tructive people can be turned into useful citizens.

It is the personal belief of both authors that at some near future date sex education will improve in general and become less specifically heterosexual in tone. Perhaps at this point more of us will discover our homosexual tendencies at an early enough age to make a gradual adjustment possible. This step alone will clear up some of the more pressing social problems. It will certainly help to curb the steadily increasing rate of divorce and vastly cut down the caces of alcoholism, promiscuity, minor mental and emotional breakdowns and related problems in both men and women.

We must add that such organs of the free press as THE LADDER and ONE are an important step along the lines of liberalizing public opinion on Lesbianism as well as a moans of communication between the well-adjusted Lesbian and the maladjusted Lesbian. Wo who are fortunate in having built good lives for ourselves in spite of social pressures must reach out a helping hand to others like us who are not so fortunate emotionally or mentally.

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES

1. Louys, Pierre, Songs of Bilitis, Avon Edition, 1955, Songs #XCVI and #XCVII.

2.

Ibid., Songs #CIV and #CVI.

3. Ibid., Song #CXXXVIII.

4. Karpman, Benjamin (M.D.), Alcoholic Women, Linacre Press, 1948, pp. 75-76, 109-111, 131–137.

5. Ibid., p. 221.

In her exaggerated heterosexuality, aided always by alcohol, she became far more socially objectionable than might have been the case if she had been able to accept the fact of (her) homosexuality and attempt a homosexual adjustment...

6. Ibid., p. 141 (soo also pp. 142-232).

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