Strange breed

Strange breed

189 pages

18 cm

Contested in the U.S.A and Canada by the National Organization for Decent Literature.

This book was listed as objectionable by the Rhode Island Commission to Encourage Morality in Youth

"A touching story of that breed of women who receive from each other what they cannot receive from men"

“Lesbianism, or female homosexuality, is quite widespread throughout the world . . .”

Dr. Edward Podolsky
State University of New York Medical College

“During treatment sessions with a homosexual person one becomes aware of how isolated, alone and apart from the mainstream of human activities this person finds herself . . .”

Dr. Nathan Blackman
Director, Psychiatric Division
Malcolm Bliss Hospital, St. Louis, Mo.

“Lesbians should be neither pitied nor ridiculed. They deserve only understanding and sympathy – especially from men. For, if there were fewer brutal bungling sexually inept and self-centered men, there would be far fewer Lesbians. Fantastic numbers of women become Lesbians because they seek and obtain – from other women the gentleness, tenderness and loving affection they have never received from men . . .”

Dr. J. S. Guttenplan
The Psychoanalytical Assistance Foundation
Los Angeles, California

Two women are on a bed, seemingly naked and partially covered with sheets. One, a redhead woman, is closest to the viewer and lies on her back, head toward the left of the image, with eyes closed, a smile, and her hands folded over her chest, under which a sheet covers the rest of her body. She seems to have both her knees bent. Her face is fully lit. The other woman, a brunette, is next to her in the background, her feet facing the opposite direction to that of the redhead's. Her torso is leaning on her elbows, which rest on her slightly bent knees. Her back faces the viewer in a three-quarter angle and is fully bare. A ray of light shines on it. Her legs are covered with a sheet from her hip down. Her face is bowed down with eyes open, also looking down. Her hair is partly tied up behind her nape. The scene is lit from the top right.