of national figures, and they have come into minor conflict with the law more often than have the women.

Family background appears somewhat more stable among the men, who also as a group como from somewhat larger families. Despite this, there are numerous indications that the men have had greater adjustment difficulty than the women.

The men surveyed are not heavy drinkers, on the whole, and except for a few admitted alcoholics, appear to drink slightly less than the women. Considerably more of them, however, attend "gay" bars.

The men are more obviously homosexual to their associates than are the women; yet in both groups only a minority believed that they were obvious to most of their work associates.

In both male and female groups over 90% Judged themselves to be predominantly homosexual on the Kinsey scale. About 63% of each group rate themselves as exclusively homosexual.

The men have had more frequent and earlier homosexual experiences than the women, and were aware of their tendencies earlier. Fower of them than of the woman, however, have had heterosexual experience, though the extent of it was greater among those men who had any.

The duration of the men's homosexual relationships is undoubtedly shorter than that of the women, if passing sex contacts are included. If such contacts are not included, the evidence is not clear-cut.

Both men and women prefer the "masculine" to the "feminine" label in their homosexual relations, though a large percent age in both groups are indifferent.

VI. Conclusion s

The two groups are similar enough in general background and characteristics so that the differences which do omerge are of interest. They seem to suggest on the whole (1) greater sex activity on the men's part, and

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