from the other family member. One interesting case with a homosexual sister reports:

"My sister and I did not influence each other in any way toward homosexuality. We were quite sur-

prised to learn it about oach other after we were

already practicing it."

Of course the lack of mutual influence does not exclude the possibility that similar influences wore operating on both children.

CONCLUSIONS REGARDING FAMILY HISTORY

but sur-

In all, the family history material shows some, prisingly little, of the disturbance usually thought to be associated with deviant personality development. We recognize, however, that the questionnaire was limited to very general items, and was, perhaps inevitably, superficial. Further information and detail, for example on the psychosexual identification of the child, on attitudes of the child toward each parent, on parents' conformity or lack of conformity to cultural sex stereotypes, would be of great interest.

IV. Personal History

It has so far been only implied that the group is predominantly homosexual. More exactly, the group by its own Judgment leans heavily toward the homosexual side of the heterosexual-homosexual balance (the concept developed by Kinsey). We have used the Kinsey heterosexual-homosexual rating scale in this survey, but have not ourselves attempted, as Kinsey did, to place each individual on the scale in accordance with objective information supplied by her. Nor was any attempt mado, as was done in Kinsey's two volumes on sexual behavior, to rato individuals for oach year of their lives on which information was collected.

The figures in Table 3, therefore, refer to subjects' own evaluati on as to where on the scale they feel they bolong. In view of the wording of the question, and judging also from some of the written comments, it seems probable that most subjects answered in the present tense. However there

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