ate society's prejudice are unable to afford her prices, just as the happy, adjusted homophiles like Edward Car penter have no need to go to psychiatrists or analysts. But Dr. Baker's Dr. Baker's over-statement does not approach the questionableness of your pronunciamento that "homophilism is not a biological but distinctly a psychogenic problem." How about the hermaphrodites I was allowed to examine at Dr. Hirschfeld's Institute before Hitler destroyed it? How about the many individuals who are women in all but organs-narrow shouldered, delicately boned and tenderly fleshed? Obviously these physical traits are no more inherited than the femaleness of a daughter or the maleness or non-maleness of a son.

The part of your diatribe against Dr. Baker, however, which amused me most (one has to laugh in order not to cry) was that whole paragraph asserting that any doctor who claims that there are adjusted homophiles is suspect of being homophile himself. I quite agree with you that the average man is "plurisexual"but how about that exclusive heterophile who may be "limited to one or two major forms of sex outlet because he is irrationally, fearfully fixor fetichistically restricted by certain ideas or behavior habits which he learned at some earlier time in his life" (from the Epistles of St. Paul, Epistles of St. Paul, perhaps)?

Dr. Kinsey, with whom I spent many a pleasant hour of conversation (he never pontificated) when I was teaching at San Quentin, said that his studies indicated that the man who 10

could not be aroused by stimulus from a male was as rare as the male who could under NO circumstances be aroused by the stimulus from a female, and therefore just as "queer" as the complete homophile. Dr. Kinsey would not agree with you at all that there were no adjusted and happy homophiles, and a more "normal" heterosexually-slanted male I have never met. My friend, Douglas Short, a very happily married parole officer at San Quentin who later joined the Kinsey associates, stayed with Dr. and Mrs. Kinsey in their home in Indiana, and told me that a happier, more devoted couple would be hard to find. Like you and me, Dr. Kinsey believed that most men were plurisexual, but he knew of many cases on both ends of the "norm" which managed to be quite well adjusted.

What makes you and Dr. Henry shine with such a lesser light than Dr. Havelock Ellis or Dr. Kinsey is this cocksureness. For instance, your reference to our mutual heterogenic friend, Dr. Harry Benjamin, "who sincerely, AND I'M QUITE SURE WRONGLY, believes that transexualists... may be fully adjusted."

Clearly, with you, as with Woodrow Wilson, there are only two choicesyour way and the wrong way. How can you be so sure-in a science which is still in its infancy? Was Achilles maladjusted because he adored Patroclus? Or Hadrian because he deified Antinous? Or Shakespeare because he wrote passionate sonnets to a boy, the "master-mistress" of his passion? Did it ever occur to you that Dr. Baker's feminine intuition might mattachine REVIEW

be right where your masculine imagination might be wrong? Women are so often right for the wrong reasons! Neither you nor I nor anyone is really in-

fallible-not even the Pope of Rome nor the Dictator of Russia. The more we know, the more we find out that we don't know.-C. A. Arthur.

MATTACHINE SEMINAR SERIES

"Mattachine Seminar Series" will be launched in San Francisco with a day-long second annual Publications Day program on Saturday, December 5. An afternoon panel discussion will be devoted to the topic, "Should Americans Read About Homosexuality?" and a featured speaker will be presented after an evening banquet. A third part of the program will be centered around a display of various publications related to homosexuality and other sexological subjects: American and European homophile maġazines and publications, books, popular sex guides, and entertainment publications with an accepted erotic appeal. Also to be displayed are the periodicals most often. made the object of local clean-up campaigns on newsstands in the U. S. today. Merits of these publications will be discussed.

The afternoon panel and evening dinner will be open to the adult public, while the, periodical discussion

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will be held for Society members, the press, and representatives from scientific and academic fields interested in sexological problems.

A special program folder for the event will be issued late in November. Fees for the program will be $6.50 for the entire day, or $4.50 for the dinner and $2.00 for the afternoon panel pro-

gram.

In 1960, additional programs for the Mattachine Seminar Series will be staged. Departments of Legal Affairs, Research and Social Service at San Francisco each are planning similar day-long programs to be held 60-90 days apart during the year ahead.

Addresses and comments of speakers on all of these programs will be taped and where possible transcribed and published in booklet form so as to distribute this material to a large number of interested readers.

For December 5, advance reservations are required. These should be made to the national headquarters.