curate heading would have been youngster is reported as being de-

"NO PICNICS WITH SEX."

SWEDISH MALES BECOMING FEMINIZED

"Men, it appears, are taking woman's place as the 'weaker sex at least in Sweden." So begins a Reuters' dispatch published in the LOS ANGELES TIMES for 7-18-65. The dispatch hastens to explain this statement in terms of a conspicuous decline in the health of Swedish men, and a sharp rise in the death rate for men compared with that for women. Lars Widen, director of Stockholm's Central Bureau of Statistics, is quoted as saying (of Swedish males), "Man has not merely become the weaker sex, but even the much weaker sex. But then the dispatch goes on to generalize:"Doctors and sociologists here have also noted a change in young people. They say the actual facial features of boys have become more effeminate" and that "in larger Swedish cities, it is no longer easy to decide which is boy and which is girl at first sight. Hair is the same length, sweeping down. to shoulder level, and clothes are often identical." From ONE in the U.S.A., a broad "ho hum" . . . so what else is new?

HOTBEDS OF HOMOSEXUALITY

Penal institutions have long been recognized as encouraging to homosexual activity, if only from the pure circumstance of the segregation of the sexes. Now, in an article by Jerry Ruhlow of the LOS ANGELES HERALD-EXAMINER, dated 7-12-65, juvenile "halls of detention" specifically the L.A. County juvenile detention facilities -are regarded as contributing to the spread of homosexual activity. Undergoing an average stay of four weeks, which may be prolonged up to eight months, the detained

trimentally affected by, among other things, too much idleness, and an inferior kind and extent of personal counselling. "But mostly there is idleness," Ruhlow writes. "Idle hours to learn from one another a source of barbiturates; the 'kicks' of sniffing glue; the technique of hot-wiring a car... Hours to contemplate or experiment in homosexuality or be made the target of homosexual overtures -an ever-present problem." And again, ". . . every boy we talked to was aware of homosexual activity within his unit. In the girls' facility, the homosexual incidence is even higher." ONE can find nothing horrifying, or even unusual in these observations, which describe circumstances admittedly common in all boys' schools and girls' schools in this and any other time, and which are usually controlled by providing plenty of outdoor recreation and exercise. What is remarkable, continually astounding in fact, is that the same society which bemoans the incidence of homosexual behavior in its juvenile halls would consider it sinful beyond description if the same adolescent boys and girls were quartered together and heterosexual activities encouraged. The illogic, not to say hypocrisy, of the prevailing heterosexual "moral code" SOcalled-is sometimes beyond belief.

NEW KINSEY STUDIES FAVOR CHANGE IN SEX LAWS

According to Eric Pace, recently reporting for the New York Times News Service, "A new Kinsey report challenges the popular conceptions of sexual criminals as crazed by narcotics, aroused by pornography, or goaded by senile desire." The reference is to "SEX OFFENDERS," a 923-page report

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