<p>We may note that nearly five million crimes are reported in the United States each year, of which 87 percent are property crimes and the remainder are violent crimes. American adult males have significantly higher rates of arrests for criminal activity; they outnumber women by more than 6:1.</p>

<p>Jean MacFarlane et al., A Developmental Study of the Behavior Problems of Normal Children between Twenty-One Months and Thirteen Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954); L. Phillips, »Cultural versus Intrapsychic Factors in Childhood Behavior Problem Referrals« Journal of Clinical Psychology 12 (1956): 400-401; G. M. Gilbert, »A Survey of Referral Problems in Metropolitan Child Guidance Centers« Journal of Clinical Psychology 13 (1957): 37-42; D. R. Petersen, »Behavior Problems of Middle Childhood« Journal of Consulting Psychology 25 (1961): 205-209; L. M.

<p>Approximately 80 percent of the male and 76 percent of the female patients who stated a sex preference in requesting a therapist were assigned to therapists of the preferred sex.</p>

<p>There is a definite but not significant tendency toward homosexuality (both active and latent) in the group of men who requested female therapists. This almost suggests that preference for a female - either as an authority figure or as an expert mother figure - requires some break with the dominant sex-role stereotypes of our society.</p>

<p>This, as well as the significantly greater female preference for a male therapist, supports Goldberg's 1968 findings of female antifemale prejudice. See P. Goldberg, »Are Women Prejudiced against Women« Trans-Action, April 1968, pp. 28-30.</p>

<p>One wonders why women are not equally »embarrassed« about discussing their impotence (frigidity) with male therapists.</p>

<p>A study on the psychiatric »health« of the Manhattan Community conducted by Srole et al., 1962, found higher psychiatric »impairment« among single men when compared with married men, than among single women when compared with married women. Among married people the sexes did not differ in the proportions rated psychiatrically »impaired«.</p>

<p>M. A. Dayton, New Facts on Mental Disorders (Springfield, III.: Charles C. Thomas, 1940); E. Zigler and L. Phillips, »Social Effectiveness and Symptomatic Behaviors« Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology (1960), pp. 231-238; Maltzberg., op. cit.; Srole, et al, Mental Health in the Metropolis: Midtown Manhattan Study (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962).</p>

<p>Benjamin Maltzberg, »Important Statistical Data about Mental Illness« American Handbook of Psychiatry, Vol. I, ed. Silvano Arieti (New York: Basic Books, 1959).</p>

<p>»Reference Table on Patients in Mental Health Facilities, Age Sex and Diagnosis« U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Health Services and Mental Health Administration, United States, 1965, 1966, 1967. National statistics on »mental illness« are exceedingly troublesome. The data shown for the predominately male, VA psychiatric hospital represent a 100 percent projection based on a 30 percent random sampling of VA hospitals, whereas the data shown for all of the other facilities are raw data, based on the number of hospitals reporting for a given year.