2 JANUARY 1959, Page 29

SIR.—How can Mr: 11 - over :ng justify the use of 'pervert'

as a synonym for 'homosexual'? The Con- cise Oxford Dictionary gives: 'pervert, . . . lead 'hstray (person, mind) from right opinion or conduct'

Mr. Browning, and many others who write and speak on this subject, assumes that his own inclina.; tion, sexually, is 'right,' and that of the homosexual 'wrong.' He can support this assumption in no way whatsoever,

Homosexual behaviour is, in any case. 'natural' to the homosexual. I don't suppose the homosexual is able to dislike being attracted to men any more than I dislike being' attracted to, or by, my wife.— [This correspondence is referred to by Pharos in 'A Spectator's Notebook.'---Editor, Spectator.]