The book jacket promises that this is an “explosive” book. Indeed it is, as Charles Socarides, long a champion and defender of the rights of homosexual people, now fires salvo after salvo at gay rightists and activists. Not content with having gained a measure of tolerance, acceptance, civil rights, freedom from discrimination and persecution, he writes, the homosexual rights movement is claiming the freedom to alter the basic design that man is to have good old-fashioned sex with woman, to reproduce and to form the basic, nuclear unit of society, the family. Instead comes the activists' assertion that all kinds of sexual relations are equal and acceptable, even that the gay way is better; they would like to see a gay world. “It is a freedom that goes too far because it undoes us all” (p. 14). Moreover, society cannot grant such a freedom. Socarides is appalled by such a threat. He can visualize a whole society, sufficiently propagandized, avoiding the entanglements and