THESE, SOMEWHAT BRIEFLY and perhaps inadequately stated, are what I consider might be some of the main principles of a new (and I hope refreshingly different!) code of sexual morality. Already, of course, such a new code is being partially practiced in these United States; and there are clear-cut indications that the future will see it even more extensively followed.

What kind of statutory changes would the consistent following of such a new sex code require? A good many drastic ones, I would say. As Kinsey and his associates have pointed out, under the rules still found on our statute books about 95 per cent of American males and a high percentage of our females should have been, at some time during their lives, arrested and jailed.

Under a sane sex code, however, husbands and wives would no longer be required to have relations with each other (as they now are in most of our states); divorce by mutual consent would be quickly and easily granted, once proper financial and child-custody arrangements had been made; premarital sex relations would not be illicit; sex deviates would be sent for psychotherapy rather than jailed and punished; and sex censorship would be virtually nonexistent.

No child, under a sane sex code, would be considered illegitimate; and, as now occurs in several Scandinavian countries, if children were bor out of wedlock, both mother and children could be helped, rather than severely penalized.

Would abortion be legally permissible in a sexually sane society? I believe most certainly it would-not because of the great number of unmarried women's pregnancies that might take place, but because married couples in particualrly would not be required to bring into the world unwanted children, if somehow they slipped up on their contraceptive technique.

In many important ways, then, the legal sex codes would surely have to change in consonance with the regular sex customs of a sexually permissive, unpuritanical community. And so they would. The real issue is the open, unhypocritical acceptance of actual changes-changes in law would naturally follow.

Already, as every sex study shows, our sexual behavior has become enormously liberalized during the past several decades. Sex attitudes of today, as expressed in our most popular mass media, for instance, have become far freer than those of the 1950s. And the liberal trend seems to be continuing.

The facts are in. Our sexual behavior is almost as far removed from what it is legally supposed to be as we could possibly make it. When are we honestly going to admit and accept this? I

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A HOMOSEXUAL MEDICAL DOCTOR WRITES:

A Matter of Self-Esteem

MEN ARE BEAUTIFUL. Two men.agreeing to share their lives as well as their sexual experiences are beautiful together. Why, then, do so many of these unions fail in weeks or months? The lure of promiscuity and fascination for the unknown or unexperienced are the reasons usually given, but let's examine our personality structures a little deeper.

From the time of our first sexual experiences "behind the barn" or our first masturbation experience the overwhelming reflex as well as learned emotional reaction has been one of shame. Our parents, wanting to avoid sexual excesses and many times because they themselves felt guilt and inadequacy in their sexual role, enforced these feelings of shame and degradation. As we grew older and heard the snickers and angry denunciations of "queers," we learned the attitude of society was to ostracize and punish the homosexual, and so the shame we felt was now official and legally enforced. We accepted society's concept of sexual aberration and made these concepts our standards. Most attempted to avoid falling into this category, but when it became evident to each of us that, if we were to be ourselves and reach any fulfillment of life's promises, we must be of a