artificial social and other distinguishing symbols for male and female, and more interested in the realities involved, children would be spared at least one important sector of confusion in their struggles toward maturity.

RAISING MANLY SONS, HOW TO

On the same general theme, the Detroit FREE PRESS recently ran a series, beginning 9/19/65, by Staff Writer Jeanne Duran, which opened by noting that the cliche, "boys will be boys," may no longer be considered axiomatic in sociosexual studies. Various Staff childpsychiatrists of Wayne State University School of Medicine were heavily drawn on for scientific for scientific opinion, and among them Dr. Joseph Fischhoff had a great deal of neo-Freudian doctrine to expound. He observed, for example, that in present-day American society, women actually wear the pants in many a family, so that young boys "reveal feelings that women in general, and especially their mothers, were more powerful than any man, including their fathers. Therefore, if one had to make a choice (in gender-identity) it was better to be a girl or woman, because of the enormous power that they imagine women eventually possessed." Such boys, without 'treatment," are said to become "openly homosexual" in adole-

scence.

Again, Dr. Wm. Wattenberg, director of the Delinquency Control Training Center at WSU, is quoted as saying, "Being able to master environment directly and with some vigor is regarded as a masculine quality. A boy should be aggressive, in the sense of getting command over things and ideas; pushing forward; imposing himself on others. If a boy can't do this, he's stymied." And so on and on drones

the same weary old tune that psychiatrists have been singing for year, but never proving.

ONE never ceases to be amazed at these arbiters of sociosexual values and standards, their. apparently helpless reliance on tradition for norms and distinctions in the character and social roles of the sexes, and their mistaken belief that these norms and distinctions are, or can be absolute. Such authorities so clearly reflect what Thomas S. Szasz has spoken of as the "compulsive heterosexuality" imposed by law and custom in many modern cultures, and they so clearly bear out G. Rattray Taylor's matrist-patrist theory of sociosexual attitudes propounded by him years ago in his SEX IN HISTORY (Vanguard Press, 1954). They also illustrate modern psychiatric disregard of the evidence from genetic and other biological studies, and from zoology and anthropology, that there are no naturally inflexible attributes for male or female, either in their psychological or sociological characteristics.

In spite of the psychiatric bias, the Duran series is far superior to the average standards of the daily press in its treatment of homosex-

uality. Sociologically, it is well researched, and touches upon most of the areas (school's, etc.) where sexual behavior can constitute a problem. Journalistically, it is well organized; while ideologically, it is well in line with modern appeals for more public information and understanding in this area, and less bigotry.

PSST! IT'S ANN AGAIN

Homosexual tendencies among youths must indeed be widespread, according to Ann Landers' report (mentioned in the Detroit FREE PRESS series) that "70% of the mail which I receive from boys 14