Homosexuality among Oxford undergradutes.
1. Figures are given for the incidence and persistence of homosexual trends and practices among 51 of 100 Oxford undergraduate psychiatric patients and 35 of 100 freshmen controls. In all these incidences, the patients significantly exceeded the controls. In 18 patients homosexuality was the main cause of breakdown.

2. Lack of heterosexual interest corresponded with homosexual interest in the patients but not the controls.

3. Ten patients, 27 controls showed “pattern 1” of homosexuality in which an adolescent phase of interest in or practice with co-evals occurred in subjects having more brothers than average or going to boarding schools. Their stability was relatively high. The patients were relatively mesomorphic but in severe conflict with their mothers : the controls were mesopenic and in less maternal conflict. They may be “facultative” homosexuals.

4. Forty-one patients, 8 controls displayed “pattern 2” wherein the greater the muscle lack, the worse the prognosis. Constitutional and dynamic factors appeared along a normal curve of distribution among the patients. The group consisted mainly of day pupils. The controls tended to be in the lower social grades. The patients tended to relations with older men more than the subjects of “pattern 1”.

5. Among the patients, at least 24 or 47 per cent. of all homosexuals were estimated to come into Kinsey gradings of 4 or more. In 14 the prognosis for “swing” over was considered dubious, in a further 10 definitely poor. Homosexuality was associated among the patients with suicidal attempts, gestures or urges. Psychotherapy was considered helpful in 5 patients.

6. The importance in these subjects of mesopenia and conflict with mother is stressed.

7. Lack of heterosexual interest was synonymous with homosexuality among the patients but not among the controls.