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This broadly conceived study of sex variants is sponsored by the Committee for the Study of Sex Variants. This Committee, of distinguished membership, undertakes to correlate the various scientific interests in the field of sex study and to serve as a scientific agency for the furtherance of research on sex variation. Dr.
Henry's study, in which he has the collaboration of specialists in the several pertinent medical fields, consists of clinical studies of forty male and forty female homosexual or bisexual subjects. These subjects voluntarily offered coöperation in the study, and include sexual deviants from all strata of society. Family histories and psychiatric interviews, recorded verbatim, in which 'a modified free association method's was used, were later supplemented by inquiries by a questionnaire method. All subjects were physically examined and pelvic examinations of the women were made. X-ray studies of head, chest and pelvis, photographs in the nude of some subjects offer data useful for endocrinological evaluations and morphological study. The semen of a number of the men and the effect of hormone therapy upon a few of them were studied.
The Terman and Miles 'Attitude and Interest Test', devised to show the psychological differences between men and women was given to most of the group. A large first volume is devoted to male subjects, the second to female subjects and to an appendix in which Dr. Henry's 'impressions' rather than conclusions are given together with the physical and anthropological data. A section on the gynecology of homosexuality, and a glossary covering the language of sexuality, conclude the work.
This is a study of first importance. Not being based on psychoanalytic studies, the psychological formulations are of somewhat general character, but the case histories present a rich and detailed material. The author states specifically that it has been his intention to 'state facts without personal bias' and he is most modest in