The American Friends Service Committee held a "Prison Conference in San Francisco recently. From it came the following report, published in the San Francisco Chronicle:

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REVIEW

Founded in 1954-First Issue January 1955

Volume 6

JANUARY 1960

Number 1

'RED-BLOODED MALE' KIND OF FICTION CALLED A KEY TO VIOLENCE IN YOUTH TODAY

The phrase "red-blooded American male", may as much as anything, typify the mistaken values that lie at the bottom of present day juvenile violence.

This was the opinion expressed here yesterday by Dr. Marcel Frym, a Hacker Psychiatric Clinic criminologist and the main speaker at the American Friends Service Committee's ninth annual prison conference.

"Whenever I hear the phrase 'red-blooded American male,' I shudder," Frym said. "The concept of 'sissyness' is probably the worst bugaboo of our modern culture."

The trouble, he said, is that present day mass media -the newspapers, television and magazines-have made an inseparable link between masulinity and violence.

Too often the masculine man is pictured as the man who spends his free time. punching other men in the

nose.

These images, Frym said, make their imprint on the values of adults as well as juveniles. The adult's susceptibility is only a matter of degree. Only instead of

punching someone in the nose, the adult may more often reveal his idea of masculine agressiveness in his driveing habits.

Frym said a vast majority of crimes of violence are committed by men who have terrible fears about their own masculinity-"men with a serious homesexual conflict

who destroy in an outburst of what we call homosexual panic."

These men, he said, are not men who are actually homosexual but, rather, men who are morally horrified at their tendencies in this direction and who often take out their self-hatred on others.

He warned that our present police and prison methods are inadequate for treating such criminals, mostly because they too are based on violence. Instead, he said, more emphasis is needed on psychiatric treatment and prisons able to rehabilitate rather than punish.

Editor

HAROLD L. CALL

Business Manager DONALD S. LUCAS

Production Director HENRY FOSTER, JR. Treasurer

O. CONRAD BOWMAN, JR. Editorial Board ROLLAND HOWARD CARL B. HARDING CURTIS DEWEES WALLACE DE ORTEGA MAXEY

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"Red-Blooded Male" Fiction Scored

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Pornography and the Decline of Wester Civilization, by Rolland Howard

Homosexuality Among American Indians and Other Native Peoples, by Omer C. Stewart, Ph.D.

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Will You Let This Chaos Continue?

Research Projects: Looking Forward, by Wallace de Ortega Maxey, D. D.

A Day of Firsts, by J. Howard Simpson

A Nation Betrayed, by John Sheldon, Ph.D. Readers Write

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