepts of psychology. The text is spiced with such statements as, "most homosexuals are neurotic," and "all homosexuals are narcissistic." It is obvious to the knowledgeable reader that such assertions are purely products of the author's imagination.

Little credit is given to qualified experts and very little quoting from experts is done. One sentence is worth quoting in its entirety: "In homosexual studies, patients almost consistently admit sessions where orgasm is achieved over and over again, day after day, without let-up." The author neglects to inquire where the heterosexual newlywed, for example, might stand on this point.

Each chapter is dedicated, according to the author, to a single aspect of homosexuality. All that is accomplished is to link homosexuals with transvestism, pedophilia, fetichism, sexual psychopaths, transsexualism, phallic worship, prostitution, and exhibitionism. The author not only confuses these aberrations with homosexuality but in some cases with each

other.

None of these chapters provides what the author in his introduction promised the reader. The author fails to maintain objectivity. Rather he has spent the better part of the book expounding his concepts of morality. He seems to say that any sexual experience other than vaginal penetration for the aim of procreation is contrary

to nature.

A distinct impression after reading this book is that Mr. Steiner is more interested in grinding his own ax than understanding understanding homosexuality and its place in the world. His proposed solution to the "problem" is not to live and let live, but rather to "cure." The treatment he advocates is revulsion therapy, less politely known as brain-

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