quite properly value the high level of simple pleasure and enjoyment they share together, and under the influence of a prohibitionistic system they lack confidence that sexual feeling and celebrative attitudes can be kept in their own pocket through the inner resources of the personality. It is a system in which genuine sexual feeling automatically means at least the threat of promiscuity. Similarly celebrative attitudes cannot be walled off, but flow into addiction or delinquent patterns. This lack of confidence in inner resources follows the model which society has set up for heterosexual relationships, in which prohibition is the only reliable barrier to promiscuity. Male adequacy is equated with promiscuous impulses in a system where women are classified as sex objects unworthy of being partners in the building of zestful pleasure and enjoyment relationships. The only time mature men and women can safely make independently chosen relationships, with strong bonds of comradeship without promiscuous implications, is when one or the other is recognized to be homosexual. 57 The promiscuous implications of homosexual capacity are clearly apparent in the gay community. The way homosexuals meet others of their kind is too often dependent on street cruising or the use of gay bars and gay baths as meeting places. When an individual comes out of the closet he gives up the false struggle to deny the existence of feelings which he has often been familiar with for years, and faces the world with a new sense of honesty and courage in accepting