PLATONIC FRIENDS
ADVICE AND PRECAUTIONS. LONDON, March 15. If you must have platonic friend ships, then read on and study the ad vice given at a lunch-hour address by Mrs Clare G'oslett, the hygiene lectured and member of the Royal Sanitary Institute, at Christchurch, Westmin. ster. She told her audience that if certain precautions are not takenj plattonic friendships can be very unwise and dangerous. In those friendships it is the woman who sets the standard, and if she allows sex to be introduced and they become ardent and passionate they are immediately spoiled. Great care should be taken to avoid platonic friendships with a married man, unless the,, man’s wife is included in the friendship. Discussing the question of who should pay for the amusements and expeditions, Mrs Goslett said that a girl should be careful not to allow a platonic friendship to destroy, a man’s chivalry. “I should allow a man to pay the first time, and then insist on sharing the expense of succeeding outings. “Platonic friends should always look after one another’s reputation.’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1933, Page 2
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