Sixty male overt homosexuals were examined with the help of a questionnaire about their family relationships and compared with a control group chosen at random from convalescent surgical patients. The homosexual persons seem clearly to prefer their mothers to their fathers. This favoring of the mother is taken as an indication of mother identification but the question of how identification arises from affection is not discussed. A case of D. Hamilton is quoted, a homosexual street walker who approached his prospective mate