How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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than a woman, believes himself the victim of some psycho¬ pathic tendency, but in reality he is only a coward who chooses to get satisfaction in a cheap way. The woman, who can fall in love only with a man with red whiskers, violet eyes, and small ears, hides her unconscious purpose : “ I do not want to love any man ” under the specious conditions which exclude every man while they give her the feeling that she is not cheating nature because she says : “I would love a man, if the 4 right man came along ! The fact that she knows there is no such man, unconsciously, is carefully hidden from her conscious, rational, responsible self. Homosexuality The attempted solution of the love problem between members of the same sex is called homosexuality, and this is one of the most common of all the mistaken solutions of the sexual problem. It is usually difficult to discuss homosexuality with calm and objectivity because the subject is so clouded by misconceptions. Champions of this or the other view become emotionally involved because their “ face ” depends too much on the 44 right¬ ness ” of their views. Homosexuality is one of the few neuroses whose practice is punishable by imprisonment, but although we consider homosexuality an antisocial solution of the sexual problem, we disagree with those jurists who would attempt to limit it by penal legislation. One cannot legislate sickness out of society. The attitude of most people toward homosexuality is one of misunder¬ standing and ignorance. There are always some who make a great hue and cry about it, and wish to punish all homosexuals. The homosexuals themselves, unlike other neurotics, are the only neurotics who have any social ties, but, on the other hand, they are also the only neurotics who attempt to proselytize children to their neurotic views. Homosexuality, although a flight from sex, is often an active aggression against society, and so lies on the border between neurosis and crime.