BOOKS REVIEWED

New Titles of Note

From time to time it has been the custom to present in these pages a group of book reviews as a leading feature. If the country's presses keep on working overtime, as surely they must have been doing, the occasion for such a feature could be even more frequent in the future than beretofore.

Let us not complain too loudly that there should be so many books which merit the attention of the readers of ONE Magazine. For the time was, and that not very long ago, when little was coming into print concerning homosexuality. If today there is some degree of over-supply perhaps greater discrimination among a readership will take care of this in the most effective of all ways, i.e., refusal to buy nonsense and in support of worthy publications.

It can with safety be claimed that books are even more important to the homophile than to the general class of readers. Why? Because so many homophiles are finding themselves and searching out their way of life alone. Scattered far and wide, on the farms, smothering in small towns, lost in the anonymity of great cities, they can turn to books to share vicariously the experience of others while avoiding the dangers which could so easily beset the inexperienced. They also can explore the views of scholars and scientists and take part silently in the debate about their own condition, all the while without exposing themselves to public view.

No one could wish for homophiles to remain forever "fixated" at the book-reading stage to the neglect of life itself as it pulses so compellingly all about them every day. But this in no way negates the value to us all to be had from sharing the thoughts and insights of others through reading. It is in this spirit that the following reviews, widely varied as indeed they are, are commended to your attention.

HOW MANY MORE VICTIMS? Society and the Sex Criminal. By Gladys Denny Shultz. J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, New York, 1965, 363 pages, $6.95.

This book is frankly a study of crime with a sexual component. The author is a distinguished and scholarly woman with many years of experience as a writer and editorial staff member in the field of women's interests and

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magazines. She lives alone in a suburban area and was one to whom the idea of sexual attack was unthinkably remote. But it happened, and, although she escaped serious consequences, the experience was soul-shaking and led her to an extensive study of sex crimes and a very thought-provoking and disturbing book on the subject.

The book starts with a detailed ac-