Research Experts Report

On Homosexual Studies

"WE ARE MAMMALS AND SO HAVE INHERITED FROM OUR BACKGROUND CERTAIN TRAITS. IN SOME 60,000 FEET OF FILM ON ANIMAL SEX BEHAVIOR WE HAVE FOUND THAT THERE IS NO SPECIES OF MAMMAL WITHOUT HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS AND NOT NECESSARILY BECAUSE THE MALE WAS DEPRIVED OF THE FEMALE."

SO STATED DR. WARDELL B. POMEROY, DIRECTOR OF FIELD RESEARCH FOR THE INSTITUTE OF SEX RESEARCH AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY AND CO-AUTHOR WITH THE LATE DR. ALFRED C. KINSEY OF THE RENOWNED "KINSEY REPORTS", AT THE NATTACHINE SOCIETY PUBLIC DISCUSSION MEETING SEPTEMBER 8 IN THE WENDELL WILKIE NEMORIAL BUILDING IN NEW YORK CITY.

DR. POMEROY THEN POSED THE QUESTION WHY DOESN'T EVERYBODY HAVE HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS? AND HIS REPLY BECAUSE OF CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.

IN A STUDY OF 193 CULTURES, DR. POMEROY POINTED OUT THAT 28% ACCEPTED MALE HOMOSEXUALITY, 14% REJECTED, AND THE BALANCE EQUIVOCATED. IN THESE SAME CULTURES 11% ACCEPTED FEMALE HOMOSEXUALITY, 10% REJECTED, 79% EQUIVOCATED.

"OUR OWN CULTURE IS ABOUT AS INHIBITED OR RESTRICTED AS ANY IN THE WORLD," HE DECLARED. "CHRISTIAN MORES STEM FROM JUDAISM SOME SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS B.C. WHEN THE RETURN FROM EXILE BROUGHT RIGID CHANGES. PRIOR TO THIS TIME THERE HAD BEEN ACCEPTANCE OF HOMOSEXUALITY UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, BUT SINCE THE ADVENT OF CHRISTIANITY MORES HAVE NOT CHANGED. THE EXPRESSION CRIME AGAINST NATURE' IS THE DIRECT WORDING FROM THE TALMUD."

IN QUOTING STATISTICS FROM THE KINSEY STUDIES ON MALE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, DR. POMEROY POINTED OUT THE VAST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EXCLUSIVE HOMOSEXUAL AND THE INDIVIDUAL HAVING HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS. OUT OF 10,000 CASES, 37% HAD AT LEAST ONE OVERT