The same issue of PLAYBOY is also distinguished by an article by Ernest Havemann on the Institute for Sex Research, founded in 1938 by the late Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey. ONE was honored by a visit from Dr. Kinsey not many months before his untimely passing, and has always acknowledged an immeasurable debt to his publications for their part in breaking the ice for ONE's special field of publishing and research. Showing very much the same sentiments, Havemann writes, "I do believe that the reports put out by the (Kinsey) Institute ... are the most important books that have been published in my lifetime. I believe that the Institute has done more to change the pattern of modern life — and for the better than any other institution that ever flourished on American soil with the one possible exception of the Constitutional Convention."

YOUTHFUL SEX OFFENDERS "REJECTS OF SOCIETY"

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In a sweeping denunciation (and with the lack of penetration) typical of the police mentality, John P. Finnerty, Deputy Police Commissioner of New York's Suffolk County thus expressed his views in an interview with the N. Y. TIMES' R. F. Shepard. In the TIMES for 5/4, Finnerty is reported as saying: "Most young people involved in sex offenses are not successful academically, and are not wanted by business. They are the excess baggage of society. They are a class of half-grown rejects of our society." In ONE's experience (and in that of many modern investigators into juvenile problems) young sex offenders were ignored or rejected by society first, and became sex offenders second. But certain classes of public officials always

seem to get the cart before the horse when dealing with social problems. The same TIMES also quoted Police Lieut. John J. Mulhern, also of Suffolk County, and apparently an expert in the mystique of tattooing: "Homosexuals are often likely to be tattooed," avers Mulhern. "Sometimes a tattoo is meant to conceal a lack of masculinity." For some graphic details, the reader is once more referred to "Shel's Camp" (PLAYBOY, Aug., '65) and his devastating caricature of rough trade.

HOMOSEXUALITY AND V.D. AGAIN LINKED

Several recent news items from many points about the country have cited statistics on the continued rise of venereal infections. The AMA NEWS for 8/30/65, for example, reports that cases of infectious syphilis have "almost tripled during the past five years," and as for gonorrhea, "the incidence has risen at a rate similar to syphilis." Male homosexual promiscuities have for many years been circumstantially linked with the rising incidence of venereal diseases. This connection is still being asserted, as, for example, in the N.Y. TIMES for 9/2/65, in which reporter Walter Sullivan states that "studies by public health agencies have shown that homosexual males in urban areas are, in some cases, so promiscuous, that they serve as rapid disseminators of venereal disease." He should also have noted, of course, that no male could possibly keep up with an energetic call-girl in the per-diem number of sexual contacts, but this is scarcely the point where public health is the matter at issue. ONE has been concerned with this problem for many years, and in its Magazine for November, 1962, published an

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