Introduction and Title Page of The Homosexual Matrix- Revised Second Edition

Title: The Homosexual Matrix

Author: C. A. Tripp, Ph.D.
(Original Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York, 1975)
Publisher of Updated Second Edition:
New American Library, New York, 1987
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: HQ76.25.T75
This Computer Version Lists Updates on Each Relevant Page
Computer Date of this File: October 30, 1999

THE HOMOSEXUAL MATRIX: REVIEWS & PUBLIC COMMENTS

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"The product of ten years' in-depth research and thought by a

psychologist and sex researcher... With almost as much to say about
heterosexuality as homosexuality . . . Indubitably an important book,
THOROUGH, SURPRISING, STRONG, HUMANE . . . BOLD!"
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--Kirkus Reviews

"STUNNING! . . . THE MOST IMPORTANT THEORETICAL WORK ON

HOMOSEXUALITY SINCE HAVELOCK ELLIS' SEXUAL INVERSION
(1897)."
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--Martin Duberman
Distinguished Professor of History
Lehman College, CUNY

"A rare and readable blend of the practical and the theoretical, filled
with fresh and original insights, THE HOMOSEXUAL MATRIX provides the
crucial heterosexual context in which homosexuality must be understood."
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--Dr Frank Beach
Professor of Psychology
University of California at Berkeley

"EXTRAORDINARY . . . A WORK OF GREAT IMPORTANCE."

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--Newsday

"I am not inclined to superlatives, but I have found it the most

valuable book on the subject that has ever been published . . . I feel
much enlarged by having read it; it was filled with surprises, as good
books of any kind should be."
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--Merle Miller

"An important, momentous, inspiring piece of work . . . packed with

provocative and sensible ideas . . . "
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--The Humanist

"FILLED WITH A RICH, COMPLICATED, ABSORBING SEXUALITY, THE KIND

WE ALL LIVE WITH . . . THIS IS THE BEST BOOK ON HOMOSEXUALITY I
HAVE EVER READ."
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--Psychology Today

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Dr C. A. Tripp was a psychotherapist and sex researcher. He held a

doctorate in psychology and sociology from New York University. For nine
years he was closely associated with Dr Alfred Kinsey and the Institute
for Sex Research.

TITLE PAGE TO THE SECOND EDITION

HOMOSEXUAL M A T R I X
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With A New Preface & Expanded Notes By The Author

C. A. Tripp, Ph.D.É

A Meridian Book
New American Library

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

PREFACE
1. Popular and Historical Concepts of Sex
2. Biological Considerations
3. Inversion and Homosexuality
4. The Origins of Heterosexuality
5. The Origins of Homosexuality
6. Sex Techniques
7. The Social Shapes of Homosexuality
8. Brief Encounters and Ongoing Relationships
9. The Psychology of Effeminacy
10. The Politics of Homosexuality
11. The Question of Psychotherapy
12. Balancing the Equation
MISCELLANEA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX