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A type of practicing homosexual encountered fairly frequently differs from the 'normal' type in lack of a passive attitude. Instead, he is rather independent, headstrong, opinionated, and hard to influence. From early youth the woman is experienced as dangerous, domineering, and castrating. In the anamnesis the father-figure is missing in childhood, suggestively feminine behavior is present, strikingly high cultural standards are contrasted with crude, reckless homosexual practices, and there is a feeling of being 'out of it' with the social environment. A wide variety of abilities sometimes leading to too much versatility can result in failure of achievement. In the analytic relationship these patients show a somewhat irritating tendency to contradict, complain that they are not getting what they rightly deserve, and cannot easily tolerate the silent analyst who, like the father, gives them too little. Diagnostically they lie between perversion and obsessional neurosis. Prospects of heterosexuality are not good, but it is possible to achieve a happier life by smoother adaptation and better control of reckless behavior.