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An excerpt
I've been very bad with updating. I'm sorry! As a treat, I will read you another excerpt from my favorite book, "Growing Up Straight: What Every Thoughtful Parent Should Know About Homosexuality" by Peter and Barbara Wyden, 1965.
Today's chapter: Chapter 7 - When Homosexuality First Becomes Visible: The Prehomosexual Child"
TOO FEW PREHOMOSEXUAL children are identified in time to be helped. Most of them are allowed to drift slowly into full-fledged adult homosexuality, as in the following case..
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Unknown to the parents, numerous tell-tale clues of prehomosexuality were visible quite early in this case, as they are in the vast majority of other such boys. The pattern of behavior is now fairly clear. Most of these boys tend to be overpolite and obedient, anxious to please adults, to be charming, witty, and "cute." Sensitivity and enjoyment of solitude are not prehomosexual symptoms. However, of Dr. Bieber's 106 homosexual study subjects, 89 avoided physical fights; 75 were excessively fearful of physical injury in childhood; 60 were isolates or "lone wolves"; and 33 played predominantly with girls before puberty. Equally revealing were two negative characteristics. When these homosexuals were children, only 17 participated in competitive group games and only 16 played baseball.
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The doctors' discovery about the unpopularity of baseball with these youngsters is particularly interesting. In fact, it has come to be considered something of a classic in phychiatric (sic?) circles, all the more because the boys' fear of the game was associated with two major themes that kept appearing in their dreams. These themes were described as follows:
"The fear of the 'fast' ball, apprehenesively anticipated as injuring their genitals (castration anxiety, and the inability to bat. The bat splinters, collapses, or the ball is weakly hit (fear of lack of mastery, fear of humiliation, impotence)."
Coming up next time: how to tell if your daughter is in a prelesbianism phase.
Today's chapter: Chapter 7 - When Homosexuality First Becomes Visible: The Prehomosexual Child"
TOO FEW PREHOMOSEXUAL children are identified in time to be helped. Most of them are allowed to drift slowly into full-fledged adult homosexuality, as in the following case..
...
Unknown to the parents, numerous tell-tale clues of prehomosexuality were visible quite early in this case, as they are in the vast majority of other such boys. The pattern of behavior is now fairly clear. Most of these boys tend to be overpolite and obedient, anxious to please adults, to be charming, witty, and "cute." Sensitivity and enjoyment of solitude are not prehomosexual symptoms. However, of Dr. Bieber's 106 homosexual study subjects, 89 avoided physical fights; 75 were excessively fearful of physical injury in childhood; 60 were isolates or "lone wolves"; and 33 played predominantly with girls before puberty. Equally revealing were two negative characteristics. When these homosexuals were children, only 17 participated in competitive group games and only 16 played baseball.
...
The doctors' discovery about the unpopularity of baseball with these youngsters is particularly interesting. In fact, it has come to be considered something of a classic in phychiatric (sic?) circles, all the more because the boys' fear of the game was associated with two major themes that kept appearing in their dreams. These themes were described as follows:
"The fear of the 'fast' ball, apprehenesively anticipated as injuring their genitals (castration anxiety, and the inability to bat. The bat splinters, collapses, or the ball is weakly hit (fear of lack of mastery, fear of humiliation, impotence)."
Coming up next time: how to tell if your daughter is in a prelesbianism phase.