What makes a man homosexual and is, there any cure for him? This story will try to answer that, but only in a limited way. On this subject, medical science itself is limited. American society condemns homosexuality. But it not only has not found 100 per cent cure for it; it can’t even agree on the cause. A homosexual can be a man or woman.

A homosexual is one whose sexual desires are for a person of the same sex. A heterosexual is the normal man or woman whose sexual desires are for a person of the opposite sex. Some people are both homosexual and heterosexual. They’re called bisexual. They have desires for their same sex or the opposite sex.

Two Republicans, Senator ‘Wherry of Nebraska and Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin, have denounced homosexuality among | government employes. Washington police estimate that there are 5,000 homosexuals in the capital and that about 3,750 of them work for the government. Wherry has demanded a Senate investigation. Meanwhile, government agencies have been firing homosexuals anyway. The State Department alone sacked 91, both men and women.

The State Department figures that everything connected with its business does, or may, involve national security. And, it thinks homosexuals are bad security risks, for this reason: Homosexuals, because of American society’s attitude toward them, don’t advertise their abnormality to their employers. So a homosexual lives in constant fear of exposure, particularly when it may cost him his Job. Many homosexuals pay blackmail to, people who have discovered the truth about them and demand payment under threat of exposure. A State Department homosexual, if he got into the hands of an enemy agent, might be blackmailed into giving important information.

(State Department officials say none of their 91 fired homosexuals were blackmailed although some ran around with suspicious people.) But other agencies, which don’t deal in security. matters at all, fire homosexuals on the grounds that they’re “unsuited” for gov- I ernment work. Nevertheless, no matter how many homosexuals have been fired, that doesn’t mean all homosexual government workers have been discovered. The reason is simple: It isn’t always easy to tell who is a homosexual. One may be clearly so because of his aggressive or brazen conduct, his overt acts.

Another may be so discreet or well-controlled that he could work in an office with other people for years without ever being suspected. One man may be built, and look, like a football player, and even talk like one but secretly is a homosexual, Another, with seemingly feminine ways, may not be homosexual at all. Even & married man with five children may be a homosexual, a man who, perhaps, discovered his homosexuality long after his marriage. Doctors disagree on the causes of homosexuality. These are the explanations: 1.

Some doctors believe a person is born a homosexual because of some defect in his physical make-up. 2. Others think it may be the result, not of birth, but of some experience which has had a psychological effect. For example, an emotional shock in some early sex experience that turned a man away from normal sex feelings when he was a child. 3.

Others believe homosexual may get that way from either cause: he’s born one or he becomes one through a psychological experience. What of the treatment? Can a homosexual be cured? Some can, some can’t It depends on the individual. Take a man who became homosexual through some early psychological shock. Psychiatric treatment, by dredging up out of his unconscious the true cause of his dilemma, may help hi movercome it. Another may not respond to such treatment at all.

And he certainly won’t respond if he doesn’t want to. Some homosexuals prefer to be that way. In the meantime, • homosexual thrown out of a government job, probably has tough time finding work elsewhere. So, although American society condemns a homosexual, it hasn’t done much about helping him. The puzzle part may die out some day but in a lot of homes the cross words will go on forever..