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COMMENT SHEET

Pah & Fan Letters Dept.

Mattachine Review

P. Q. Bax 1925

Los Angeles $3, Calif.

SIGNED

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mattacking REVIEW

There is need for a realistic assessment of the American sex laws that penalize sexual behavior; some laws should be revised, and perhaps some abandoned. In operation our sex laws

are harsh, too often, nourish corruption and fall to protect the community from persons who are potentially dangerous. At best they are inapplicable. Moreover, if they are strictly enforced we should be indeed witness to a colossal travesty reaching all levels of American society. Absolute law enforcement would perforce touch about 95 percent of the total male population. In contrast to the universality of illegal sexual behavior actually only a meager number of persons falls into the law enforcement net to suffer inordinate punishment for the conduct of the many, In one category alone, recent statistical studies bring to light that SIX MILLION HOMOSEXUAL ACTS TAKE PLACE EACH YEAR FOR EVERY TWENTY CONVICTIONS, In the area of extra-marital copulation, the frequency to conviction ratio is nearly 30 to 40 million to 300.

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"There is great variance of the sox laws with actual human sex behavior. Such laws are uniform in that they permit the judge to decide the issue of delinquency on the basis of antecedentsin archaic common law, which are even further removed from the realities of modern life and human behavior. In some Amerigan courts, the conviction of a defendant can be secured on the testimony produced by an immune. witness himself tainted by participation in the illegal act."-from Section IV, Report No. 9, "Psychiatrically Deviated Sex Offenders," by the Committee on Forensic Psychiatry of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, Topeka, Kansas, William S. Meninger, Chairman, May, '49.

"It has long been our experience that the homosexual adjusts best who can make the greatest compromises with his own social and sexual needs, and the best adjusted individuals are those with the fewest contacts in the homosexual world or half-world. It is quite impossible for any homosexual to live în a world peopled · R.. :

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