down. These people who come to our block have no morals or respect." And a local business man remarked, "These bums don't care about art the way Villagers did when Sinclair Lewis and Hart Crane lived here. (Now) they're just slobs." But not all Greenwichers share these dyspeptic views, and the squabbling may actually be nothing more than harmless class frictions. As one local policeman put it, "The beats don't like the swells; the swells don't like the old residents; and the old residents don't like anyone. But they get along okay without much trouble, like they always have." At least, Borders concludes, the Village remains "one of the few areas in town where stationery shops sell frankly homosexual greeting cards."

SCIENTIFIC OUTLOOK ON SEX NEEDED

Dr. Earle M. Marsh, San Francisco gynecologist, told a recent meeting of general medical practitioners in L.A. that "In nature there is no such thing as a 'good' or 'bad' sex act,' reports George Getze, Science Writer for the L.A. TIMES, in a column dated 10/28. "Doctors are as poorly educated about sex and as much in the dark as other people," Dr. Marsh is reported as statina. "Still, they are the ones most often asked for advice about it. They can help their patients if they look at sexual matters from the biologist's point of view, and not from the theologian's, lawyer's, or sociologist's."

Dr. Marsh spoke of four kinds of love, Columnist Getze continues: -Maternal, or unconditional, love; fraternal, or philosophical love for humanity; self-love, or respect for oneself and the rights and concerns of others; and sexual love-the

fusion of all of these other kinds of love with personal, erotic lover and union between two people. "When such love is mature, each partner's welfare is as important to the other as his own. According to Dr. Marsh, this mature kind of erotic love is possible between two people of the same sex.''

MORE ON M.D.'s AND SEX

As reported in Medical World News for 10/15, Dr. Harry Benjamin, world-renowned endocrinologist, recently advised the International Congress of General Medicine in Salzburg, Austria, that "the average general practitioner is usually unable to cope with his patients' sexual problems because he has not had sufficient training in the subject. 'All too easily,' he emphasized, 'these doctors speak of abnormality and unnaturalness, as if anyone knew what normality really is.' Discussions with patients should avoid expressions that carry a moral connotation-words like 'promiscuity', 'excess', 'perversion', and 'masturbation', which have inherent negative meanings."

On homosexuality, he is reported to have told the Salzburg meeting, it remains a problem mostly because it is still punishable by law in many countries, and therefore still produces guilt feelings, fear of extortion, and neuroses. Most young homosexuals are really bisexual, or have a nondifferentiating sexual desire." Along with most modern endocrinologists, Dr. Benjamin "is skeptical of androgen treatment as an attempt to make a homosexual more virile. Such therapy, he points out, 'does not change the direction of the sexual desire, but rather increases its intensity.' It is perhaps more important for the doctor to get the homosexual to accept himself the

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