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Dear Editor
To bed past midnight, I unwrapped the latest BJP and was startled, dismayed, flattered to discover myself solemnly designated a bad object for the psychotherapy readership. Next, however, it struck me as a bit rich to be abused as homophobic when I had been, way back when Taylor and McGuire were schoolboys if they were yet born, much involved in campaigning for homosexual law reform, well before Wolfenden.
What they find intolerable is anyone casting a clinical psychoanalytic eye on their sexuality and its purity, innocence and, above all, unquestionable health. Call it ‘same sex relations’ and there is nothing to puzzle about, or to make one stop and think and look deeper … let alone get worried and clinical! And whoever sees it otherwise is a benighted bastard who should be muzzled, censored, silenced - ‘unseemly in a learned journal’. Freud ran into this, of course, when he began to examine human sexuality, although political correctness had not yet been invented then nor had Freud-battering become an industry.
In fact, after dismissing my mild remark that most men turn to women sooner or later as a ‘crass generalization’ and omniscient pose, Taylor lumps my errors with Freud's - a compliment never paid to me before. He wouldn't be foaming at the mouth, you wouldn't be reading this, and I wouldn't be writing this if our Dads hadn't turned to our Mums. That's 3 out of 3 - 100% and very significant statistically. Yes, I insist omnisciently most men turn to women and therefore the planet is overpopulated.
Actually, by the time it appeared in print, numerous people had read my paper, among them homosexuals - one a psychotherapist, a few being patients, one the subject of the paper whose opinion I sought about it. It was years after the event and he wrote back, ‘That was me all right’, adding that he was now very different though somebody would probably identify him, which didn't matter if it helped others. With more therapy, he had become a family man with a