Material derived from the study of one hundred fifty men diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenics is compared to that of one hundred fifty nonpsychotic male patients. The incidence of homosexual preoccupation, the sex of the persecutor being the same as that of the patient, and the presence of religious preoccupation were found to be statistically significantly higher in the paranoid group than in the control group. Only 26.7 percent of the paranoid group had delusions and hallucinations of sexual content. The authors feel that it is possible that the simultaneous trends of paranoia and homosexuality may be coincidental findings; they do not feel that the hypothesis of paranoid symptoms as a defense against latent homosexual impulses is verified by this study.