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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 189, 5 February 1943, Page 3

Sir,-Some day adults may be rid of their present sex-obsession, and our children be delivered from the awful dangers of being inoculated with it at an early age, by being initiated into Nature’s mysteries far too soon. "If only they knew, they’d cease to be curious" most assuredly does not apply to young children with regard to details of sex knowledge. In truth it does not apply to any knowledge. What one does not know, one may wish to know; but what one does know one seeks, if the knowledge is at all attractive, to put into practice. Do these well-meaning fools, who wish to have sex-instruction given promiscuously, altogether fail to realise that they would, if allowed to have their own way, bring into being even more promiscuous experimenters than we have now? All sorts of gruesome ideas were put abroad, a generation ‘or so ago, in the interests of "self and sex," most of them quite fallacious. Nature does not work out too badly if left alone. We "educated" moderns tend to interfere too much, to fuss too much, to worry too much. We trust neither Nature nor God. We imagine that unless we are busy on the job, in every direction, all the time, everything will go to pieces. Commonly, we do more harm than good by our well-meant interfer-

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(Cambridge).