Volume 42, Number 12 · July 13, 1995
Is Homosexuality Inherited?
By Richard Horton
The Sexual Brain
by Simon LeVay
MIT Press/a Bradford book, 168 pp., $25.00; $10.95 (paper)
The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior
by Dean Hamer, by Peter Copeland
Simon and Schuster, 272 pp., $23.00
Historians of homosexuality will judge much twentieth-century 'science' harshly when they come to reflect on the prejudice, myth, and downright dishonesty that litter modern academic research on sexuality. Take, for example, the lugubrious statements of once respected investigators. Here is Sandor Feldman, a well-known psychotherapist, in 1956:
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