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Who and what is a lesbian?

Is lesbianism a disease or a natural occurrence?

Is lesbianism reserved for only a few people or is it a common happening?

How do lesbians live?

Are they happy with their lives?

And how does society accept them?

These are only a few of the questions that are asked by professionals trained

study this complex problem.

We will make no attempt to answer any question.

only to discuss them.

Female homosexuality had its origins dating back in time to the ancient

Sappho, a famous poetess of Greece, is alleged to have founded the love cult of

lesbianism, which derives its name from the island of Lesbos, of which she was a

native.

According to history, Sappho was known to have been a woman lover.

Sappho was a brilliant poet, and her poems became world famous.

The girls with whom she fell in love were named after her and called Sapphos.

They became the first disciples of her love cult.

Many of Sappho's poems were written for girls.

She would, in some of her poems, ask the goddess Aphrodite to help the poet in

her relation with a beloved girl.

In one of her poems, The Dye, Sappho writes, From Scythian wood they brew

the dye whose yellow hue turns gold the lovely hair of lesbians fair.

In another love's banquet she says, Grant me this, O Kypris, and ever

I will bring thee many gifts for thy altar, doves, a tender kid, and the drip

of rarest lesbian vintage.

Medical reports and several well -known authoritative books on the subject of

lesbianism tell us that there are all types of lesbians.

The masculine stereotype known as the butch or dyke in many variations.

The bull dyke, the stomping butch, and the baby butch.

The baby butch is usually the confused teenager who's not sure of what she is.

Science tells us that for every type of creature who walks the earth, there is a

counterpart. And so it is also true with the butch. In this case, the feminine

counterpart is known as the femme, or doll.

Regardless of whether butch or femme, the majority of lesbians, though they

might slightly modify their dress or hairdo, are indistinguishable from the

majority of women with whom one would naturally associate.

Lesbians, like their male counterparts, the homosexuals, are found in many

professions and master many skills.

They're found in the publishing, modeling, and theatrical fields.

They're also found in many arts and science fields.

Again, they're also found to be truck drivers, teachers, cabbies, nurses,

engineers, clerks, and secretaries, representing an impressive cross

life.

Lesbians are usually overly discreet in their methods of fighting or courting

others with the same desires.

However, like everything else, there are the exceptions.

Wherever girls and young women are to be found in any number, it is quite

possible that lesbians can be found.

The modeling business is one of these places.

Many of the girls who are models are not necessarily lesbians.

In some cases, it's the photographer who's the lesbian.

The dyke will try to get as close to her girls as possible without arousing

suspicion.

She does this until a model comes along who will respond to her advances.

Quite often, the boundaries of female homosexuality are so vague that women

into lesbianism without realizing that they're lesbians.

It has often been said that lesbians make strange bedfellows.

Cultured, sensitive, refined women, fearful of exposure among their own

patronized, dingy, dirty, off -the -beaten -path bars and clubs in search

love that could satisfy their never -ending yearnings.

It is not uncommon for a well -known personality

to pay pickups for the pleasure of their companionship for the evening.

Lesbians have a problem in adjusting to a society that is condemning them for

being lesbians.

Many teenage lesbians are prostitutes and drug addicts.

There are countless number of mature women who seem to have found happiness

the love of another woman.

Many lesbians have their own special vocabulary.

The phrase coming out indicates a lesbian's sexual debut.

Being gay denotes female as well as male homosexuality.

A straight is a heterosexual and a swinger an object of admiration.

The following statistics were compiled from medical reports.

Society has a very great problem in its understanding of the desires and needs

of its unmarried women.

Dr. Freud stated, homosexuality in women, which is certainly not less

than in men, although much less glaring, has not only been ignored by the law,

but also by society.

Lesbians are not nearly as promiscuous as male homosexuals.

Their meetings with others is held in the strictest confidence.

The lesbian is on the constant lookout for a partner with whom she can live and

love in a so -called normal life.

Few lesbians find anything that resembles this life.

Some couples have stayed together for as long as four and five months.

It has been said that some have lived together for as long as ten years.

Many, of course, last but a few days or weeks.

And some dykes pride themselves on immediate conquests, derived out of one

-night stands, as this dyke is about to do.

Thank you.

There are a multiple number of factors responsible for the development of

lesbian patterns in women.

Family discord, alcoholic fathers, separations and divorces, neurotic and

psychopathic parents, sexually maladjusted parents, to mention a few.

Psychiatric examinations have shown that lesbians had fathers who were

psychopathic, alcoholic, or tyrannical.

Many fathers have often made the mistake of telling their daughters that they

wish they'd been born a boy instead of a girl.

In other cases, a growing daughter's attitude towards members of the opposite

sex may be influenced by the character of the father, especially if he proves

be a poor example of what they think a father should be like.

