Wilma Freidman: Sorority Affair

Pee Wee's parents found the ten dollar bill in the boy's pockets, and knowing he did not make that much money-not at one time-running errands for the building's tenants, they questioned him as to how and where he had obtained such a large sum.

Fearing the wrath of his father-who was somewhat of a religious fanatic-Pee Wee blurted out the entire filthy story, placing full blame on Mary's shoulders. Sickened, the parents went directly to the authorities. Mary was arrested, of course, and went to jail, was sentenced to an indefinite period to the state mental institution for treatment.

Mary felt extreme guilt. Alter her husband's abrupt and sudden death, this guilt was intensified, magnified all out of proportion. Don't forget the arguments she had with him before he died and how often he told her in anger that she was only half a woman. This was a tremendous blow to Mary. After Raymond ‘had been killed, this half woman feeling became stark truth. Now Mary knew she was a failure as a human being, a failure in the eyes of her husband and in the eyes of society. Somehow she also rationalized that she had contributed in no small part to Raymond's death.

This intense feeling of guilt, this tremendous feeling of inadequacy-these her super ego could not stand. It had to do something… anything to escape that feeling of complete and total frustration. It could do only one thing: attack the situation. This it did by a perverse sort of rationalization which revealed itself in Mary's pedophilia. Her acts with children, perverted as they were, were really born not only of her sincere love for children-as ridiculous as it sounds-and her desire to have a child of her own-even though this desire was now deeply buried in the unconscious-but also of her flight of conscience to escape her feeling of guilt.

Then again, her super ego might have demanded retribution-punishment, humiliation and being degraded as by the young boy who urinated into her, mouth. Her perverted acts could have been the result of this punishment need, her super ego demanding her self-destruction. What better way to do it than with sex acts with children, feeling that eventually she would be caught!

Female homosexual pedophilia, in which the female homosexual prefers teen-agers and pre-teen children only for sexual use, is thought to be rather rare. But is it? After all, statisticians who draw straight lines from insufficient data to foregone conclusions prove not a thing! Some sexologists even are of the opinion that lesbians outnumber their male counterparts. Almost never do they come to the attention of the public, because of their natural tendency of greater caution-you seldom catch a lesbian cruising around a public washroom-plus the fact that a lesbian can indulge in her preferred perversion much easier than a male homosexual, without being noticed by the public at large. Two women can walk hand-in-hand on the street and no one is going to think anything about it, but just let two men try the same thing! Another factor in favor of the lesbian is the public's lack of knowledge about female homosexuality. What the average person thinks he knows about lesbianism… what he accepts as fact-he doesn't, and it isn't!

Like male homosexuals, lesbians can be divided into two groups: the active and the passive. But physical characteristics are not an indication of either group; appearance means nothing. Many a woman has been unjustly accused simply because she has a deep husky voice and a large-boned frame. Such a woman may be a very feminine creature, while the soft-looking dainty type of woman may be as queer as a five-headed calf!

Then again, the mannish-looking woman might be an active lesbian, and the demure, soft-looking woman might very well be an active passive homosexual, who delights in being forced into sex acts by the active female partner. To simplify the terms… active meazis the lesbian who takes the initiative. Passive refers to the wife, to the female homosexual who receives the action and attention.

A lesbian in her twenties might seek a sex partner in her middle teens, or a bull bitch in her forties might seek a girl in her late teens or middle thirties The catch is that age, as such, is not the first consideration, attractiveness-to the lesbian-of the younger women is.

However, a pedophiliac lesbian-while she does not consider age either, as the first and primary principle is always drawn to children… unable to accept sexual satisfaction with even a passive partner ten years younger-or more-than herself. She will pursue and seduce girls who are children, in every sense of the word. Girls who are nine, ten and eleven years old and even younger, including babies! Now and then she will seduce teenage girls, if adolescents are not available. And what she does to the child, the acts she commits, are the very same acts she would indulge in with an adult passive lesbian.

Let us examine a few of the terms as applied to lesbian activity.

First, cunnilingus is the preferred act of the majority of lesbians-the rubbing of the tongue and lips and mouth over the clitoris and vaginal opening of the sex partner, an action that can be either simultaneous or reciprocal. Cunnilingus is considered the natural act for homosexual women-according to Kinsey, who found that ninety-one percent of all lesbians practice cunnilingus.

Secondly, tribadism is next on the list, the reciprocal rubbing of the female genitalia, with the active lesbian acting out the part of the male-or husband role-to the passive lesbian who plays the woman's part.

Thirdly, mutual masturbation is also very common in lesbians, and some sexologists feel it is the most common of all lesbian acts, along with breast caressing and kissing and sucking with related diverse body kisses.

Finally we have coitus. Now, this sexual act may come as a surprise to a great deal of people, since a female cannot possibly penetrate another. But the lesbians who practice coitus use an instrument called a dildo. This artificial phallus is introduced into the passive lesbian's vagina, with the active lesbian working it in and out as if she were a male.

Cunnilingus and mutual masturbation are the acts usually preferred by the lesbian who is also a pedophile, as we shall see by the following cases.

One of the strangest to come to this writer's attention is that of an executive in a large advertising agency. This woman, aged fifty-three, whom we shall call Ellen, whose appearance was not masculine. Yet she did have a distinct drawback, insofar as men were concerned: she lacked fully developed breasts, her mammary glands having been dwarfed in childhood by a severe case of mumps. She was fairly attractive, although not pretty, and her figure was not at all unattractive. But her habits were definitely masculine. She smoked great black cigars, and she drank whiskey like a sailor.

Ellen's attraction to girls was not due to her inability to attract men, but because she was a lesbian.

She had always been attracted to girls, very young girls, as far back as she could remember, being particularly drawn to those who were undernourished children from the ghettos and slums. Ellen, playing the role of an idealistic do-gooder, would induce the parents to allow her to keep the girls at her home, telling them their children would be provided for in every respect. She never took in more than two girls at a time.

One of Ellen's motives was genuine kindness, for she was a compassionate and altruistic person; and for the benefit of the girl to whom she was in love with at the time, she was ready and willing to make any sacrifice.

Ellen usually took the girls to live with her in a mother-and-daughter relationship, but her relations with the girls were strictly of a homosexual nature. Mutual masturbation, deep mouth kisses and petting of the body were a daily occurrence, with the masturbation to relieve the girl of her nervousness. Ellen often resorted to cunnilingus. Strangely enough, these acts were not resented by any of the young girls she took in.