regard for others. But this decent regard for others does not go so far as to require one to relinquish to others the right to determine whom one shall love and whom one shall not love.

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I find yet another apparent contradiction in these notes. early pages I say that the social position of the homosexual is enough in itself to accourt for most of his personality and character defects, and that those defects which Dr. Bergler lists are not, as he claims, exclusive with homosexuals but are characteristic of all social rejects. I mentioned the appearance of such characteristics in certain Jewish refugees from Nazidom, and also in Negros. Not all persecuted Jews, or all Negros, exhibit them in the same degree. Some do not exhibit tha at all. In perhaps the great majority, those typically "under dog" character traits exist only in mild forms. This means that certain individuals in these groups are more neurotic than others, and that those who are the more neurotic will react to prejudice and persecution in more extreme ways. In a social atmosphere of acceptance and tolerance an individual's neurosis may not be incapacitating and disruptive, but when he must grow up and live in a social world which is prejudiced and intolerant his neurosis is axacerbated, gets out of hand and rampages. It just will not do to overlook the fact that society itself may be pathological in some respects. It seems to me a mistake for the homosexual to put all the responsibility for his predicament upon society, but it is equally mistaken for society to shunt all the responsibility to the homosexual.

Dr. Bergler claims that characteristically homosexuals in business and the professions give jobs only to their own kind and give promotion preferably to other homosexuals. This charge is taken straight from the anti-semites' shop-worn bag of tricks. We all know that there is a tendency for white employers to hire Negros only for menial positions, for Protestants to discrizinate against Catholics and Jews, for Catholics to discriminate against Protestants and Jews, etc. There may also be a tendency for homosexuals to hire other homosexuals. Where this sort of senseless discrimination exists it is certainly deplorable. But I doubt if it is any more typical of homosexuals than of other groups. And there is certainly a very great number of employers in all groups who hire zen on the basis of their individual qualifications and merits.

Perhaps it is true that certain homosocial theatrical producers demand that young actors sleep with them in order to get parts. If this is so it is certainly as disgusting to most homosexuals as it is to Dr. Sergier. But it ought to be remembered that heterosexual producers are said tɔ make the same demands of young actresses.

It seems to me that attacks of this sort are pretty low-level propaganda.

So far as I know not a wɔrd has been written against this book. Dr. Bergler is a sort of McCarthy of the psychoanalytic group and the reactions to his book have been similar to that of many Americans to McCarthyism. "I don't like his methods but I think he's doing some good." And nobody dares to come out in the open and challenge him because nobody wants the reputation of being "soft" on homosexuals.

I try to put yself in the position of a heterosexial reader. I hear him saying, "Jeest, from the way this guy writes you'd think loving worsen was a fate worse than death." And perhaps he would continue, "Yes, that's what is really wrong with all these argınımla. All Borgmallachine REVIEW

lor wants is to give guys like this a happiness they don't even know they are missing. What's wrong with that?"

And of course this hypothetical heterosexual will have put his finger on the principal weakness in these pages. Yet is it really so simple? The missionary must often wonder why the heathen refuse to be converted when he offers them all the beauty and joy and truth of Christianity, and, to boot, reveals to then that their refusal will daan them to an etemity of hell fire. In his book, China's Jestiny, Chiang K'ai Shek speaks of the "cultural aggressiot of the Christian missionaries in China. There's that angle to be considered too.

If only the whole damn cock-eyed world could adopt that normal liveand-let-live attitude which Dr. Bergler mentions in passing, what a wonderful world it might be: Comparatively speaking, of course. comparatively speaking.

QUOTE CURE UNQUOTE... a la Bergler

By Richard Mayer

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The following is essentially a book review.......even though most of the Bergler comment in these pages has also been in the nature of a review of his book. However, Richard Hayer of Cleveland here points up some of the Important aspects of the book that my have been overlooked up to now...

What kind of homosexuals go to paychoanalysts? The reader of Dr. Edmaid Bergler's controversial book is bound to ask. Like all analysts, Dr. Bergler bases his conclusions concerning the cause and cure of homosexuality on the cases he has encountered. And like most analysts, he has been convinced by his cases that homosexuality is a disease, not merely a "sex sickness" but a sickness of the whole personality.

In evaluating Dr. Bergler's views (or those of any analyst), it is crucial to determine how typical of the mass of homosexuals is the mere handful he (or any analyst) gets to study. The answersuggested by a careful reading of HOMOSEXUALITY: DISEASE OR WAY OF LIFE? is that an analyst is apt to encounter primarily those homosexuals who are in trouble with themselves or with society--those who have an unusual degree of guilt concerning their sex activities and those who are in especially severe conflict with their environment. Is it only accidental that, of the approximately 25 cases which Dr. Bergler actually describes in his book, three came to him after being jailed for their homosexual acts, another cane after nearly being arrested, four after being blackmailed or threatened with exposure, and still another after being beaten up? Included in the reported cases are such rarities as these: a sadist, a child molester, a virtual transvestite, another fellow who regularly put on make-up in front of his family, one who paid for his analysis by stealing from his employer's cash register (Dr. Bargler discontinued the analysis when he found out), and finally, one who was literally offered a $1 million legacy to "change, marry and produce a child.".

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Since Dr. Bergler is vehemently critical of Kinsey's "statistical fairy tales" produced by the "neurotic volunteers" Kinsey mistook for a crosssection, it is indeed remarkable that Dr. Bergler fails to recognise the utterly unrepresentative character of his own collection of cases. Yet out and of such raw materials he builds his book; from the reported cases others presumably as atypical, he derives his understanding of what kind of people homosexuals are, what makes them homosexuals, and what the hances are for curing them.

On the basis of his cases Dr. Bergler observes that homosexuals are