BOOK REVIEW

Men's Liberation by Jack Nichols. Penguin Books, New York, 1975.

FPs come in all sizes, all degrees of education and all degrees of intellectual curiosity and interest. Thus the same thing does not appeal to everybody but the one thing all FPs have in common is the fact of their maleness. As such they should all be concerned with the problems of being men in this society. I have often pointed out that FPs were in the vanguard of men's Liberation because they have met and learned to deal in some degree with their own feminine side. Naturally enough being of the FP persuasion myself and writing in a magazine devoted to their interests my comments have largely dealt with the masculine-feminine conflict as it manifests itself among cross dressers. I think my comments have been valid and important in helping FPs as such understand themselves better. However Jack Nochols in this book goes much further because he addresses himself to the general problem rather than to the specific, that is, to all men not just to those of us who have discovered cross dressing as a "way out."

I met Jack on my trip to New York last October. He is now the Editor of the magazine Together, which was formerly Sexology. We had lunch together, he brought me a copy of his book. We had a marvelous couple of hours together and both of us felt reluctant to break if off-he to go back to work and me to go to other appoint- ments. If I had never met Jack in person I would have been impressed with the book, but having met the author and read the book I am almost overwhelmed. Seldom have I read a book that has so much to

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