This paper is a sharp criticism of Kinsey's concept of the 'hetero-homosexual balance' which, in Bergler's opinion, is a superficial statistical evaluation of manifest data that completely ignores unconscious motivations. The report arrives at figures that are much too high and would make homosexuality appear a national disease. Kinsey's information was supplied by volunteers, and secondarily interested other volunteers who, consciously in good faith and inspired by noble intentions, unconsciously may have used their opportunity to prove that 'everybody' has homosexual tendencies, thus justifying their own trends. Kinsey may not have paid sufficient attention to the fact that neurotics