Men have argued for thousands of years that the love of a man for a man is eminently practical as a means of limiting the surplus of human beings. Without birth control, a point is reached at which we cease to be human. At that point some come to think of themselves as supermen and others become cattle or dogs. Travel in foreign countries and you'll see that clearly: you can see it in the United States if you know where to look.

Any man who argues against homophily has shut himself off cruelly from the real world. It is hard to believe that mere ignorance can be blamed for some of the perversity exhibited by the advocates of wanton proliferation.

Still, ONE, Incorporated, does not extol or instigate homosexuality. ONE concerns itself with those who are already of the homosexual bent, and only those who are 21 years old or older. ONE, Incorporated, does research and education and helps people who have got into trouble. We are doing useful work and gaining recognition accordingly.

I shall anticipate a question that is usually asked of one of our lecturers, "Are you a homosexual?" I wish I could give you a plain yes-or-no answer; but our case is not that simple.

It is hardly good form for you to ask a man, without any preface or preliminaries, whether he be a homosexual. He might ask why you're interested, and then you might feel embarrassed.

About homosexuals, embarrassed or not, you've probably been told that it takes one to tell one. Twenty million homosexuals would be delighted if things were as simple as that. Perplexities, deceptions and mis-apprehensions are common. A young man can't be too careful. Men do have their little gambits, which sometimes work and sometimes don't.

Whether or not you are a homosexual is a metaphysical question, and

such questions can get abominably murky. Any question that touches upon being any sentence that has the word is, are or be in it-is metaphysical. One of the best doctors of philosophy whom I know, and one who has studied sex far more patiently than I could, came to the conclusions that everybody is homosexual and everybody potentially heterosexual. As he put it, any man who thinks he is exclusively heterosexual just has never met the right man; and any man who thinks he is exclusively homosexual has just never met the wrong woman. Men are getting married nowadays who never got married before.

I surmise that people who find sex much of a problem don't have many other interests. Trouble-prone folk seem oddly apathetic: a lot of jail birds take little interest in their businesses or their jobs and participate in no sports. Their interest in sex may not be great but it is great when compared to their listlessness in other directions

Associated with the problem of identifying a man who may be inter-

estable in another man is the method of entering into negotiations with him.

fice. It works as does sonar, which is Step recognitiont is a favorite artia navigational aid. You make a noise. and see what echo you get. Your first overture is tentative, and if you don't get an encouraging response you try the succeeding steps cautiously or not at all. A man will make, as his initial sonar signal, a remark such as any man at all might make. For example, I once heard a man say, and I quote, The sign on the door says gentlemen; but I didn't pay any attention to it, I came in anyway. Unquote.

I'm telling you men nothing new. Any of you who are thirty or better will have been fielding overtures of that general nature for fifteen years. You have, each of you worked out your responses, your bits of patter

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