Prison for Sex Offences SIR,—Mr. Hewitt and others have in
these columns denounced the laws by which " biological aberrationals" are tried in our courts and sent to prison. May we ask what these critics would like to substitute for imprisonment? They insist that these unfortunate persons are not "criminals," but the fact remains that to most of us their habits are abhorrent, especially as they seem impelled to teach their practices to the young and innocent. It is this vicious impulsion which is so dangerous. Seldom is the homosexual a sufferer from congenital malformation. More often he is the slave of habits communicated to him by others, as hard to break as the taking of drugs. I suggest that if parents whose children have been the victims of " biological aberrationals" feel that the law will not impose restraint upon these perverts they will take private vengeance far more savage than anything which the law might inflict.—Yours faithfully, SOCIAL STUDENT.
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