lieve that as with capital punishment-one more determined push will see reform of something that is a peculiarly odious piece of English hypocrisy."

INTERSEX CATEGORY MORE THAN A RARITY

In Atlantic City recently, surgeons reported that perhaps thousands of men are really women, and thousands of women are actually men. These are the people with "inter-

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characteristics-possessing attributes typical of both sexes. And they may actually be predominantly of the sex that is opposite from what they appear.

"Sex abnormalties are much more common than we used to think," said Dr. John McLean Morris, professor of gynecology at Yale University. He discussed that some babies destined to be girls can be virilized, acquiring some male charac-

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teristics, if their mothers are given almost any kind of hormone during pregnancy. He believed that benefits from taking hormones were not worth the risk of virilization of unborn females. True sex, he said, could be determined by checking chromosome patterns from anyone, or by looking at the chromotin mass found in the nucleus of cells in the female. If sex abnormalities can be detected early, they can often be corrected surgically before a baby is two years old-and before the infant is conscious of whether it is one sex or another, Dr. Morris told the panel discussing intersexuality.

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NEW FEATURES COMING IN FUTURĘ REVIEWS

New features which will appear regularly in Mattachine REVIEW will start appearing in the next (December) issue. In it readers will find "Les Artes Gaies," by David Layne of New York, a commentary on stage

and screen and the arts. Beginning in January, other features will be added, and some previous departments revived with a view to giving the REVIEW a wider reader interest for the general reader, and with some relaxation of emphasis on the ponderous articles which call for changes in law and attitude that have been stated so many times and in so many ways. More news reports, criticism and lay commentary will be published. If received, each issue will contain a fiction item, and greater attention will be paid to the selection of poetry items from time to time.

This improvement and expansion of REVIEW content coincides with an increase in subscription and newsstand price which takes effect on January 1, 1963. Increasing costs and limited revenues (the REVIEW has virtually no advertising income) forced the price raise, but along with it the material presented will be of greater value and interest to the reader. New rates will be 7.50 per year,..75 per copy in the U.S.; 10.00 per year foreign. In the meantime, anyone may renew for up to three years at the present rate-5.00 per year in the U.S., 6.00 foreign.

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