ual teachings, nevertheless may continue to develop fantasies made up of heterosexual elements, perhaps because of a lack of an initial homosexual stimulus. Furthermore, there is the possibility of the individual who may develop fantasies containing both heterosexual and homosexual elements. If it is possible for a person to grow up and live off a fantasy made up of both elements, the so-called bisexual may be accounted for.
This proposed theory is not necessarily designed to replace other theories, even though it does appear to this writer that it explains the phenomenon in a more realistic manner. The concept of a homosexual wanting a father substitute or fearing his mother, as a couple of examples, could be true; such preoccupations may be incorporated into the boy's fantasies. Thus, such elements could be detected in his adult value system from which he draws his concept of a mate-ideal. Furthermore, one's fantasy life may contain distorted beliefs (perhaps repressed) given to him by a close relative, and may also contain personality figures which, incidentally, are found in his fantasy life because he draws his fantasy figures in his younger years from those he is reminded of because he sees them the most. Likewise, the identification of the penis for the breast might (but not necessarily) be a building block of the original fantasies. This is not to say that these early elements have an active influence on the individual's contemporary behavior, however. One's later behavior is an expression of a current "right now" situation and is not a process of "acting out." Present needs (i.e., reaffirmation of one's existence), not past needs, are what count.
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mattacking REVIEW
The two following reports are reprinted from THE MICHIGAN DAILY, dited and managed by students of the University of Michigan. They riginally appeared consecutively, on the 28th and 29th of June of this
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POLICE, 'U' CRACK DOWN ON HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITIES
'U' Administrators Discuss Legal, Moral Responsibility
(EDITOR'S NOTE sexuality.)
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This is the first of a two-part series on homo-
By DENISE WACKER and PHILIP SUTIN
Two years ago the Ann Arbor police maintained a four-week sureillance of University facilities in an effort to curb reported homoexual activities.
Their work resulted in more than 30 arrests and convictions, f which slightly more than half were men connected with the Uniersity.
After the Angell Hall raid there was no continual surveillance in hen's lavatories, although complaints of homosexual activities did not le down entirely.
Conduct 'Special Surveillance'
Last month it was learned that the police were again conducting "special surveillance" of men's rooms in Angell and Mason Halls, he Michigan Union, Alumni Memorial Hall and other campus buildngs in a new attempt to suppress homosexual acts said to have ocurred in the Ann Arbor community.
This "special surveillance" netted more than 30 arrests on charges f "gross indecency" or "attempting to procure gross indecency." The men were not arrested specifically for homosexuality, but or attempting to entice others into homosexual acts or else were arested during the process of such acts, Washtenaw County Prosecuting ttorney William Ager said.
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