Dr. Bruce Rind's findings are likely to be cited by those seeking to liberalize law and social policy toward adults who have sexual relations with minors. The findings may provide adults who seek such relations with the mental "techniques of neutralization" that permit them to engage in such relations free from the moral reservations that might otherwise restrain them. Rind's study and the circumstances under which it was written raise a number of issues regarding the sociology of scientific knowledge, the history and explanation of legal change, and social policy particularly legal policy. Rind attributes the modern American moral panic concerning sexual relations between men and male youths to feminists. Feminist writings gave these relations relatively little attention by comparison with rape, pornography, incest, and sexual harassment on the street and in the workplace. From antiquity to the present, one of the arguments presented against homosexual relations has been that nonhuman animals do no. do it; consequently it is 'unnatural'.