too often the strangling dogma of Medieval connecting links representToday and Tomorrow. ed in the Canons and Penitentials."

"D:. Kinsey and his staff are attempting to take a reasonable look at the biological mythology of sex. Now Dr. Bailey has applied some of the same reasonableness to the Christian tradition on one aspect of sex, that of the homophilic. He sets himself the question: How has this tradition come about? What is its genesis? Where did variations and misinterpretations creep into the picture? And most important: What can we moderns do about correcting such defects?

"Essentially, Dr. Bailey is not concerned with the question of the validity of the homophilic attitude. He is concerned with tracing modern legalistic practices to their roots in Hebraic and Greco-Roman Christian attitudes with consideration of the

As I paused for breath, Jimmy edged in: "Well, what has he to offer? What is his opinion?

"That, my dear boy," I smirked "is for you to discover for yourself. There is the book-read it!"

"But a good book review tells me what's in the book.." he complained.

"... And thereby saves you the effort of reading it yourself? No, Jimmy, not this time. Dr. Bailey is a competent speaker and says well what he has to say. Why not read 2

it?"

HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE WESTERN CHRISTIAN TRADITION, by Derrick Sherwin Bailey: Pub. Longmans, Green & Co., London, New York, 1955. 181 pp., $3.50.

Coming!

Third in a series of articles by Albert Ellis, Ph.D., New York, will appear in the February 1956 issue--Written especially for Mattachine Review. It's called, "The Use of Psychotherapy with Homosexuals." The article is a pre-

view of a larger work on the subject by this controversial author. It is based upon what he has learned during the past several years in making it possible for exclusively homosexual men and women to attain the ability to assume heterosexuality, and shed the fear and phobia which stymied their

what has been done by others.

adjustment. This article is no sermon, but it tells factually

You may not agree with it, but don't miss reading what Dr. Ellis has to say!

mattachine REVIEW

By Luther Allen

humanity's most troublesome pressure:

Regulating the SEX URGE

(A Book Review)

ALL THE SEXES: by George W. Henry, M. D.; Rinehart & Co.. New York, 1955; 588 pp.: $7.50

Luther Allen reviews with outspoken criticism Dr. Henry's newest book, taking opposite viewpoints on many of the stands held by the author. This review is published here as the opinion of the author. and not necessarily that of the Mattachine Review. In the final analysis, readers can form their own appraisal of the work only after they read the book, which the editors of the Review highly recommend they

do.

DR.

HENRY is Associate Professor of Psychiatry of Cornell Medical College, he is the head of the George W. Henry Foundation in New York City and is the author of the ambitious two-volume work, SEX VARIANTS, a detailed and technical study of abnormal sexuality of which the present volume is a popularization. To round out a summary of Dr. Henry's qualifications as a writer in this field I can hardly improve on the words of the book's jacket: "ALL THE SEXES... is the outcome of over thirty years' psychiatric and clinical research by the author The material in ALL THE SEXES is drawn from the study of more than eight thousand men and one thousand women..."

Dr. Henry states in his Introduction to provide the reader with a general picture of his outlook and approach to the homosexuality problem: "It has become increasingly evident to me," he writes, "that of the two fundamental human needsfood and sex-the pressure of sex is the more troublesome. When the sex urge finds socially approved outlet, it is the most constructive force in individual lives and a decisive factor in any cultural pattern." (This reviewer would like to point out to the reader that everything depends upon that clause, "when the sex urge finds a socially approved outlet".) "When it is thwarted or dissipated, it exerts a disorganizing influence on both the individual and society. Sexual adjustment is an important factor in practically all human relations..."

A little farther on Dr. Henry writes,. "No two homosexuals are alike, and 'normal' is an ambiguous term because it covers a wide range of individual variation. In like manner it is scientifically inaccurate to classify humans as 'masculine' or 'feminine'; each individual is an incalculable complex of masculinity and femininity The apparently facetious title, ALL THE SEXES, attempts