masters, Scoutmasters, and other youth leaders.

The experts are against sending convicted homosexuals ordinary prisons.

Instead they recommend the setting up of teams of doctors and religious workers for the treatment and reformation of homosexuals in special centres

Incorrigible offenders should be kept under control like lunatics because they are a public danger, they urge.

A special committee of women doctors called in by the panel urged that there is no case for legal action against female homosexuals.

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Police figures given in the report show that prostitution. has also increased alarmingly.

The doctors believe this is partly due to highly suggestive films and pictures in certain newspapers, on hoardings and in the Underground.

They recommend an all-out campaign to drive prostitutes off the streets with bigger fines for soliciting and reform schools for young girls starting on a life of vice.

The panel included Dr. Ronald Gibson, assistant medical officer of Winchester Prison, who was the chairman; Professor John Glaister, Professor of Forensic Medicine, Glasgow University; Dr. Doris Odlum, a psychiatrist Dr. T. P. Rees, medical director of the Croydon Mental Health Clinic; and Dr. R. D. Summers, Metropolitan Police surgeon.

The committee of women which gave special advice included Miss Letitia Fairfield, doctor-barrister; Dr. Joan Malleson, of University College Hospital; and. Dr. Albertine Winner, senior medical officer, Ministry of Health.

* Homosexuality and Prostitytion (2s. 6d.).

In the April issue of the REVIEW, Author Lyn Pedersen will trace the homosexual situation in England through the past five years, and bring readers up to date on the findings of a British Royal Commission, the Anglican Church and the national medical society. DON'T MISS THIS REPORT!

Mattachine REVIEW

VOLUME II NUMBER 1

FEBRUARY 1956

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articles

CHALLENGE OF THE KINSEY REPORT, Richard E. Lentz.........6 SOME MYTHS ABOUT THE SEX OFFENDER, Dr. Paul W. Tappan....9 USE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH HOMOSEXUALS, Dr. Albert Ellis.14 THE GROSS INDECENCY STATUTES, Mack Fingal............. CULTURE AND THE INTROVERT, R. H. Crowther..... HOMOSEXUALITY, MORALITY AND RELIGION, Luther Allen.

Short Features

CANDAL IN BOISE, A REPLY...2 NEW DEAL FOR DEVIATES....31 rà ANNUAL CONVENTION. 4 QUOTABLE QUOTES..

Departments

3rd Annual Convention

Advance tentative program for the 3rd Annual Convention of the Mattachine Society, Inc., to be held May 11-13, 1956, at San Francisco, has been released by the Convention Committee of the San Francisco Area Council.

It will feature two days of program events for the convention proper, and be preceded by an evening reception.

Here is the schedule of events thus far set up by the committee:

FRIDAY, MAY 11

8:00 p.m. Reception

SATURDAY, MAY 12

9:00 am. Breakfast 11:00 a.m. Registration 1:00 p.m.

1:15 p.m.

Call to order: Welcome Chairman's Address

1:45 p.m.

Lectures and

Discussion's

4:30 p.m.

End of First Session Cocktails

6:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Banquet

SUNDAY, MAY 13

10:00 a.m. Writers' Seminar 1:00 p.m. Second Session Business Meeting

4:00 p.m. Adjournment

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