BE CENSURED THAN ADULTERY"....FOR THE HOMOSEXUAL, UNLIKE THE ADULTERER, DOES NOT RISK HIS SIN BEING VISITED UPON AN UNBORN LIFE WHOM THAT SIN MAY CREATE,

AS TO THE CHARACTER OF THE HOMOSEXUAL, MISS WOOTTEN DENIED THAT SUCH PERSONS ARE "DEMONSTRABLY BAD THROUGH AND THROUGH, WANY OF US COULD NAME EXAMPLES WHOSE CONDUCT IN ALL OTHER RESPECTS IS EXCEPTIONALLY ADMIRABLE."

CULTURAL INFLUENCE IN FUBLIC HOSTILITY

DR. MILLER IN HIS CONTRIBUTION MADE THIS SUCCINCT COMMENT ABOUT PREVAILING HOSTILITY TO THE HOMSEXUAL:

"IT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS TO ANYONE WHO CAN DETACH HIMSELF FROM THE STRONG CULTURAL ABHORRENCE TO ALL FORMS OF SEXUAL DEVIATION THAT NEITHER REASON NOR EMPIRICAL EXPERIENCE CAN EXPLAIN AND SUPPORT THE PREVAILING ATTITUDE TOWARDS THOSE HOMOSEXUAL PRACTICES WHICH ARE UNRELATED TO VIOLENCE, SEDUCTION OF THE YOUNG, OR OVERT INDECENCY."

THE QUESTION OF WHETHER HOMOSEXUALITY IS A DISEASE WAS ALSO TAKEN UP BY DR. MILLER. AFTER POINTING OUT THAT THERE ARE MANY VARIETIES OF HOMOSEXUALITY, HE WROTE: .NONE OF THESE NEED BEAR THE LABEL OF DISEASE UNLESS, FOR REASONS WHICH ONLY PSYCHOANALYSIS CAN DISCLOSE, THE EQUILIBRIUM (OF THE PERSONALITY) BREAKS DOWN. HEN THIS OCCURS, THEN BOTH NEUROSIS AND CRIMINOSIS CAN AND DO EMERGE FROM TIME TO TIME." BUT IT REQUIRES "CLINICAL INSPECTION IN TERMS OF CHARACTER ANALYSIS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS" BEFORE A DECISION CAN BE REACHED AS TO THE STATUS OF THE

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IT 13 CLEAR ENOUGH, MILLER BELIEVES, WHERE "CRIMINOSIS" IS INVOLVED NAMELY IN CASES OF ASSAULT, SEDUCTION, AND OVERT OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOR. "BUT DISEASE NOT ALWAYS." HE REMINDED THE READER OF KINSEY'S STATISTICS AS TO THE PREVALENCE OF HOMOSEXUALITY, AND STATED "CONSTITUTIONAL VARIETIES DO NOT CONSTITUTE DISEASE UNLESS THE FUNCTIONS OF MIND OR BODY OR BOTH ARE CLEARLY DISCERNIBLE AS DISTURBED IN THE LIGHT OF SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF RECOGNIZED DISORDER."

DR. MILLER RAISED THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THE FORMATION OF A

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