been Platonic. But does it really were matter? The two women beautiful and loved each other. Let us hope that they were able to express their love in a perfect manner with as mutual and as total surrender as they wished.

WOLFENDEN REPORT (continued from page 2)

sexual acts may rise as high as life sentences, whereas prostitution in itself is not illegal. The prostitute may be arrested only on the when her solicitation street can be considered "annoyance."

The 155-page report apparently explodes' no bombshells. It

does not seem to go further than the rumors about it from various sources during the past year and a half said it would We expect to receive our copy in time to include the actual recommendations in our next (November) issue. For December we plan a critical review of the reception accorded it by the British daily Although and weekly press. there is always the possibility that any change in British law may find some reflection in this country, we do not anticipate that there will be any immedi ate change noticeable. Its value here will be primarily in promoting some change of mental climate, without which legal revisions are impossible.

INTERIM

National news quarterly of the Mattachine Society, INTERIM, is circulated to active members, subscribing members, contributors, exchange publications and certain public agencies, institutions and professional persons concerned with human sex behavior problems. For information, please write to the Mattachine Society, Inc., 693 Mission St., San Francisco 5.

INFORMATION FOLDERS

Two folders, designed to be used as companion mailing pieces, are available from national headquarters of the Mattachine Society and its branch offices. They are "In Case You Didn't Know" and "What Has Mattachine Done?" The first outlines the homosexual problem in the U.S. and describes the purpose of the Society; the second tells how the Society is deal ing with the problem and what the organization is doing. Pri. ces are: 100 for $1.50; 50 for $1.00; smaller quantities, 3 cents each. Unless specified otherwise, orders will be filled with equal quantities of each folder.

A regular feature of ARCADIE is a one-page editorial report under the general title of LE COMBAT d'ARCADIE. This may be a succint discussion of an incident in the daily press, a report of antihomosexual writings in another publication, a salute to an individual who has performed signal service for the homosexual world or anything else that has bearing on "ARCADIE'S FIGHT". For the editors of this Parisian monthly, ARCADIE is not only the title of their publication, but also an all-inclusive term by which everything having to do with homosexuality can be designated. HEARD. AND SEEN appeared in the April 1957 issue.

ARCADIE'S FIGHT

HEARD....AND SEEN

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In the Latin Quarter. Chez Dupont. A group of "honor" students. They are talking. Animatedly.

"Hey, look here! With all these stories of homosexuality, what would you do, if a character made advances to you?"

One, muscular:

"Huh! That's simple. I'd bop him one in the kisser!" Another, mocking:

"Me? I'd send him off to his doc!"

A third, severe (he's saddened):

"I'd break off all relations with him.

A diminuendo that is not without a certain grandeur! But none of the three simply thought of a polite refusal.

And THEY think themselves, the first especially, "Christians"! And THEY aspire, the second especially, to be "scientists"! And THEY fight, the third especially, for a "civilization" which defends the "liberty of the human individual"

and go out very self-righteous! They readjust their mufflers They are it is surely established "men"! Men?

Or victims of that dark and solemn stupidity which lurks . . . for it still lurks... just as in the days of Flaubert and Baudelaire, and and in spite of the redoubled efforts Renan and Anatole France. . . on every hand

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of our brilliant existentialists "They aren't wicked; they are stupid!" Courteline said. Stupidity? Alas! it is always forgotten that stupidity changes the course of civilization, in everything essential, much more obviously than the length of Cleopatra's nose!

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