Some mothers are also responsible for the influence they cast over their

daughters. Some mothers instill a fear of sex within the daughter.

They refer to sex as something evil.

Of course, there are many cases where the daughter is further handicapped if

parents neglect to give her any sex education at all.

Being misinformed about the facts of sex is equally harmful.

There are many occupations that are conducive to the development of

This, however, is not meant to imply that most women engaged in a certain

profession are lesbians.

Lesbians, in many cases, choose an occupation which brings them into closer

contact with members of their own sex.

such as the theater, nightclub work, modeling, women's prison, secretaries,

so forth.

Many young girls of high school and college age find companionship among

own sex and often share the same rooms on campus.

Women are constantly striving to prove that they're equal to men and also are

fighting to be independent of them.

Today, women are found deeply involved in politics, medicine, sports.

Today's women are more career -minded and tend to shy away from the domestic

wants.

It is not uncommon to find a woman cab driver.

or bus driver.

In some countries where there's a shortage of men, women are in the armed

services and are doing the fighting and dying for their country.

Ads in newspapers and on television depict the women as inclined to smoking

drinking. This may be considered a form of psychic masculinity.

Women are sensitive and highly emotional creatures, and because of this are

easily frustrated.

If this frustration is caused by a man, a woman could become more susceptible to

lesbian advances.

Love and attention are important facets to a woman.

When they're deprived of love, they're apt to find refuge in the company of one

of their own sex.

Jealousy among lesbians is a common happening.

This is in keeping with their emotional immaturity.

Usually the aggressive lesbian becomes jealous of her feminine passive partner.

This jealousy is evident of the lesbian's sense of insecurity.

The following are actual statistics compiled from medical reports.

In noting that the lesbian is capable of a high degree of jealousy, it must also

be noted that there is a high rate of suicide among women, and this is

attributable to their homosexual desires.

The suicides are usually the result of the frustrations that are built up

the lesbian for her desire of another woman's love that is not always easily

obtainable. We will discuss this problem a little later.

Marriages are not uncommon among lesbians.

In her hope to establish some form of permanent relationship, the lesbian

attempts to simulate heterosexual marriage.

Rings are exchanged.

They draw up mutual wills favoring one another.

The wedding is held in an atmosphere resembling a heterosexual service.

The services are usually performed by a male, in many cases a homosexual

himself.

Guests are invited, dykes and their femmes.

The services are usually brief, in which they vow to love, honor, and cherish

one another until death.

The death usually represents the point where one lesbian leaves the other for

some other love.

The lesbian marriage life is usually a short one, lasting from one night to a

couple of weeks.

Some have been known to last for several months or even several years, but these

are the rare exceptions.

Aside from purely lesbian marriages, there are cases of marriages between

and homosexuals.

There are various arrangements which they agree upon before embarking on

marriage. In some cases, they decide to offer each other companionship, agreeing

not to attempt relations, each one retaining the right to do as he or she

pleases about their private sex life.

Marriages to homosexuals seldom succeed.

Where the marriage does survive, It is more the exception than the rule.

There are many cases where lesbians marry and stay married, even when the

marriage proves to be unsatisfactory.

It is not difficult for the lesbian, being the passive member of the

to stay indifferent.

Staying at home, she can make friends among other housewives without raising

suspicion.

Lesbians, the possessors of an abnormal jealousy over their femmes, sometimes

get very upset and sometimes get very violent.

when another dyke makes advances in the wrong direction.

The dyke will fight, in some cases to the death, for the affections of her

femme. The femme is always flattered over this show of affection and usually

encourages the dykes to fight.

Once committed to lesbianism, the lesbian seldom shows the same guilt

that the male homosexual shows.

The following are statistics compiled from medical journals.

Society has a very great problem in its understanding of the desires and needs

of its unmarried women.

Dr. Freud stated, homosexuality in women, which is certainly not less

than in men, although much less glaring, has not only been ignored by the law,

but also by society.

In a fashionable part of town, several dykes were getting together for the

purpose of planning a party.

This one would be a very special party, one that would bring new faces in and,

most of all, a coming out party for a new girl.

A girl makes her coming out only once in her life.

She'll be introduced to the other femmes and will meet the dykes.

In most of the cases, the new girl has only had very limited relations with a

lesbian and is looking for a closer association.

The new lesbians, as well as the older ones, are always on the lookout to find

somebody they could love or love them.

This is a struggle that never ends.

That homosexual components lie dormant in every woman and could, under certain

conditions, find release are substantiated by federal prison records.

The number of sex -starved women who submit to homosexual relations as a

of their confinement within prison walls is much greater than is supposed.

A fair percentage of all women inmates is made up of those who've been

apprehended by the police on charges of prostitution.

