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For you, you pervert, you

Rarely has man been more cruel against man than in the condemnation and

punishment of those accused of the so-called sexual perversions. The

penalties have included imprisonment, torture, the loss of life or limb,

banishment, blackmail, social ostracism, the loss of social prestige,

renunciation by friends and families, the loss of position in school or in

business, severe penalties meted out for convictions of men serving in the

armed forces, public condemnation by emotionally insecure and vindictive

judges on the bench, and the torture endured by those who live in perpetual

fear that their non-conformant sexual behavior will be exposed to public

view. These are the penalties which have been imposed on and against

persons who have done no damage to the property or physical bodies of

others, but who have failed to adhere to the mandated custom. Such

cruelties have not often been matched, except in religious and racial

persecutions.

—Alfred Kinsey (1948)