climate and the plausibility of stable homosexual relationships is a growing fact that must be assisted in an ever growing number of deviates. AGAINST: (2) THE SANCTION OF ORTHODOX MORALITY.

In the face of a hostile environment such a relationship must be done in hiding. No stable relationship can grow in an atmosphere where it is segre gated like a disease.

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The argument may also be made against much heterosexual activity. In the modern world there is a trend toward finding personal happiness without unnecessary reliance on the large public edicts. The idea of a personal moral ity that may not be necessarily shared by others is a fact of life. AGAINST: (3) AN ADULT PERSONALITY.

The old theory that holds that homosexuality in. puberty and adolescence is a normal development, that is outgrown by the adult deduces that the adult who doesn't outgrow it is stunted in his emotional growth. When we are confronted by so much foolishness and silly behavior on the part of homosexuals at large this theory deserves a hearing. It is to be expected that a man who has never matured can have little chance of enduring in a relationship that demands much of an adult personality.

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In rebuttal we'd like to quote Ashley Montague from his book Human Her edity, "... the vast majority of homosexuals are produced in response to an environment in which one or the other of the parents was markedly inadequate in some way..." We doubt very much that the personality development of either orientation is much different in terms of emotional growth. We further add that the vast social forces set against the homosexual love relationship is responsible for the difficulties among lovers-not their maturity or the lack of it.

AGAINST: (4) THE URGE TO PROCREATE.

The homosexual leads away from procreation and the many social gratifications arising out of children and family. In rejecting these values he adopts a more confining one which sooner or later must starve for being fed on a purely sexual approach to life.

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This reminds us of the argument on birth control. We answer with the same argument. If homosexuality was widely accepted as a way of life, we are of the opinion that babies would go on being bom because we believe most men would still make the opposite sex the first object choice. The question here is one of social integration-not of heterosexual segregation. AGAINST; (5) THE HARMONY OF THE OPPOSITE SEXES IN MARRIAGE.

The positive male in his quest for an answer to the riddle of existence interprets and contacts nature through the negative aspect of his life-the fe18 mattachine REVIEW

male (Simone de Beauvoir). The harmonic union with the opposite sex is short-circuited when man sees man as flesh. The resulting disharmony does not allow him to hold on to a lover for long. FOR:

Simone de Beauvoir makes a powerful philosophic argument. Could it also be added that men may attempt this contact with nature in ways other than physical union with the opposite sex? Surely this argument is much too restrictive. A man may enter into a homosexual contact in order to better understand the opposite sex (Phillip Wylie). Also man is not alone in his quest. In a union with the same sex he comes to realize much of the nature of mankind that he could not experience with the opposite sex.

One of 'Ostrich Eggs Hatches Strange Bird

By Charles Stinson

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(From the Los Angeles Examiner)

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As we all know, the French, when they put their minds to it, do things very well. As to precisely WHAT they are doing at any given time-that is a separate question.

This reviewer had not checked on them for a while and therefore was unprepared for the surprise he got when he went out Friday evening last to the Sunset Theater to see "The Ostrich Has Two Eggs."

Novelty From Paris

"Ostrich" is a well made, drily amusing little comedy about sexual lapses. Which is, heaven knows, normal fare from Paris. The novelty-even for Paris-is that the lapse to be satirized this time is homosexuality.

Now this has, of course, been a staple in private and night club entertainments for decades. But this seems to be its debut for the public screen which has traditionally treated the subject only as the somberest drama. One thinks of France's "Pit of Loneliness," Britain's "Oscar Wilde" and our own "Suddenly Last Summer." It would seem to be a major development in cinematic sex mores. And certainly its passing U.S. Customs could not be more sociologically significant.

The veteran M. Pierre Fresnay diverts as a pompous, Babbitish Paris 19