The two Senators who returned literature sent to them, and marked it “Refused.” The Senator who declined interviews on the ground that he “would not discuss this bill with any _woman_.” The Senator who evaded interviews for over two years, and who then vibrated between declaring that he would not “say a word previous to a public hearing,” and explaining his general fear of the whole question of birth control, and who wound up a hectic dissertation on the subject, with this remark: “If I were the Creator and were making the universe all over again, I would leave sex out. It is too powerful, too dangerous.” The Senator who said, “The whole subject is so damn nasty, I can’t bear to talk of it or even think of it.” The Senator who said “This bill is practically an invitation to lechery.” The Representative who construed it as a personal insult that a digest had been made from the autobiographies in the Congressional Directory showing the average number of children in the families of the members of Congress, and who confessed in the middle of a long tirade, that the reason Congress didn’t act on the bill, was that the members were “afraid of it.” The evidences of fear were found to be numerous and various but all of them seemed quite clearly due, directly or indirectly, to some form or other of distrust of human capacity to integrate this phase of sex knowledge into life, with safety, to morals or regard for decorum. These fears were almost wholly in regard to or on behalf of other people, not themselves; and the range of the fears covered their colleagues in Congress, their families, their constituents, the Catholics, the public in general, but most of all the young people. The high school girl who is guaranteed to go to the devil from learning what birth control information is, has been by all means the most vivid character in the whole realm of birth control phantasy. Judging by the extent of the expression of alarm felt on her behalf, it would seem as if she constituted about seven-eighths of the entire population. At any rate she has seemed to fill the whole horizon of many of the members of Congress. No such concern was expressed regarding the young boys.