cluded that the very nature of the expensive training they must take disqualifies them to -analyze correctly this phenomenon, due to certain basic assumptions on which their system is built which I feel I can demonstrate to be faulty.
Only a layman could discover these errors In their logical structure as their very training precludes their own critical appraisal of the foundations of their alleged science. The theories on homosexuality of some of the more prolific psychological writers read like the confessions of a paranolac.
was for renewal of my subscription to the REVIEW.
Since that time I have noticed in the REVIEW that there is a "Subscribing Membership," which entitles such a member to INenables one TERIM and most Important to hold his head a little higher than the minimal, supporter.
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Some of our novelists seem to understand the homophile much better. Mr. C.A., Cal.ful EDITOR'S NOTE: This seems especially true of some of the women novelists (Mary Renault, Marguerite Yourcenar, Iris Murdoch)
Perhaps this is because they are not subjectively involved in male homosexuality.
REVIEW EDITOR: On August 6 I sent you a money order in the amount of $5, of which $4
Unlike Mr. W.E.G. of Louisiana (letter in July 1959 issue), I think that it is a wonderthing that such organizations as Mattachine and One exist at all. But, among slaves, if one dares to rise up at all be will be attacked rather than the slave-masters because to attack bim will be safe, and God-knows-how-justified anger will thereby be given a vent.
Bless you, not only for your splendid alm's but also for your putting up with our Individual pettinesses! H.H., Los Angeles.
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mattachine REVIEW
Although the following article speaks of "cure" for sex offenders, the REVIEW doubts if such is possible or even necessary in many cases. Adjustment from anti-social behavior patterns would be a better concept, it seems. However, the following is presented because it is of interest in that it shows the trend in correctional philosophy in California. It is a part of a recent six-article series that appeared in the LOS ANGELES TIMES.
Group Therapy Helps Jailed Sex Offenders
BY JAMES HUBBART
"I look back," the hand some inmate was saying, "and I wonder what made me end up the way I have -in prison:"
With convictions for vagrancy, two armed robberies and smoking marijuana in violation of his parole, he has been behind bars for the last five years.
He wants out. And the California Adult Authority, which decides such things, wants him out.
Figured in Riot
For the inmate, in the words of a report by his keepers, has been "a target for aggressive homosexuals" and as such was once the central figure in a riot at the Deuel Vocational Institute at Tracy.
"Do you have anxieties about being a homosexual?" asked Ervis W. Lester, one of two Adult Authority members interviewing the prisoner for parole.
"I don't consider myself a homosexual," he replied. "Bisexual, maybe."
The prisoner is one of 2,000 men confined at the California Medical Facility, which rises starkly from the fields of wild oats south of Vacaville, a sleepy farm town between San Francisco and Sacramento.
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Not Just a Prison
Its stockade fences, guard towers and cell blocks mark it unmistakably as a prison. Yet it is operated not as a prison in the classic sense, but as a r tal institution.
"You might call us a combination of both," conceded its director, Dr. M. R. King, a psychiatrist..
Vacaville is peopled by criminals adjudged not quite insane enough to weave bas kets in the comfort of a hos pital run by the Department. of Mental Hygiene.
"There's quite a disparity between the legal and medical definitions of insanity,' observed Robert Feigen, a correctional counselor. "The
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