In other words, prostitutes who are deprived of their heterosexual relations

because of prison walls now give way to their hidden desire for homosexual

cravings, find themselves...

literally in a haven that is made up exclusively of members of their own sex.

The hostess of the affair was a woman in her late twenties who's been a dyke for

the last 16 years of her life.

Even when they think and live like men, lesbians for the most part generally

enjoy the chic look of womanhood.

Because her homosexuality is easily hidden, the lesbian mingles very

within the bounds of society.

But it is in affairs like these that the lesbian can relax and feel her true

self.

The guests arrive one at a time.

The hostess is very efficient.

It's all important to have everything running as smoothly as possible for the

convenience of the new girls coming in and for the dykes to be able to move

around and select a femme for themselves.

Parties of this nature are kept in the strictest secret. Fearing exposure, the

lesbian is often at the mercy of everyone.

At work, or wherever she may be, she's always susceptible to blackmail.

Discovery, in most cases, could mean instant ruin.

Lesbians have their variations from one group to another.

There are those women who are cultured and refined who sneak away to some dirty

bar in order to meet a trampish -looking woman to make love to.

Some women break up homes, forsake children for the love of another woman.

Then there are the teenage lesbians, or baby butch.

They roam big city streets in large gangs, assaulting everyone who falls

their path.

Some of the weapons that they use run the gamut of fists, lead pipes, chains.

Many of these girls eventually end up as alcoholics, drug addicts, and

prostitutes.

Regardless of what the lesbian does or where she goes, her life is a very

difficult one.

The lesbian must always be on the alert and avoid detection.

She, like her male counterpart, leads a very lonely and despairing life.

It is a fact that the suicide rate among male and female homosexuals is very

high.

A lesbian making her debut within her own society reacts as any other girl

when she's doing something for the first time and knowing that she'll be in the

spotlight and possibly the main attraction that evening.

The dyke is telling her how to behave in front of the others and how to act like

a femme.

Initiation rituals might vary from one affair to another.

At some affairs, the evening would be spent in drink and general talk.

While at some other affairs, it was quite different.

The bull dyke enters the affair, followed closely behind by the femme,

make her initiation into the daughters of Lesbos.

The butch and the femme are completely different in appearance, yet many

lesbians feel that this dissimilar role were easily interchangeable.

The fact remaining is that the butch of today could become the femme of

tomorrow.

When the reverse is often possible, records show that there have been many

butches who have actually become feminine in manner.

And some have apparently returned to normal femininity.

It is virtually impossible to tell how many lesbians there are in the country.

However, lesbian vacation paradises are well known to the more informed.

Fire Island.

the California beaches, the tropical islands of Jamaica.

On Long Island, they have the Hamptons. And the New York City set have Reese

Park. The international set always have Paris, Rome, Switzerland, to mention but

a few.

This gay party was worked out in a manner that would allow the guests to

mingle together, or singly as they chose, in an atmosphere of privacy.

These girls chose to develop a slow relationship before getting down to the

serious lovemaking that all were here for.

This type of play was a form of teasing, a way of stimulating their inner

senses.

The introduction room, as this place was called, would allow them the privacy

that was needed in order for them to play this game.

It was at times and places as this that the lesbian was allowed to feel her true

self without worry of detection.

It was here that she found her love and contentment.

The bull dyke was at her best when she was working to make a femme.

Not all bull dykes succeeded in their attempts, so the going had to be slow.

The ultimate conquest for the dyke would be to have the femme become dependent

on her.

In this case, the dyke would support his femme.

In a more literal sense of the word, the femme would become the mistress of the

dyke.

The dyke, as records show, are very dominant and possessive and extremely

jealous people.

The femme and her desire to break away from the grip of the dyke often found

this an almost impossible task.

A strange occurrence happens when a lesbian has to turn to prostitution in

to keep her female lover.

The Johns that normally pay $50 and $100 for the privilege of love would pay an

additional $50 to be with a lesbian.

The logic being that the men were highly stimulated to think that they were able

to draw a response from a woman who was known to be indifferent to men.

In prostituting herself to finance her woman lover, the lesbian finds it ironic

that it's a man's money that's paying for her pleasure with a woman.

Men unknowingly sometimes use lesbians as procurers for them.

And in many cases, the lesbian usually samples the girls before she turns them

over to the man.

It is not uncommon for a lesbian to do what she hates most, prostitute herself

to a man.

It is also not uncommon for a prostitute to turn in moments of despair and

loneliness to the warm, soft arms of another woman.

Many lesbians, as a rule, are heavy drinkers.

Some are alcoholics.

At parties such as this one, girls are trying to escape from reality and

drinking usually helps.

Young dykes will always try to get their femmes high on drinks.

They become more responsive with a few drinks in them.

These affairs as a rule take place on weekends.

so as to last for several days.

