The author begins with a fine descriptive quotation from Somerset Maugham concerning homosexuals, scrutinizes it, and shows it to be superficial. It disregards the great inner conflict of the homosexual and takes at face value qualities that represent his basic defense mechanism: psychic masochism and the collecting of injustice. In the male infant destined to become a homosexual adult, the narcissistic wound of weaning is so greatly exaggerated that he dissociates himself from the disappointing female sex. The feminine identification reported is in reality only an imitation, a pseudo identification. Homosexuals should be neither prosecuted by the police nor considered normal. Homosexuality is an illness and it is curable.