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THE PERIOD FOLLOWING World War II, especially the sixties, produced a veritable flood of publications on various aspects of sexuality and homosexuality. A recently published annotated bibliography (Weinberg & Bell, 1972) contains 1,265 English-language titles of articles, books, doctoral theses, etc., on homosexuality written between 1940 and 1968. These have their source in a variety of disciplines—psychology, sociology, psychiatry, physiology, and anthropology; yet, as the editors of the volume state, the research pertaining to homosexuality lacks coordination; members of one discipline are frequently unaware of the research conducted in other disciplines and, at times, utilize material from another scientific field that is antiquated, primitive, or simply misunderstood.1 Weinberg