Last year I was asked to write a chapter for a new book designed to be a primer of psychotherapy for psychiatric residents and other mental health professionals. Each chapter was to deal with a particular kind of patient who might be seen in a clinical setting and my assignment was the treatment of patients with perversions and homosexuality. My work was favorably reviewed by several editors, but some had a question about the title of my chapter which was “Psychotherapy of Patients with Perversions and Homosexuality.” I was told that in today's climate it was not politically correct to imply that homosexuals were perverse and that I should recall the 1973 decision of the American Psychiatric Association