By Wes Knight

a noted psychiatrist ásks

WHY SO MUCH HYSTERIA?

LARGELY FANNED by the public

press, periodic outbursts of raging, and unfortunately misdirected demands to "ban, chase ou imprison, hospitalize. or otherwise cure" persons homosexually inclined, are `a regular occurrence in every American metropolis. Sometimes only an

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those affected, told members of his profession. facts which should plainly show that our past attitude and method has failed, and is doomed only to inflicting greater destruction upon human personalities in num-bers impossible to estimate.

isolated act is responsible for ig-KARL M. BOWMAN, M. D., San niting the flame, which in some cities Francisco, psychiatrist and prohas reached a frenzied hysteria offessor of medicine at the University ignorance, injustice and unnecessary of California, recently deplorea in tragedy surpassing even the horror unmistakable terms the "wave of hysof witch-hunts and burnings at the teria" in government agencies restake of colonial times. The fact regarding alleged "deviate sex pracmains that as many as 15 million tices" among some personnel work▾ American men and women may be ing for the government. His declarapredominately—if not exclusively, tion was also a warning: "Innocent homosexual, and possibly through people can be falsely accused and no fault of their own. A few may be judged." introduced to the orientation by another so inclined, but, leading experts studying the subject declare that an individual's sexual direction is positively determined by the age of 16; they add, further, that many such "introductions to homosexuality" while unfortunate,. may be the opposite as well, in that acceptable social adjustment, leading to a happier life, may be more easily brought about.

But the question remains: What is our nation to do about it? Castiga tion, ostracision, banishment, punishment and even marking with a "Cross of Cain", have NOT changed the number or the inclination. In the report following, a leading spokesman who has, devoted his life to a study of the problem, plus aiding

Dr. Bowman, who is a former director of 'Bellevue (New York) Hospital division of psychiatry, and who now is medical superintendent of the Langley Porter Clinic, University of California, San Francisco, was also a former consultant to the Surgeon General, U. S. Army, in his field. His report was made before the American Psychiatric Association, of which he is a former president, at a convention in Atlantic City. Bernice Engle, former instructor in the department of classics, University of Kansas, and now resarch assistant in sexual deviation at the Langley Porter Clinic, was co-author of the report. She has aided preparation of other psychiatric articles and books with Dr. Bowman and others.

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There should be changes made in sex laws of various states, Dr. Bowman stated, including those laws that make married couples liable to felony or misdemeanor for indulging in deviate sex acts, even when practiced in private, without harm, and with mutual consent.

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Dr. Bowman scored the current official attitude of our government, as well as the general public, in regards to homosexuality.

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"The person even suspected of being homosexual is banned from any government work. Almost no corporation or other private business will hire a man who has this stigma on his record.

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"When one considers that homosexuality either cannot be cured, or at best entails a long and extremely costly treatment for even minor modifications, the grave plight of these persons can be understood."

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