ous anecdotes, the speaker stressed that basically all people are alike.
The human personality need not be probed deeply to uncover inklings of its homosexual components, he contendod, "Homosexuality pervades our ontire lives...without exception!" Dr. Karpman drew liberally from his long professional experience to illustrato unconscious homosexuality expressed in such diverse forms as transvestism, alcoholism, fetishism, paranoia and war.
Dr. Karpman suggested that, much as we need to know what homosexuality is, we must recognize that much of what we are telling and what is being told is cultural, superficial, end systematizing, but it is not fundamental knowledge. Though Stekel and Froud recorded hundreds of case histories, even they failed to really touch the heart of the problem, Dr. Karpman said, explaining that these brilliant analytic pioneers seldom saw cases under age five. Homosexuality should properly be studied under pediatrics, he asserted, "Homosexuality should be considered a childhood disease!" Dr. Karpman hoped to review the original records of cases thought completed and revaluate the raw materials in the light of subsequent knowledge. Ho predicted the probable discovery of important information of a significance not originally recognized.
Having studied numerous cases of Lesbianism, Dr. Karpman commented, "This I know, children are not born perverted, they acquiro it in their early years. wero wo to ask
any of the Lesbians here why they are what they are they could not say because they do not know. It happened when they were too young to know.
So much hostility arises from rejection and we don't know how to handle our hostilities," he exclaimed, leading the audience to establish the inferonco.
Dr. Karpman predicted that in the future more research activity will be directed to the study of the fomalo pelvis. "The female pelvis is a remarkable thing where dynamic activities such as menstruation and ovulation ero constantly occuring. The menstruation may be light, it may be irregular it may be infrequent, but no female homosexual can o wapo it. ...By comparison the male pelvis is insignificant; yet not
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