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THE FLAMING HEART by Deborah Deutsch, Hilary and Linda, after a marriage which they try to make "normal", both explore the world of homosexuality. The story is both sympathetic and shocking, rich with Gay World detail. 271 pages, $3.75
THE PANE OF GLASS by John Barlow Martin. Inside the "insane asylum" of Columbus State Hospital in Ohio, this brilliant journalist and sociollgist looks into the seldom-explored world of the schizophrenics. Especially valuable for therapists and counselors. 397 pages, $6.00
THE DAY ON FIRE by James Ramsey Ullman. This 700-page novel based on the life of the post Rimbaud, contains a lenghty episode in the protagonist's life in the Paris homosexual world. $5.95
SIGMUND FREUD'S MISSION by Erich Fromm. A frank psychoanalytic appraisal of the Master of Psychoanalysis, explaining many of his actions and beliefs that have been either ignored or misinterpreted by the heroworshipers. $3.00
AUBADE by Kenneth Martin. A tender and sensitive story about a 16 year old boy who is awakening to his homosexual orientation, all the more remarkable because of the youth of the author. $3.00
THE PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUALITY by Chas. Berg and Clifford Allen, M. D.'s. Every aspect of the subject is presented in pro and con fashion by two eminent British psychiatrists. Includes full Wolfenden Report on Homosexuality. $4.50
THE PLAGUE OF LUST by Dr. Julius Rosenbaum, A 400-page handbook of olassical erotology, an indespensable addition to libraries of students of history and medicine because of its insight into Greek and Roman venery. $6.00
THEY STAND APART edited by Judge Tudor Rees and Harley V. Usill. A oritical survey of the problem of homosexuality. $3.75
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A HISTORY OF SEXUAL CUSTOMS
By RICHARD LEWINSOHN, M.D.
ex, while one of the shorter words in the language, has perhaps been the subject of more discussion than any other aspect
of human behavior. Dr. Lewinsohn is not interested in worrying the subject in the ways that have lately become so familiar. His approach is not statistical, not psychoanalytic. It is historical. He traces, with documentation and detachment, the story of human sex-life in relation to the arts, the social structure, law, medicine, superstition and customs, historical change.
Since the dawn of history, as Dr. Lewinsohn relates, man has honored asceticism and the most extreme forms of sexual curiosity; has punished the breach of the marriage vows by death and passed through periods when it was considered ridiculous if not actually foolhardy for a woman to love her husband. In Babylon, man offered his women to the temple gods as prostitutes, in Egypt insisted on incestuous wedlock for his Pharaohs. Woman has been chattel and goddess, "oracle and the instrument of the devil. Man's sex life is more than his acts, and much of the fascina-
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ting detail in this book is concerned with his amazingly varied attitudes.
ABRAHAM STONE, M.D., author of A Marrige Manual and other books, has this to say of the approach, purpose and value of A HISTORY OF SEXUAL CUSTOMS: "Dr. Lewinsohn's book is a sober, dignified and scholarly presentation... I, feel that the volume makes a very valuable contribution to our understanding of sex mores and sex behav lor in the history of man.”
Some of the aspects discussed Polygamy • Ovid on Free Love
The Mysteries of Pompeli • The Anti-Feminist Revolution • Aesthetics and Sex The Of fice of the Eunuch • The Enigma of Casanova⚫ Wigs and Crinolines · Police State and Temple Prostitutes
Romance •
• Suttee and the Art of Love • Intercourse with the Devil Victories of Knowledge
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