After the party is over, these girls will all go back to their daily jobs,

as clerks, secretaries, hostesses.

The lesbian looks upon her job as a means of contact with other girls.

Lesbians are always on the lookout for new recruits.

After a few drinks, the dyke has been able to get the young Deb in a receptive

frame of mind.

Being a new experience for the Deb, she's not sure what will happen to her.

Suspense and excitement are usually built up in her.

But she dares not say or ask anything, fearing that they might not want or

accept her as one of them.

So she's willing to wait it out and accept what comes.

After some drinking, the girls decide to split up, each couple going their own

way, each dyke...

planning what she will do with her property, the femme.

The kitchen is not an unfamiliar place.

It is the femme's duty to take care of the house, cook and wait on her lover,

the dyke.

Many lesbians have at one time or another been married, and for the love

another woman, forsaken their homes and families.

Some lesbians remain married to their male husbands, and when the opportunity

presents itself, leave home to go to their female lovers.

Though many lesbians marry and have children, others who never marry feel a

strong maternal void.

There are many sacrifices that a lesbian has to make, and one of them is the

fact that she can never bear children.

Lesbians, being women, pass through the childbearing years.

And even though she might carry on in lesbianic harmony, she often regrets

there are no children in her life.

The dyke is a very selfish person.

She's out to get all she can, and as often as she can.

The dyke often takes unjust advantage of the young femme.

After feeding her drinks all night, she becomes very receptive to the dyke's

suggestions and advances.

There have been cases where the inexperienced femme developed guilt

was ashamed of what she had done.

However, this is not always the usual case.

School girls of all ages are not immune to the society of the daughters of

lesbos Girls on many a college campus live together share each other's

talk about their dates discuss many mutual problems their likes and dislikes

They spend more time together than with anyone else.

Often these girls find consolation and sympathy within the warm touches of each

other. Some girls, after leaving school, also leave their lesbian loves behind.

Others continue in leading a life of a lesbian.

The dyke is always the dominant figure among lesbian groups on the school

campus. For as the saying goes, for every dyke who walks the earth, there is

femme for her.

Some girls freely talk about their lesbian habits, while others would

before admitting their lesbianism even to their closest friends.

Even among lesbians that they can trust.

Some never reveal openly what they really are.

Many lesbians don't want to think of themselves as lesbians.

During the course of the evening, the party had reached a peak.

The dykes had all assembled in the main conference room.

The purpose of the meeting was to reach a decision on what to do with the young

dead.

Each dyke had her own ideas of what the initiation test should be.

But only one suggestion would be used.

A vote was being taken on the suggestions.

And the straws were being drawn.

to see who would carry out the initiation as decided.

The dyke had sufficiently mellowed the young Deb for her ordeal. Still not

knowing what she was about to undergo, went willingly upstairs with the dyke.

The decision finally being reached, and the dyke to carry out the initiation

picked, they all left the room ready and eager to assist if necessary.

The dyke and the young Deb enter the bedroom, and the suspense begins for the

Deb.

The dyke is in no hurry.

She is all evening, and the Deb has no place to go.

At times like this, every dyke is out for herself.

She would like to be the first one to initiate this young girl.

It would give the dyke great satisfaction if she could be the first

The young Deb, realizing now what they've worked out for her, begins to

fear.

She tries to escape.

That doesn't work.

Desperately, she fights.

But the dice are too strong for her, and eventually she's overpowered.

Moldyke will now do her work.

The Dyke never feels remorse or shame for what she has done.

To her, it's another conquest, one to be remembered for a short time and then

forgotten.

Soon the party will be over and she'll return to the heterosexual world that

so violently rejects, a world that she must constantly be on the guard against,

a world and its male inhabitants she must pretend to accept.

A world that, if it discovered her true identity, would turn against her and

destroy her.

The path of a lesbian is truly a hard and lonely one.

A few, if any, ever find what they're searching for.

True love.

Someone that they can love and who will love them.

A love that will last them the rest of their natural lives.

Not all lesbians are masculine in appearance and personality.

Many of them are feminine, married and have children.

Their marriage is a cover -up for their lesbianism.

As long as human beings are interested in their own sexual satisfaction, there

will always be inverts.

The following are some important statistics in the study of lesbianism.

The problems of the male and female homosexual are of a complex nature.

There are answers to these problems.

And these answers can only be found through competent medical advice.

Society as a whole is responsible for this ever -increasing social problem.

It is therefore up to us to be understanding and forthright in our

help those in need of it.

Lesbians can be cured if they show a strong desire to be cured.

They cannot cure themselves entirely.

Sound medical treatment and advice is necessary to effect a permanent cure.

Medical authorities state that lesbianism is a symptom that affects the

personality.

Treatment is aimed at changing that personality structure.