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One_way of summarizing the insti- _ tute’s report would be this: When the THIS ARTICLE, BY THE LATE DR. ALFRED C. KINSEY’S SUCCESSOR AS DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR SEX RESEARCH, IS DRAWN FROM THE FOURTH AND LATEST OF THE FAMOUS “KIN. SEY REPORTS," TO BE PUBLISHED IN JULY. IT CONTAINS THE INSTITUTE’S OPINIONS ON HOW AMEBLCAN SEX LAWS SHOULD BE CHANGED. THESE CONCLUSIONS ARE HIGHLY CONTROVER- world talks about “sex criminals,” it is talking about many kinds of men. These, can be roughly divided into two groups. | About Group I therecan benodoubt; | these men, the callous rapists, the child | molesters, the exhibitionists and ob- scene phone callers, are indeed guilty of antisocial conduct; society must some- - how try to restrain them. Fortunately they are far less common than all the recent discussion of sex crimes has led most people to believe; the danger the average woman and her children face from them has been greatly exaggerated. Group II is made up of men who may have been indiscreet, may have been immoral, but were in no sense vicious; they did what they did in private, and with a willing partner: Such are many of the men convicted of statutory rape, adultery or fornication, and most of the homosexuals. They help inflate the statistics and add to our fears about sex crime. Actually they merely prove that sexual adjustment is difficult amt tom-~ picated it our modern civilization. “ SIAL AND WILL BE OBJECTIONABLE TO MANY PEOPLE. THE JOURNAL BELIEVES, HOWEVER, THAT THEY DESERVE A CAREFUL HEARING, BECAUSE THEY ARE BASED ON AN EXHAUSTIVE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF 2,721 MEN OVER A PERIOD OF 25 YEARS. OF THESE MEN, 1,356 WERE SERVING PR SENTENCES FOR SEX CRIMES. THE New . Cal REPORT 1S CALLED SEX OFFENDERS: AN ANAL- YSIS OF TYPES (HARPER & ROW). THE BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY DR. GEBHARD IN COLLABORATION WITH HIS ASSOCIATES JOHN GAGNON, WARDELL POMEROY AND CORNELIA CHRISTENSON. THE SUMMARY ON THESE PAGES WAS PREPARED EXCLUSIVELY FOR LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL ~~ WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF ERNEST HAVEMANN.