THE FUTURE OF THE SEXES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2277, 17 May 1921, Page 1

THE FUTURE OF THE SEXES.

Lecturing to the Women’s Freedom League, Dr. Marie Slopes said the standard type of man and woman she would aim at would be “a manly man, and a woman who was strongly sexed and a truly feminine creature.” The present ideal of the Churches was a “weak, under-sexed. over-neurotie, over-intellectual and ascetic person.” That was most dangerous and anti-racial, and was nof Christian but Pauline. “We have been dominated too long,” she declared, “by this pseudo-Christi-anity of the Churches,'which is really pagan.” A clique of women imagined that the female sex was immensely superior to the male, that the. female sex was first in the world, and that the tendency of the future would lie a modification of' the male'sex. That may be a happy ideal for angels, but they were not discussing angels, but human beings. As for the sex war, one saw very little of this in real life. Nature never intended that there should he a sex war. The tendency of

normal, happy people was to jqye each other, but if we went on making people thoroughly neurotic and unhealthy there would be a sex war. Nature intended that there should be

more men than women in every age and every country, but although more boys were born, they died off because the mothers had not the strength to nurture them. The danger of the superfluous woman was absurd. The idea that every w»man should ge married and have children was at present impossible; Imt for every woman who was rearing children there must be at least two women to help her —if not direct ly, then indirectly, through teachers, laundresses, etc. For 10 to 1.5 years of a mother's life there must be unmarried women to help.-