one sex, so there can be no dividing line between heterosexual and homosexual attraction. The attraction exercised by one human being on another is not based on difference of the sex organs, but rather on the secret laws of aesthetics, for all that our knowledge of them is only fragmentary; it is based on pleasure in certain proportions, in the rhythm of movement, the tone of words, in harmony, and even in contrast between thoughts and feelings of the most various kinds. The need for nearer approach, which is born of these things, is above sex. The object can be male as easily as female."

Few books Sartre come s

For many people this viewpoint is not valid, but it is undoubtedly true for others, for whom only a relationship postulated on total personality has meaning. have been written about the bisexual person. close to it in INTIMACY; Lulu, who loves her impotent and childlike husband in a maternal way and goes back to him after an escapade with a more virile man, is actually in love with her girl friend, Rirette. On a much lower level (from a literary standpoint) we have the marriage of Laura and Jack in Ann Bannon's WOMEN IN THE SHADOWS: while the marriage is never consummated in the usual senso, and Jack continues to seek lovers among younger men while Laura remains interested in her former apartment mate, sho does become the mother of Jack's child by artificial insemination an act not without erotic overtones and there seems to be a sexual element in their affection, of which the author herself is apparently unaware.

A more realistic character is Ursula, in Tereska Torres' WOMENS' BARRACKS; after being introduced to love by Claude, an older woman who is her commanding officer and who seems to be more or less a mother image, she falls in love with a young soldier and plans to marry him.

The classic examples, of course, are found in Colette. Any study of sexual relationships begins to seem like a guided tour through Colette; her short novels, most of all those written before 1920, are more advanced than anything we have produced since. Her Claudine, who admits being attracted to a charming woman evon while she is falling in love with her future husband, is typical of her heroines. She seems to take for granted that a variety of sexual experience is possible to human beings and that sex itself