Though often too polite to mention it, many an American returns from Britain convinced that in some of London's best circles homosexuals are as common as sin and nearly as popular. Even the British have lately gotten around to discussing homosexuality in such matters as the Burgess and MacLean case. Recently, Parliament itself asked the British Medical Association to appoint an eleven-man committee of doctors and psychiatrists to advise on how the laws concerning homosexuality might be changed. Last week the British Medical Journal printed a summary of the committee's report. It was a shocker.
Cases of homosexual offenses recorded by the...