How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.

the masculine role in life whereas, in women, homo¬ sexuality very often represents an attempt to elevate the personality beyond the limits of the contempt which women still suffer in our civilization. man becomes a homosexual because he is afraid.he will lose his artificial ego-ideal in the sexual contact with a woman. He looks at all women as dangerous threats to his sense of self¬ esteem. The woman homosexual, on the other hand, mistaken though she is in her belief that sexual congress with a male spells subjugation and submission, spiritual and physical, frequently contributes to the world’s welfare in some other sphere. Though all homosexuals have a tendency to make converts among heterosexuals of a younger age, the legal complications of Lesbianism are few, whereas male homosexuality leads quite generally to conflicts with the police and the law, to blackmail, suicide, and homicide. Unrecognized homosexuality is far more common among women than among men. It is not our purpose to go into the psychopathology of homosexuality in this chapter : our purpose is to show that homosexuality is a sexual side-show, whose meaning is always a retreat from the responsibilities of normal sexual life. Homosexuality is never a disease in itself, but rather a symptom of a general retreat from the responsibilities of adult fife. The male homosexual who attempts to show his femininity betrays the spurious nature of his thesis by over-doing his femininity to such an extent that his behaviour reminds us of a poor actor’s impersona¬ tion of a woman, not of real femininity. The female homo¬ sexual who wishes to protest her masculine qualities is a caricature of a professional he-man. It requires a meticulous and intensive training, over a long period of years, for a woman to masculinize herself, or for a man to effeminize himself. The result is always a caricature, valid only in the eyes of the one who believes that these masquerades are impressive and genuine. To normal individuals these cartoonings of sex betray their spurious nature by the very intensity of their protestations. To those homosexuals who are satisfied with their