COME THE FOUR-LETTER WORD OF OUR SOCIETY (SOME PEOPLE CAN'T COUNT!). WE DO NOT SERVE OUR YOUTH, OUR FUTURE ADULT SOCIETY, BY RETROGRESSING TO THE LANGUAGE OF THE STORK. LOVE IS. SEX IS. TRUE, THERE ARE VARIATIONS OF EXPRESSION OF THESE WORDS, SOME OF WHICH, WE GRANT, ARE NOT ALWAYS IN GOOD TASTE. BUT CRIME, AND NOT THE PALATE, IS THE CONCERN OF THE POLICEMAN ON THE BEAT.

"NO ONE WAS EVER RAPED BY A BOOK; NOR WAS ANYONE EVER CORRUPTED BY A STAND-UP COMIC'S ROUTINE," DECLARED RALPH J. GLEASON, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE COLUIST.

BUT A COSMOPOLITAN, SOPHISTICATED CITY IS BEING RAPED AND RAVISHED BY THE ARTIFICIAL STANDARD OF THE FAIRY TALE. IN THE END, SAN FRANCISCO WILL BE KNOWN AS "THE CITY WHO USED TO KNOW HOW".

DEL MARTIN

Current Research Trends

A star-studded program of speakers appearing at the Hattachine Society of New York's convention during the Labor Day week ond was listed in the October issue of THE LADDER. We regretted at the time that was all the information we had to offor our readers, but since have been able to obtain detailed reports on two of the speakers.

Mr. Isadore Rubin, assistant publisher of Sexology Magazine presented a crituque of research on homosexuality in his address "Review of Research During the Past Twenty Years",

Describing the Kinsey Report as "an important turning point", Mr. Rubin commonded the authors success in considering tho subject matter on its own merit and their attempt to moet tho important need to determine the incidence of homosexuality. Reviewing the history of research on homosexuality, Mr. Rubin felt one might discern an obvious relationship between tho research findings and the composition of the sample studied. The 1930's saw the heyday of environmental explanations of homosexuality, supported by examples from Domestic Court, welfare agencies and charity institutions. In the 1940's and 1950's, with increasing interest in psychological interpreta-

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