on the topic, "Must the Individual Homosexual Be RoJected in Our Time?" (I had eagerly awaited this panel, as I was consumed with curiosity as to how anyone could answer this questi on unless he was first prepared to say whether he had stopped beating his wife or not. Unhappily, no one took exception to the wording of the question and I was left with my own thoughts on the sub je ot ....... namely that known individual homo sexuals are accepted in our time in many areas, depending on the individual's other qualifications. The topic, "Must Homosexuality Be Rejected in Our Time?" would not have brought such intense brow-knitting out of me.)

Sam Morford, research director of the attachine Society, was moderator. Harry Benjamin, M.D., New York and San Francisco, endocrinologist and sexologist, was the first panelist. Dr. Bonjamin has had 40 years study in the field of endocrinology. He worked with Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld in pre-Nazi Germany. Through Dr. Alfred Kinsey he became acquainted with the work and aims of the Mattachine Society.

Dr. Benjamin said in reference to the panel topic that he was ashamed that the question had to be asked. Ho stated that the situation represented a form of "puritanical terror", that the enforcement of the law was highly selective, that a few homosexuals undoubtedly aoted in such a way as to bring rejection on themselves and the whole group but that other homosexuala could help change the picture.

Dr. Benjamin defined a homosexual as one who was exclusively or predominantly aroused by the same BOX. Then he went into various main theories as the cause or causes of homosexuality in an individual:

1. Heredity. In the studies of the frequency of homosexuality occurring in identical twins raised separately the incidence has been quite high.

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Endocrine imbalance. imbalance. A disturbance of the glands in the mother could affect the unborn child's later sexual development.

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