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Homosexuality
by D. J. WEST, M.B., D.P.M.
This book is a frank and practical approach to the social and medical aspects of male homosexuality. The author's aim is to bring these problems into the open and to discuss them calmly, without bias, in the light of the most modem knowledge.
A summary of the facts about homosexual behaviour in primitive communities, in historical times, and in animals, leads up to a comprehensive description of the social, legal, and moral problem in this and other countries. In a review of the evidence about what causes homosexuality, endocrine, biological and psycho- analytical theories are all discussed. The author suggests how the development of homosexuality might be limited and also advises on the treatment of the confirmed homosexual. He finishes with a plea for a more liberal attitude to sex in general.
From the Foreword by DR. HERMANN MANNHEIM, Reader in Criminology, London School of Economics: "No more appropriate moment could possibly have been found for the publication of a book on homosexuality than the present, when, following a number of sensational trials and a considerable amount of public discussion, a Departmental Committee set up by the Government is studying the whole thorny problem. However, the success of Dr. West's book will not be dependent on such chance factors; it can stand on its own feet.
"His approach to the many and complex aspects of the subject is scientific and at the same time popular. Much harm has been done to it in the past by the extremists of various creeds, but the author is not one of them."
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