Suppose a man is in his sixties and has an I. Q. in the genius range. Suppose he has been subject to homosexual tendencies since he was four years old. Suppose those tendencies have been particularly intense. Suppose that--although they have often had (and still often have) their way with him--those homosexual tendencies have always been accompanied by an equally intense hunger to be free of them. Suppose that hunger has been so great, that his struggle to be free of his homosexual tendencies has always been the primary immediate goal in his life. Finally, suppose that--in the course of his sixty year heroic struggle to be free of those markedly intense, homosexual tendencies--he has spent countless hours searching inwardly and outwardly for the knowledge, which would allow him to at least control, if not purge, those homosexual tendencies. Would it not be logical to expect such an individual to be one of the world's leading authorities on homosexuality?
Do you answer affirmatively? If you do, then it is quite right to say this: This is a book written by one of the world's leading authorities on homosexuality. After all, its author is precisely the kind of individual described in the above paragraph.
Of course, it should be acknowledged that this is not a book in the strictest sense. That's because the greater part, by far, of what follows is a series of letters written between the years of 1992 and this current year of 2000. The reader will have to judge for himself or herself whether that fact is a beneficial or detrimental one. Hopefully, it will be found to be wholly and entirely a beneficial one.
Up front, some readers should be warned: If you are a self-indulgent homosexual looking for someone to aid you in your efforts to convince yourself that there is nothing really harmful in your eager pursuit of homosexual "love," then this is not the place to look. On the other hand, if you are a self-restraining homosexual looking for someone to aid you in your efforts to find a reason to hope and to continue what perhaps strikes you as a futile flight from homosexual "love," then this is the place to look. It is also the place to look for all who are interested in hearing a leading authority describe his first-hand experiences regarding the nature and origins of homosexual desire.